Mail & Guardian: US military stops launching drones from Ethiopia, but can still fly from Djibouti or Seychelles
By 2014 US troops were carrying out almost two operations, exercises, or activities somewhere in Africa every day.
THE US military has stopped flying drones from the southern Ethiopian town of Arba Minch, which they had used since 2011, a spokesman for the US Embassy in Ethiopia said.
The two countries agreed that a US presence in Arba Minch isn’t needed at the moment, the spokesman, David Kennedy, said in an e-mail on Saturday.
Ethiopia borders Somalia, whose government is battling Al Qaeda-aligned Islamic militants Al-Shabaab with the support of the international community.
Update #1: The US Is Ending Drone Operations In Ethiopia -- Newsy
Update #2: US drone base used to target Islamic extremists shut down in Ethiopia -- i24 News
Update #3: U.S. Military Stops Launching Drones From Ethiopia, Embassy Says -- Bloomberg
WNU Editor: There are other bases .... and more pressing problems to address .... for the U.S. to go to.
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Somalia -- another US-sponsored disater.
Ivan Eland
After corrupt, secular Somali warlords began to challenge Somali sharia-based Islamic judicial institutions, the Islamist Islamic Courts Union (ICU) paramilitary forces were created in 2005 to defend them. The ICU didn’t have that much popular support among Somalis until the CIA began funding the secular warlords in 2006. Experts cite CIA meddling as a factor in the resurgence of Islamist militias in Somalia, motivating them to launch successful pre-emptive strikes on the warlords. After what was called the second battle of Mogadishu in 2006 (the first resulted in US forces being expelled from Somalia in 1993 by Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid), the Islamist ICU grabbed control of Mogadishu and most of southern Somalia.
An invasion by neighboring Ethiopia in late 2006, with foreign support including that of the US government, overthrew the ICU.....
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