sub-Saharan Africa

The peasantry is to be “protected” through the establishment of “customary land reserves” in the vicinity of the White Afrikaner commercial farms. The rural people will be caged into small territorial enclaves (“communal lands”) while the best agricultural land will be sold or leased to private investors.
Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.
The objectives of the US military presence in Africa are well documented: counter Chinese influence and control strategic locations and natural resources including oil reserves. This was confirmed more than 8 years ago by the US State Department

Somalia has been the focus of oil and natural gas exploration. This coupled with its geographically strategic location on the Indian Ocean and near the Gulf of Aden, which is one of the most lucrative shipping lanes in the world,

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Mali’s Tuareg-Uranium Conspiracy By Moeen Raoof, January 13, 2013
The “War On Terror” Spreads to Africa: U.S. Sending Troops to 35 African Nations By Washington's Blog, January 12, 2013
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The Balkanization of Sudan: The Redrawing of the Middle East and North Africa By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, January 02, 2013
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Workers’ Rights in South Africa: Does the Ruling ANC Party Represent the People? By Eric Draitser, December 27, 2012
Global Warfare: US Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries By RT, December 25, 2012
16 Years of U.S. Genocide in Congo By Glen Ford, December 13, 2012
Four More Years: Into Africa By Conn Hallinan, November 26, 2012
Congo: Goma Falls to Rwanda By Justin Podur, November 26, 2012
Humanitarian Coverup: Why is Obama Silent Over the New Congo War? By Shamus Cooke, November 26, 2012
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America’s Secret War in Africa By Julie Lévesque, October 13, 2012
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South Africa’s Ruling ANC Party: Where is the Left? By Global Research News, October 09, 2012
False Solution to Hunger in Africa By Friends of the Earth International, September 25, 2012
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Congo: Rwandan Army Withdrawal A Farce By Stop NATO, September 12, 2012
South Africa Robbed of Its Independence By Danny Schechter, September 09, 2012
The Marikana Massacre and the South African State’s Low Intensity War Against the People By Vishwas Satgar, September 05, 2012
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What Went Wrong At Marikana? by Alex Lichtenstein By Global Research and Global Research, September 02, 2012
Globalization of War: WWIII Roadmap ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham, August 30, 2012
With “Friends” like these… : America’s “Contact Group Industry” is Overthrowing Governments By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, August 28, 2012
Economic and Social Crisis in Post Apartheid South Africa By William Bowles, August 26, 2012
South African miners defiant in face of government, company threats By Bill Van Auken, August 21, 2012
History of South Africa’s Cheap Labour Economy: The 1946 Miners Strike and the Marikana Massacre By Chris Webb, August 21, 2012
War in the Congo: Children, young men flee M23 recruitment By Global Research, August 18, 2012
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The Scramble for Africa: Another U.S. Battleground To Challenge, Supplant China By Boris Volkhonsky, August 08, 2012
Sudan: Protests and the Politics of Regime Change By Eric Draitser, July 19, 2012
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US Drone Strikes: Part of a Strategy of Global Warfare? By Global Research, June 30, 2012
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Exiled Rwandan General accuses Kagame of having ordered the killing that triggered the 1994 genocide By Donna Bryson, June 22, 2012
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Libya: New AFRICOM And NATO Beachhead In Africa By Rick Rozoff, June 17, 2012
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