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Aired on June 28, 2007
Ungoverned spaces." Two words you are going to be hearing a whole lot more in coming months. Andre Hollis used them to describe the drug producing regions of Colombia and Afghanistan. But the new frontier is Africa where the phrase has already been used to justify American military intervention.
The U.S. needs oil. And Africa has it. Lots of it. It's in this context that the Bush administration has announced a new central command for its military presence in Africa called AFRICA COMMAND (AFRICOM).
But you won't hear talk about Africa's energy resources. Instead boots on the ground will be all about the threat posed by terrorists in "ungoverned spaces." That was the precisely the rationale used when U.S. special forces helped Ethiopia invade Somalia late last year.
To talk more about the doctrine and its wider implications for Africa , Avi is joined by Salim Lone, a 21-year veteran of the UN system. His last post was as head of Communications for the UN Mission in Iraq.
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