Africcom Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/africcom/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Africcom Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/africcom/ 32 32 Washington uses air power to fight militants in Africa https://jjcornish.com/2017/11/washington-uses-air-power-fight-militants-africa/ Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/11/washington-uses-air-power-fight-militants-africa/ Washington’s  using its air power in the fight against militant groups in Africa. US Air Force planes twice struck so-called Islamic State terrorists in Libya at the weekend. Yesterday, US drones hit an Al Shabaab training base in Somalia. Africom spokesman Lieutenant Commander Anthony Falvo says the US drones killed more than 100 Al Shabaab […]

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]]> Washington’s  using its air power in the fight against militant groups in Africa.

US Air Force planes twice struck so-called Islamic State terrorists in Libya at the weekend.

Yesterday, US drones hit an Al Shabaab training base in Somalia.

Africom spokesman Lieutenant Commander Anthony Falvo says the US drones killed more than 100 Al Shabaab fighters in the Bay region north west of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

He said in Libya the US planes straffed  so-called Islamic State position in Fuqaha.

The militants have seized control of ousted dictator Muammar Gadaffi’s capital of Sirte along the coast from Tripoli and imposed their strict fundamentalist law on the local population.

The strikes were carried out in collaboration with the Libyan government forces.

 

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