Black Alliance For Peace (BAP) is running a campaign to expose U.S. imperialism on the African continent and they aim to shut down AFRICOM.

AFRICOM, short for AFRICA COMMAND, is one of ten combatant commands managed by the Pentagon. The Pentagon feels it has the right, or should we say Manifest Destiny, to divide the world up into regional commands in which they control military operations. Since the establishment of AFRICOM in 2008, there has been a 2,000 percent increase of U.S. military presence and operations on the continent.

Read the full article at The Peace Report.

Netfa Freeman is the events coordinator at the Institute for Policy Studies.

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