It is now official: with the active fighting being carried out by French forces in Mali and the kidnap of Westerners in Algeria, the war on terror, if it may be called that, has now moved from the rocky mountains of central Asia to the deserts of Africa. A series of events have led to this point: the killing of Americans in Benghazi, the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria, the rise of Islamists in Somalia. Now it seems that Islamists are turning the deserts of Africa into their base. Africom now has its work cut out.
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