africa: Bigger US presence in Africa?

The United States plans to boost its military presence in Africa to respond to new threats, Nato's supreme commander of allied forces in Europe, General Jim Jones, said on Monday. "We might wish to have more presence in the southern rim of the Mediterranean, where there are a certain number of countries that can be destabilised in the near future, large ungoverned areas across Africa that are clearly the new routes of narco trafficking, terrorists training and hotbeds of instability," Jones said. He also spoke of "potential threats to the Alliance and our interests."