The Armed Services committee didn’t know, Niger government officials didn’t know. What you don’t know will hurt you.

Africa will be so much safer now that the US is there.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/18/niger-air-base-201-africom-drones/

“I was surprised to learn that Americans had died in the Tongo Tongo attack,” Soumana Sanda, the leader of an opposition party in the Nigerien Parliament and taekwondo champion, told me in an interview in his pristine and sparsely decorated office in Niamey, the country’s quiet capital on the banks of the Niger River. “That was the moment I found out, as a Nigerien, as a member of parliament, as a representative of the people, that there is indeed (an American) base with ground operations.” Read the rest of this entry »