NATO: AFRICOM's Partner in Military Penetration of Africa http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/72692

"In 1884, the major European powers gathered at the Berlin Conference to divide up those parts of Africa that had escaped colonization and to create a consortium to dominate and exploit an entire continent and its peoples...The anti-colonial struggles after the Second World War put an end to that enforced order, but 126 years later there are ominous indications that the former colonial masters are nostalgic for their past power."

comment-also see... Obama's national security policy towards Africa: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/61614   Obama and US policy towards Africa http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/53257