The Foreign Service Journal, May 2008

M A Y 2 0 0 8 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 25 n Oct. 1, 2007, the United States Africa Command was established as a sub-unified mil- itary command, still subordinate to the European Command, which covers most of Africa. (The Central Command is responsible for U.S. military relations with the Horn, Egypt, Sudan and Kenya, while the Pacific Command covers activ- ities in the Indian Ocean islands.) Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, AFRICOM will become fully responsible for U.S. military relations with all 53 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by the end of the current fiscal year (Sept. 30, 2008). F O C U S O N A F R I C A I MPLEMENTING AFRICOM: T READ C AREFULLY T HE A FRICA C OMMAND REPRESENTS A REORIENTATION THAT WILL PROBABLY WORK WELL FOR US , BUT CONFUSE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS . B Y R OBERT E. G RIBBIN O Clemente Botelho