US to infiltrate into Africa with Ebola

A political commentator says Washington’s plan to send troops to West Africa for Ebola is to further infiltrate into the African states with the US military presence.

The United States on Monday announced that it will expand its response to the Ebola crisis in Africa by assigning 3,000 military personnel to the afflicted region.

Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire, told Press TV in a phone interview on Tuesday that the situation “does not require a militarized response.”

“We feel that this is just another effort to further infiltrate these various African states with the US military presence. All of the impacted countries in West Africa already have US military involvement within their borders. Liberia is one, also Sierra Leone, Guinea, Conakry has also had some US military involvement,” Azikiwe said.

“What the situation requires is a scientific assessment of the extent of the problem. A plan on how to arrest and eventually eradicate the virus and its impact,” he said.

“So I don’t think that it’s a question of military response to a medical problem, that the response should be medical, social and also scientific.”

Azikiwe said the United States can have a role in containing this outbreak, “but the character of the role of the United States has to be monitored, it has to be evaluated on the part of those within the United States who are opposed to US military intervention.”

He also mentioned Cuba’s initiative as a “correct” response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

“Contrasting the role of the United States in West Africa in response to the Ebola virus that is the efforts on the part of the Cuban government where they were going to send over one thousand medical personnel into West Africa to address the crisis.”
 
“Cuba’s relationship with Africa has been much more cooperative and much more progressive and supportive. And I think that countries around the world need to follow Cuba’s lead,” he said.

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