PENTAGON (Halbeeg News)-US military plans to develop land-based supply routes from the main American military base to other subsidiaries in the region, US-based online portal reported.
According to Foreign Policy, the U.S. Defense Department is in the early stages of a project to develop land-based supply routes from Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, to other U.S. camps across the eastern part of the continent.
The portal reports that the first part of the trail is intended to link Lemonnier to Baledogle, the U.S. camp in Somalia.
Contractors who involved in the project told the portal that the passage traverses areas controlled by Al-Shabaab.
The route will be extended to other areas, and it might be included part of a broader American approach to countering China in places across the continent where the U.S. has vital interests, including the strategic Horn of Africa, though one former official said logistical considerations more likely drive the plan.
U.S. military personnel usually make the 60-mile trip from the Mogadishu International Airport complex—which acts as the base for most internationals—to Baledogle in a helicopter.
The project falls under the purview of the Virginia-based defence contractor Pacific Architects and Engineers, one of a few companies that support the United States African Command (the body also known as Africom that oversees U.S. military operations in Africa) in Somalia.
Pacific Architects and Engineers have invested in Africom’s work in Somalia that ended in January, and now it opened up a new subsidiary, the Mogadishu-based Africa Expeditionary Services.
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