West African leaders warn it would be a ‘mistake’ to cut back US troops in Africa

U.S. Africa Command says that there are approximately 6,000 Department of Defense personnel in Africa, but those numbers could go down following a review the Pentagon is executing to reexamine U.S. troop presence in multiple areas of operations.
— Read on www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-military/2020/01/21/west-african-leaders-warn-it-would-be-a-mistake-to-cut-back-us-troops-in-africa/

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But Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has stressed that China is the Pentagon’s top priority.

Trump’s Davos speech instantly shot down by leading economist: ‘The characterisation of the economy is totally wrong’

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has given a withering assessment of Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum and said the president has misrepresented the economy and failed to address the problem of climate change.
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-speech-davos-2020-greta-thunberg-wef-economy-a9294466.html