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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The headquarters for the U.S. military's Africom regional command will remain in Germany rather than move to Africa, because of reservations among Africans over its creation, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Vince Crawley, a spokesman for the Stuttgart, Germany-based command known as Africom, told The Associated Press that "the discussion of where we will place the headquarters has been so animated and apprehensive that it is getting in the way of our programs."
The Defense Department created Africa Command last October to consolidate operations that had been split among three other regional commands, none of which had Africa as a primary focus.
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