President George W. Bush has approved a Pentagon plan to create a new military command for operations in Africa to co-ordinate action and counter potential threats from the continent, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
"This command will enable us to have a more effective and integrated approach than the current arrangement of dividing Africa between Central Command and European Command - an outdated arrangement left over from the Cold War," Gates told a congressional panel.
The US military assigns responsibility for specific parts of the world to regional commands, such as Central Command, which handles the Middle East, Central Asia and Horn of Africa.
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