The US has deployed more than 1,500 troops in at least five African countries. A large number are in Niger, where four US special forces soldiers died in an ambush last week. RT America’s Ashlee Banks asks Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, if the US is conducting a growing shadow war on the continent.
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