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While the United States has been paying attention to the Middle East, China just went into

went into Africa and said, hey, here's $30 billion. We would like to put a pipeline from juba all the way across to Mombasa. Is that okay with you guys?

We don't care how you spend it. We don't give any issues to anyone about how they spent their

money. We just don't want you to attack our pipeline. And of course these

these pseudo-dictators and even dictators themselves take this money, spend it how they want. You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing on the stories behind the front lines. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm your host Matthew Galt. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria.

These are the places we think of when we think of America's global war on terror,

but the war is global. It's right there in the title. And Africa is increasingly

one of the fronts in that war, but it's one that we don't know much about. Here to help us understand

that war is retired Green Bereed Derek Gannon.

Gannon is a veteran of the Global War on Terror and a journalist who covers the war in the Horn of Africa for soft rep.

Derek, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me. All right so I want to start off

with a new story from last October. Green Berea Sergeant First Class Zachary Banister

died while on duty in Kenya and though his death was not combat related it's still special operations

forces soldier deployed in Kenya so my first question for you Derek is why was

there a green Bere in Kenya?

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