Babacar Gaye, U.N. military adviser for peacekeeping operations, has taken over temporary command of the supervision mission.

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Increasingly, indeed, after the one-year period (October, 2007 to October, 2008) during which the African Command will remain based in Stuttgart, Germany under the temporary gaze of EUCOM, it seems likely that AFRICOM headquarters will be placed in an African location.

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