The Pentagon has created a new Africa Command to help monitor the area more closely and train local government forces.

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From a hidden command post, police will monitor images of the city, using images from 500 cameras, officials said.

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We upped the ante in December when we opened the doors to our Social Media Listening Command Center, which allows us to monitor over 22, 000 daily posts related to Dell as well as mentions on Twitter using the analytics tool Radian6.

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