<div class='node-body'><p>The US military and intelligence apparatus, with the help of private military contractors, has been quietly generating a vast spying network across Africa, building a series of airstrips and outposts and operating a fleet of retrofitted planes for surveillance missions across the continent, reports the Washington Post.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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