The United States plans to use Ghana as one of it's bases to boost its military presence in Africa to respond to new threats. Ghanaweb first reported this on the "Rumor Mill" page under the title: US To station 1000 Troops In Ghana .

In an article "Pentagon Moving Swiftly to Become 'GloboCop'", Interpress confirms Ghanaweb's story

The Pentagon is moving at seemingly breakneck speed to re-deploy U.S. forces and equipment around the world in ways that will permit Washington to play ''GoboCop,' according to a number of statements by top officials and defense planners.

While preparing sharp reductions in forces in Germany, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, military planners are talking about establishing semi-permanent or permanent bases along a giant swathe of global territory--increasingly referred to as 'the arc of instability'--from the Caribbean Basin through Africa to South and Central Asia and across to North Korea

The latest details, disclosed by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, include plans to increase U.S. forces in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa across the Red Sea from Yemen, set up semi-permanent 'forward bases' in Algeria, Morocco and possibly Tunisia, and establish smaller facilities in Senegal, Ghana and Mali that could be used to intervene in oil-rich West African countries, particularly Nigeria.