Stuttgart  - Africom, the new US military command for operations in Africa, is to remain in the German city of Stuttgart after no African nation offered to host it, a German newspaper was set to report Wednesday.

US President George W. Bush announced the formation of the command in February 2007, saying it would coordinate all US military activity in Africa and be based in Africa. It is set to become fully operational from October this year

Vince Crawley, Africom spokesman, was quoted by the Stuttgarter Zeitung as saying, "It'll stay in Stuttgart for the foreseeable future." Africom is being split off from the US European Command (Eucom), also hosted by Stuttgart. (dpa)