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AFRICOM Helps Partners Stand Up to Violent Extremism
7:59 AM10/24/2013
Citing progress in helping African partners countering violent extremist organizations, the commander of U.S. Africa Command said the terrorist attack last month at a mall in Nairobi, Kenya, actually shows that U.S. efforts and policies are working.
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Ethics Take Center Stage for Next Generation of African Security Sector Leaders Course
8:44 AM10/23/2013
Leadership, ethics, and Africa’s role in global security were among the topics discussed when nearly 60 professionals from 40 African nations met for the opening of the Next Generation of African Security Sector Leaders (NextGen) course October 21,
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Special-Purpose MAGTF Africa Completes Training Engagement with UPDF
8:34 AM10/22/2013
CAMP SINGO, Uganda - Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa 13.3 Marines and sailors recently finished a 10-week training engagement with Uganda People’s Defense Force soldiers in Camp Singo, Uganda, from July to September.
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AFRICOM Partners with Ghana to Build Capability at Disaster Management Workshop
1:14 PM10/21/2013
Members of the North Dakota Army National Guard and staff members at U.S. Africa Command are part of a training team that worked with the Ghanaian team in Accra to help develop and conduct Geographic Information System (GIS) training September
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Democratic Republic of Congo partners with U.S. to build capacity during Lion Rouge exercise
2:16 PM10/17/2013
Over 200 FARDC officers and NCOs attended these series of trainings in Kitona, Bas Congo, which included medical, civil military operations and judicial trainings
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Tanzanian People's Defense Force Naval Command, Police Force Maritime Receive New Communications System
11:22 AM10/17/2013
Ambassador Alfonso E. Lenhardt officially handed over the recently installed Maritime VHF Communications System to Dr. Emanuel
Nchimbi, Minister of Home Affairs, at an event held at the Tanzania Police
Force (TPF) Maritime Operation Center.
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Communications Training, Radio Upgrades Enhance AFL’s Operational Capability
12:41 PM10/16/2013
With a “Lima Charlie” response followed by an operational update from Armed Forces of Liberia soldiers deployed to Mali, the Headquarters AFL staff successfully employed a new radio communications system Sept 15, 2013.
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U.S. Army Africa Veterinarian Reviews South Sudan Program
7:00 AM10/16/2013
In August, a veterinarian with the U.S. Army Africa Surgeon’s Office, traveled to Juba, South Sudan, to assist in a review of a U. S. Department of State training program where Sudan People's Liberation Army medics receive three weeks of
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USARAF Soldiers Continue Women Integration Efforts in Africa
7:21 AM10/15/2013
U.S. Army Africa personnel traveled to Gaborone, Botswana and Windhoek, Namibia to recommend proposals to help integrate enlisted females in the Botswana and Namibia Defense Forces in a Woman’s Integration follow up Sept. 16 – 20.
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ACSS Hosts Roundtable on Counter-poaching and its Linkages to Transnational and Transregional Trafficking
10:19 AM10/9/2013
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies hosted a roundtable discussion on the topic with two guests, Mr. Marius Roos, a Colonel in the South African Army Reserve Force and managing director of Pathfinder Corporation, a South African private
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US, Ghana Combat Malnutrition with New Center
8:36 AM10/9/2013
The U.S. and Ghana are teaming up to ease hunger in the West Africa nation.
The project, a joint effort by U.S. Africa Command, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Embassy and the Ghanaian Ministry of Health, is designed to
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Africa Partnership Station Delivers School Supplies in Ghana
9:38 AM10/8/2013
Ghana is one of several countries throughout the western region of Africa where the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) is delivering school supplies to reinforce existing partnerships with African nations.
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Plans Finalized for Cutlass Express 2013
10:48 AM10/7/2013
Sailors and civilian maritime personnel from Europe, Africa and the U.S. finalized the schedule of events and associated objectives for Exercise Cutlass Express 2013 (CE13) during a final planning conference, Sept. 23-27.
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Congo Native Expands Horizons in the U.S. Military
7:11 AM10/7/2013
Born and raised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Staff Sgt. Alain Mukendi, an Aviano Airman Leadership School instructor, grew up speaking French along with three other African dialects. In 1999, his father won the Diversity Visa lottery,
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One Health Promotes Positive Changes in Uganda
8:34 AM10/4/2013
Uganda, the Pearl of Africa, is a lush, green, mountainous country home to 34.1 million people. The people who live there share the land with mountain gorillas, zebras, rhinos, and other wildlife and domesticated animals.
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Successful Senegal Engagement for APS 13
7:27 AM10/2/2013
A landing craft unit carrying dozens of international military forces dropped its gate off the sands of Senegal. The U.S. led the charge and stormed the beach like a wave crashing against the shores. They leaped off the ramp two by two, each
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MSAS, AFAFRICA, Share Ideas with Angolan Air Force
12:20 PM10/1/2013
U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Air Forces Africa worked together with a 621st Contingency Response Wing traveling contact team to conduct a building partnership engagement in Luanda, Angola, from Sept. 9 to 13.
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Ghana Looks to USAFE-AFAFRICA for PME Model
8:53 AM9/30/2013
A team of Ghanaian airmen visited professional military education facilities here in Germany to take back best practices to their air force headquarters.
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First Team Brothers-in-arms Provide Medical Outreach in Nigeria
12:33 PM9/27/2013
Col. (Dr.) Niel Johnson, a Family medicine physician and command surgeon, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, could have spent his yearly vacation performing with his barbershop quartet group this winter at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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U.S. Army Africa Sponsors African Deployment Partnership Training in Benin
9:32 AM9/26/2013
For Capt. Brad Copas, his assignment as a coordinator of African Deployment Partnership Training known as ADAPT for U.S. Army Africa has taken him to numerous nations on the African continent.
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