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NCIS Port Security Exchange with Mozambicans Held on HSV 2
12:00 AM6/18/2012
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) personnel embarked on board High Speed Vessel Swift (HSV 2) shared port security tactics and training with civilian and military members from Mozambique, graduating eight students June 14, 2012, during an
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MCAT 112 Connects Two Continents
12:00 AM6/18/2012
Projected on a white wall of the Kenyan schoolhouse was a live video feed of American high school students in their classroom. A Kenyan student walked to the camera and started to converse with a girl her age on a different continent.
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U.S. Navy Maritime Civil Affairs Team Connects Students in Two Continents
12:00 AM6/18/2012
Projected on a white wall of the Kenyan schoolhouse was a live video feed of American high school students in their classroom. A Kenyan student walked to the camera and started to converse with a girl her age on a different continent.
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U.S. Navy Personnel Help Kenyans Invest in the Future
12:00 AM6/18/2012
Members of Maritime Civil Affairs Team 112, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, celebrated World Environment Day with their east Africa partners in Kenya. MCAT 112 and other U.S. and African organizations planted nearly 600 Casuarina tree
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U.S. Bets on Bright Future for Africa, Clinton Says
12:00 AM6/15/2012
Speaking before an audience of young Africans pursuing success in many career fields, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laid down a bet June 13, 2012.
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Sierra Leone Troops Complete Deployment Training
12:00 AM6/15/2012
Nearly 1,000 Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) personnel completed training for an upcoming African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) deployment, in May 2012.
U.S. Army Africa Commander, Major General David R. Hogg and
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US Navy Personnel Help Kenyans Invest in the Future
12:00 AM6/15/2012
Members of Maritime Civil Affairs Team 112, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, celebrated World Environment Day with their east Africa partners in Kenya. MCAT 112 and other U.S. and African organizations planted nearly 600 Casuarina tree
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FACT SHEET: The New Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa
12:00 AM6/15/2012
On June 14, 2012, the White House announced a new U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa that provides a proactive and forward looking vision grounded in partnership. The new strategy sets forth four strategic objectives, as described below, and
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Army Birthday message from CJTF-HOA
12:00 AM6/14/2012
On June 14th, 237 years ago, the Continental Army was established, beginning a tremendous legacy of successfully defending our great nation. Since our beginnings we have had the finest soldiers in the world. Soldiers who made tremendous sacrifices
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New Malaria Task Forces Will Address Top Africa Killer
12:00 AM6/14/2012
Two new task forces being stood up by U.S. Africa Command have set their sights on one of the biggest killers on the continent: the mosquito.
Malaria -- that same affliction that decimated Roman legions, Revolutionary War and Civil War
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Ugandan Students Participate in 448th Civil Affairs Battalion Veterinary Program
12:00 AM6/14/2012
Forty Ugandan students came together to attend a two-week Veterinary Civic Action Program training session in Matany, Uganda, April 24, 2012, organized by the U.S. Army 448th Civil Affairs Battalion.
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AFRICOM Will Maintain;Light Footprint; in Africa
12:00 AM6/13/2012
The United States has no plans to seek permanent bases in Africa, and, in the spirit of the new defense strategic guidance, will continue to maintain a "light footprint" on the continent, the top U.S. Africa Command officer said.
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Priorities Set U.S. Africa Command's Agenda
12:00 AM6/12/2012
After a year of significant change sweeping the African continent -- a wave of democratic movements, the emergence of South Sudan as the world's newest nation and an increase in violent extremism, among them -- U.S. Africa Command is using the
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U.S. Increases Emergency Assistance for West Africa
12:00 AM6/11/2012
The United States is providing more than $81 million in additional humanitarian assistance as the lean season begins in the drought-affected Sahel region of West Africa.
With this additional contribution, the U.S. government is
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U.S. Army Africa Commander Speaks at Vicenza Security Conference
12:00 AM6/11/2012
Major General David R. Hogg, commander of U.S. Army Africa, was a featured speaker at the September 11 Cultural Association's day-long seminar on Mediterranean security, at the Vicenza Centro Congressi Confartigianato, in May 2012.
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U.S. Army Civil Affairs Battalion Conducts VETCAP in Ethiopia
12:00 AM6/11/2012
Partnering with Babile's veterinarian team, members of the U.S. Army 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, participated in a Veterinary Civic Action Program (VETCAP) in Babile, Ethiopia, May 21 - June 1,
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German Dignitaries Visit CJTF-HOA, Camp Lemonnier Chaplains
12:00 AM6/11/2012
A photo essay by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Lael Huss
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US Navy Facilitates Kenyan Basic Sea Survival Instructor Course
12:00 AM6/7/2012
Caleb Otino, a local member of the Kenyan Red Cross, said that many of his friends have perished in the Kenyan coastal waters while fishing. His reason behind the loss of life: lack of water survival training. Otino said he wanted to change
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Governance, Security Among Areas of U.S.-Nigerian Cooperation
12:00 AM6/7/2012
Calling Nigeria "one of our most important strategic partners," senior U.S. officials met with Nigeria's foreign minister, Olegbenga Ashiru, and other Nigerian officials June 4-5, 2012 for the seventh gathering of the U.S.-Nigeria
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HSV Swift Departs South Africa
12:00 AM6/7/2012
The High-Speed Vessel Swift (HSV 2) departed Durban, South Africa, concluding a two-week theater security cooperation visit to the area, June 7, 2012.
Durban is the 3rd and final stop Swift has made to South Africa in support of its
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