1:43 PM8/12/2019

STUTTGART, Germany – Army Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, addresses attendees of the AFRICOM Public Affairs Communicators Symposium, Aug. 2, 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. (Photos by Staff Sgt. Grady Jones, AFRICOM Public Affairs)

1:43 PM8/12/2019

STUTTGART, Germany – Air Force Lt. Gen. James Vechery, deputy commander, U.S. Africa Command, addresses attendees of the AFRICOM Public Affairs Communicators Symposium, July 31, 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. (Photos by Staff Sgt. Grady Jones, AFRICOM Public Affairs)

1:43 PM8/12/2019

STUTTGART, Germany – Air Force Col. Christopher Karns, director, Public Affairs and Communication Synchronization, U.S. Africa Command, addresses attendees of the AFRICOM Public Affairs Communicators Symposium, July 31, 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. (Photos by Staff Sgt. Grady Jones, AFRICOM Public Affairs)

1:43 PM8/12/2019

STUTTGART, Germany – Air Force Lt. Gen. James Vechery, deputy commander, U.S. Africa Command, addresses attendees of the AFRICOM Public Affairs Communicators Symposium, July 31, 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. (Photos by Staff Sgt. Grady Jones, AFRICOM Public Affairs)

2:09 PM8/8/2019

The new commander of the U.S. Africa Command Gen. Stephen J. Townsend visited Djibouti Aug. 6-8, 2019 to meet with Republic of Djibouti senior defense officials and to attend meetings at Camp Lemonnier.

10:25 PM8/7/2019

The commander of U.S. Africa Command visited Somalia on August 7 as part of his first trip to the African continent since taking command on July 26.

8:20 AM8/7/2019

AFRICOM held the second annual Multilateral Logistics Leader Seminar in Conakry, Guinea, from July 30-Aug. 2.

5:06 PM8/5/2019

5:09 PM7/30/2019

8:40 PM7/28/2019

In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike targeting ISIS terrorists in the Golis Mountain region, Somalia, on July 27, 2019.

4:46 PM7/26/2019

STUTTGART, Germany – Army Gen. Stephen J. Townsend assumed command of U.S. Africa Command from Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser during a change of command ceremony on Patch Barracks, July 26.

9:41 AM7/24/2019

Air advisors assigned to the 409th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron conducted training with the Nigerien Armed Forces (French language: Forces Armées Nigeriennes) members on how to clear a building July 10.

12:00 AM7/22/2019

A Somali Soldier assigned to the 3rd DANAB maintains a watchful eye during a short security halt a on patrol near the town of Wanla Weyn, Somalia, July 22, 2019. The U.S. maintains a whole-of-government approach to supporting Somalia through diplomacy, development and defense.

2:10 PM7/17/2019

The engineers, with the North Carolina National Guard’s 882nd Engineer Company, are using real world plumbing and constructions projects to enhance the facilities at the Thebephatshwa Airbase in Botswana.

1:21 PM7/9/2019

Major General Patrick J. Hermesmann assumed his duties as the incoming commander, receiving the headquarters' organizational colors from the outgoing commander, Maj. Gen. Russell A.C. Sanborn, at a ceremony on the Devil Dog Field at MARFOREUR/AF's Panzer Kaserne headquarters.

11:21 AM7/9/2019

Major General Patrick J. Hermesmann , the incoming commander of Marine Forces Europe and Africa, receives the organizational colors from Maj. Gen. Russell A.C. Sanborn, the outgoing commander, during the change of command ceremony on the Devil Dog Field on Panzer Kaserne in Boeblingen, Germany, July 9, 2019. Sanborn, who commanded MARFOREUR/AF since July 2017, presided over several initiatives that grew the headquarters as a dynamic warfighting institution, to include increasing NATO capacity for allied amphibious operations; enhanced naval and amphibious integration into plans, operations and exercises; the expansion of the Marine Corps cold-weather and mountain-warfare rotational training presence in Norway's high north; and responsibility for US forces participating in Exercise Trident Juncture 2018, the largest NATO military exercise since the end of the Cold War. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Menelik Collins/Released)

10:23 AM7/2/2019

AFRICOM held the HART event June 25-28, 2019, to train AFRICOM staff members on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief response.