Foreign
By Kennedy Nnamani
THE U.S. Africa Command speaks on its largest and premier annual exercise involving more than 7,500 service members.
In a virtual press briefing yesterday, Major General Andrew M. Rohling, Commander of U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, noted that the exercise “represents a strategic commitment to African regional stability by the United States and our partners.”
According to him, African Lion 22 is a multinational, multidomain, large-scale global exercise which involves across four host nations: Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Senegal, with 10 allied and partner nations.
“African Lion 22 provides realistic, dynamic, collaborative readiness training in an austere environment along the intersection of two continents and multiple international boundaries and maritime trading routes,” he said.
General Rohling added that African Lion 22 this year has been providing opportunities for over 7,000 U.S. and partner forces and provides shoulder-to-shoulder training opportunities with U.S. forces to achieve multinational, long-term readiness and interoperability objectives for both the United States and its partners.
This annual exercise, which is known as African Lion 22 began this year on June 6 and will run through June 30 in four countries: Morocco, Ghana, Senegal, and Tunisia. However, militaries from Brazil, Chad, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom joined the U.S. and host nation troops.
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