About African Lion

African Lion 25 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, annual exercise, hosted across Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia. This joint, all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise includes more than 10,000 participants from more than twenty nations, including contingents from NATO. African Lion aims to strengthen interoperability among participants and build readiness to respond to crises and contingencies in Africa and around the world.

The exercise will include a command post exercise, field training exercises, a live-fire demonstration, and humanitarian civic assistance program events. Additionally, humanitarian civic assistance missions will feature a combination of medical, dental and veterinary assistance and exchanges across Morocco, Ghana and Senegal. 

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B:Roll: US, Tunisia conduct precision explosive ordnance destruction at African Lion 2025
U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa
April 25, 2025 | 1:19
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 759th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Company, 3rd EOD Battalion, 71st EOD Group, 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, and the Tunisian Armed Forces train together on the EOD range at Bizerte, Tunisia, April 22, 2025. AL25 is set to be the largest annual military exercise in Africa, bringing together over 40 nations, including seven NATO allies and 10,000 troops to conduct realistic, dynamic and collaborative training in an austere environment that intersects multiple geographic and functional combatant commands. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) on behalf of the U.S. Africa Command, AL25 takes place from April 14 to May 23, 2025, across Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia. This large-scale exercise will enhance our ability to work together in complex, multi-domain operations—preparing forces to deploy, fight and win. (U.S. Army video by Staff Sgt. Brian Jones)

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(00:00:00) LONG SHOT: U.S. Soldiers and Tunisian Armed Forces prepare for EOD training
(00:00:14) LONG SHOT: U.S. Soldiers and Tunisian Armed Forces walk down the EOD lane
(00:00:29) MEDIUM SHOT: U.S. Soldier explains the usage of breaching around together with Arabic translator for Tunisian Armed Forces
(00:00:56) CLOSE SHOT: U.S. Soldier explains the EOD destruction technique
(00:01:16) MEDIUM SHOT: U.S. Soldier and Tunisian Armed Forces set up a detonation together.
(00:01:34) A plank used for a brazier charge
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