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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Video by Senior Airman Andrew Kobialka
Djibouti, U.S., U.N. assist people of Djibouti recover from COVID-19 pandemic economic impacts
Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa
Dec. 31, 2021 | 2:00
Sitani Abdoulkader, Rising Djibouti entrepreneur, shares her experience learning business and craft skills through a whole of government initiative in Djibouti City, Djibouti, Dec. 31, 2021. The governments of Djibouti and the United States partner with the United Nations Development Program to develop sustainable solutions that assist the people of Djibouti in recovery from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The partnership provides young Djiboutian women with the training, equipment, and materials to start marketing pottery. Djiboutian-made pottery is a promising growth sector identified by the Djibouti Study and Research Center and Ministry of Economy and Finance. Five young women completed intensive six-month training to learn techniques for making pottery and entrepreneurial skills to sell their handcrafted goods at exhibitions across the country and using the Internet. (U.S. Air Force video by Senior Airman Andrew Kobialka)
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