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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 SETAF Africa

B-Roll: Italian Joint Force Headquarters lead Non-combatant Evacuation Operations

U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa

June 11, 2024 | 0:57

Actors role playing Moroccan Internally Displaced Persons in a crisis area go through a simulated immigration control station, a critical non-combatant evacuation operations task, led by the Italian-Joint Force Headquarters in Tan Tan, Morocco, May, 30, 2024. Once screened and registered, they are evacuated to a safe location. African Lion 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of U.S. Africa Command’s premier joint exercise led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), running from April 19 to May 31 across Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, with over 8,100 participants from 27 nations and NATO contingents. (U.S. Army Reserve video by Sgt. Brittany Stokes)

Shot List
(00:00) WIDE SHOT: IDPs demanding for water and food
(00:05) WIDE SHOT: ITAJTF member tosses IDPs water
(00:12) MEDIUM SHOT: IDPs receive water and are pushed back by the FAR
(00:29 MEDIUM SHOT: IDP walks to immigration control point
(00:32) MEDIUM SHOT: IDP enters security checkpoint
(00:36) MEDIUM SHOT: IDP patted down
(00:40) LONG SHOT: IDP patted down and walks through the immigration line
(00:58) MEDIUM SHOT: IDP gets registered
(01:04) MEDIUM SHOT: IDP completes immigration