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 Staff Sgt. Page Sevilla
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Grace Reilly and U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Joseph Yanuzzi discuss African Lion 2024
U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa
July 9, 2024 | 1:00
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Grace Reilly, Naval Attache to Morocco and U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Joseph Yanuzzi, foreign area officer, discuss the history of exercise African Lion and the U.S. partnership with Morocco. 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 9,100 participants from 27 nations and NATO contingents. (DOD video Staff Sgt. Page Sevilla)
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