U.S. Africa Command Commander Visits Somalia, Meets with Somali President
3:01 PM11/5/2019
U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, and U.S. Chargé de Affairs to Embassy Mogadishu, Brian Néubert, discussed U.S. and Somalia security developments with Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmaajo” and Somali National Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mohamed Ali Barise, during a visit here Nov. 5.
Volunteers pose with staff of the Sara-Niger Rehabilitation Center Movement for Women and Girls during renovation operations in Niamey, Niger. From Sept. 21 to Oct. 14, 2019, Airmen deployed to Nigerien Air Base 101 and U.S. Embassy personnel renovated the local women’s vocational school that teaches local women techniques for making clothing, providing them with a profession and a source of income. (Courtesy Photo)
A volunteer constructs a shelving unit at the Sara-Niger Rehabilitation Center Movement for Women and Girls in Niamey, Niger. From Sept. 21 to Oct. 14, 2019, Airmen deployed to Nigerien Air Base 101 and U.S. Embassy personnel renovated the local women’s vocational school that teaches local women techniques for making clothing, providing them with a profession and a source of income. (Courtesy Photo)
During the two-week training 20 Senegalese Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers from both medical and non-medical learned about infrastructure (setting up field hospital tents and repairing where needed); medical equipment (testing equipment for functionality and maintenance requirements); and power generation. The training included a joint Mass Casualty exercise which consisted of 16 role players with multiple types of injuries to "exercise" and offer the SAF an opportunity to think through, command and control; clinical care practices such as how to set-up a casualty collection point and triage; and patient tracking.
U.S. Africa Command and the Government of Tunisia co-hosted a month-long course recently in Tunis, Tunisia for female intelligence officers from northwest Africa.
To better understand what the burgeoning youth population means for Africa’s future, AFRICOM hosted a panel of youth leaders in Stuttgart, Germany, to discuss ideas for engaging African youth as a means to promote peace throughout the continent.
U.S., Federal Government of Somalia respond to al-Shabaab attack
6:00 PM9/30/2019
No U.S. or partner force personnel were injured after al-Shabaab militants conducted a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device attack at Baledogle Military Airfield complex in Baledogle, Somalia, on Sept. 30, 2019.
Commander Reinforces U.S. Commitment and Support to Burkina Faso
12:00 AM9/18/2019
General Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, met with President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and several other Burkinabe and allied military leaders as part of a larger West Africa regional visit, Sept. 17.
Somali, U.S. forces engage insurgents in support of the Federal Government of Somalia
8:46 PM9/17/2019
In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S Africa Command conducted an airstrike on al-Shabaab insurgents after they attacked a Somali patrol northwest of Kismayo, Lower Juba Province, Somalia, on Sept. 17, 2019.
AFRICOM Commander Meets with African Chiefs of Defense
11:37 PM8/15/2019
U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, met with Chiefs of Defense from Liberia, Ghana, and Malawi Aug. 13-14, 2019 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He also met with a representative from the Botswana Defence Force. Townsend and the African generals participated in the Africa Senior Enlisted Leader Conference.
Symposium brings together interagency communicators to discuss collaboration
1:43 PM8/12/2019
STUTTGART, Germany – Army Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, listens to a question from one of the attendees of the AFRICOM Public Affairs Communicators Symposium, Aug. 2, 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany.
(Photos by Staff Sgt. Grady Jones, AFRICOM Public Affairs)
STUTTGART, Germany – Army Gen. Stephen J. Townsend assumed command of U.S. Africa Command from Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser during a change of command ceremony on Patch Barracks, July 26.
New Commander Takes the Reins at U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa
11:21 AM7/9/2019
Major General Patrick J. Hermesmann , the incoming commander of Marine Forces Europe and Africa, receives the organizational colors from Maj. Gen. Russell A.C. Sanborn, the outgoing commander, during the change of command ceremony on the Devil Dog Field on Panzer Kaserne in Boeblingen, Germany, July 9, 2019. Sanborn, who commanded MARFOREUR/AF since July 2017, presided over several initiatives that grew the headquarters as a dynamic warfighting institution, to include increasing NATO capacity for allied amphibious operations; enhanced naval and amphibious integration into plans, operations and exercises; the expansion of the Marine Corps cold-weather and mountain-warfare rotational training presence in Norway's high north; and responsibility for US forces participating in Exercise Trident Juncture 2018, the largest NATO military exercise since the end of the Cold War. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Menelik Collins/Released)
Special Operations Command Africa receives new commander
11:40 AM7/1/2019
STUTTGART, Germany – In a culmination of two years in command, U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Marcus Hicks transferred command of Special Operations Command Africa to U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson at Kelley Barracks, June 28, 2019.
AFRICOM, Mission Somalia leaders discuss progress and partnership with Somali leadership
4:25 PM6/13/2019
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of U.S. Africa Command, and U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto met with Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire and other key Somali leaders during a visit to Mogadishu, Somalia, June 11.
General Waldhauser, Ambassador Yamamoto discuss progress with Somali leaders in Mogadishu
9:11 AM6/12/2019
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander, U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto met with senior Somali officials during a visit to Mogadishu, Somalia, June 11, 2019.
U.S. Tactical Vehicle Damaged by Improvised Explosive Device in Niger
10:39 PM6/9/2019
A U.S. Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle (MAT-V) activated an improvised explosive device (IED) while entering a firing range in the vicinity of Ouallam, Niger on June 8, 2019.