African Lion 20 was scheduled to be conducted from March 23-April 3 in the Kingdom of Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Spain, but was cancelled March 16 due to COVID-19. More info here.

The activities of the annual exercise are designed to enhance interoperability among partner nations against adversarial networks intent on destabilizing the region.

Spearheaded by U.S. Army Africa and hosted by the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, African Lion 20 was planned as a joint force headquarters-validating, partnership-strengthening, readiness-building, multinational, multi-domain and multi-functional exercise testing the warfighters’ ability to deploy, fight and win in a complex, competitive and global environment.

Nearly 5,000 military personnel from the U.S., Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Tunisia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands and Portugal travel to various regions of Morocco, Senegal, Spain and Tunisia were to take part in the African Lion exercise series. In Morocco there was planned to be a medical readiness exercise, large-scale live-fire exercise in addition to air, maritime and forward command post training exercises.

The African Lion series enhances the interoperability of the U.S., partner nations and regional organizations in order to contain regional instability, conduct peace operations, counter violent extremist organizations, maintain cross-border security and counter transnational threats. The scope of African Lion provides an opportunity for all participating units and nations to enhance readiness by performing their mission essential functions.

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