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    AFRICAN LION

    African Lion

    African Lion    

    2024 marks the 20th anniversary of AFRICOM’s premier and largest annual, combined, joint exercise African Lion. This year’s exercise will take place April 19 through May 31 and is hosted across Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia with more than 8,100 participants from over 27 nations and contingents from NATO. African Lion 24 focuses on enhancing readiness between the U.S. and partner nation forces. This joint all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise, employs a full array of mission capabilities with the goal to strengthen interoperability among participants and set the theater for strategic access.

    485 Featured Videos

    SETAF Africa Minute: Episode 23

    SETAF Africa Minute: Episode 23
    02.06.25 | Chris House | SETAF-AF
    The "SETAF Africa Minute" is a monthly video showcasing the Command's activities in Africa, Italy and beyond. SETAF Africa Minute - Episode 23...
    19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) presents "Sands of Tifnit"

    19th Special Forces Group (Airborne)...
    06.15.24 | SSG Jake SeaWolf | 19SFG
    Service members assigned to the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Utah National Guard, fast rope out of a helicopter as part of the...
    Tunnel Warfare

    Tunnel Warfare
    06.15.24 | SSG Jake SeaWolf | 19SFG
    Paratroopers with the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) perform a static line jump from the open ramp of a C-130 Hercules during a combined...
    19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) presents "Sands of Tifnit"

    19th Special Forces Group (Airborne)...
    06.15.24 | SSG Jake SeaWolf | 19SFG
    Service members assigned to the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Utah National Guard, practice subterranean warfare as part of the...
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    5,265 Featured Images

    US, Tunisian and Senegalese EOD teams strengthen readiness through collaborative training

    US, Tunisian and Senegalese EOD teams...
    03.13.25 | MAJ Joe Legros | SETAF-AF
    Soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), join Armed Forces of Senegal soldiers for a group photo while...
    US, Tunisian and Senegalese EOD teams strengthen readiness through collaborative training

    US, Tunisian and Senegalese EOD teams...
    03.13.25 | MAJ Joe Legros | SETAF-AF
    Armed Forces of Senegal soldiers pose for a group photo while participating in an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) exchange in Bizerte, Tunisia,...
    African Lion 2025 Planning meeting

    African Lion 2025 Planning meeting
    11.13.24 | SETAF Africa | SETAF-AF
    U.S. Army Maj. Joshua Veal, logistics planner, 79th Theater Sustainment Command, speaks during the Tunisian-spoke mid planning event for exercise...
    African Lion 2025 Planning meeting

    African Lion 2025 Planning meeting
    11.13.24 | SETAF Africa | SETAF-AF
    U.S. Army Col. Drew Conover, director of exercises (G7), U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), speaks during the...
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    190 Featured Stories

    US, Tunisian and Senegalese EOD teams strengthen readiness through collaborative training

    US, Tunisian and Senegalese EOD teams...
    03.12.25 | MAJ Joe Legros | SETAF-AF
    TUNIS, Tunisia – A controlled detonation shakes the ground as a cloud of smoke rises over the training range. For explosive ordnance disposal...
    African Lion 2025 planners refine strategies in Agadir

    African Lion 2025 planners refine...
    11.22.24 | CPT Billy Lacroix | SETAF-AF
    AGADIR, Morocco – Multinational military planners gathered, Nov. 18-22, to advance preparations for African Lion 2025 (AL25), the largest...
    African Lion 2025 planning conference for Tunisia spoke concludes in Vicenza

    African Lion 2025 planning conference for...
    11.15.24 | MAJ Joe Legros | SETAF-AF
    VICENZA, Italy – Planning for African Lion 2025 (AL25), a multinational exercise set to take place in Tunisia next spring, moved forward during...
    Water, water, everywhere: US, Tunisia work wonders to solve critical water issues

    Water, water, everywhere: US, Tunisia...
    10.03.24 | Courtesy Story | SETAF-AF
    “You’re depleting our water” is not the comment U.S. partners want to hear from a host nation after an exercise, especially one experiencing...
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    20 Featured Audio

    U.S. Army Europe and Africa Band & Chorus...
    06.26.22 | SFC Bridget J. Vian | SETAF-AF
    U.S. Army Europe and Africa Band & Chorus musical group, Free Groove, performs a sound check and concert set in conjunction with Tifawt, a...
    African Lion 2021-Overall

    African Lion 2021-Overall
    06.18.21 | SGT Christopher Brecht | SETAF-AF
    African Lion 2021 has been another great year of partnership. African Lion 2021 is U.S. Africa Command’s largest, premier, joint, annual...

    African Lion 202-1 musical cultural exchange
    06.10.21 | PO1 Terrence Siren | SETAF-AF
    The U.S. Army Europe and Africa Band and Chorus conduct a cultural exchange with Saad Abid, a Moroccan social media activist and founder of...
    African Lion 2021- Hershel "Woody" Williams DV Engagement

    African Lion 2021- Hershel "Woody"...
    06.11.21 | SSgt Frederick Brown | SETAF-AF
    A Key Leader Engagement was held onboard the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams between Major General Andrew M. Rohling, Commander of U.S. Army...
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    4 Featured Graphics

    African Lion 2022 Info Graphic

    African Lion 2022 Info Graphic
    01.30.24 | Courtesy Graphics | SETAF-AF
    ­African Lion 2022 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia, June 6 -...
    African Lion 21 strategic overview

    African Lion 21 strategic overview
    01.30.24 | Rashawn Boykin | SETAF-AF
    African Lion is an exercise aimed at strengthening partnerships and building readiness, through joint all-domain, multi-national and...
    African Lion 21 by the numbers

    African Lion 21 by the numbers
    01.30.24 | Courtesy Graphics | SETAF-AF
    More than 7,000 troops from nine countries will participate in the exercise – U.S. Africa Command’s largest annual exercise. The exercise...
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