AFRICOM provides funding to U.S. Customs and Border Protection to train Tanzania canine unit

Exercise Eastern Accord builds readiness with African partners

The four-day conference focused on a Global Network of Navies approach to enhancing collaborative efforts to achieve maritime security in the maritime domain around Africa.

The land force commander and the director of operations of the Tanzanian People's Defence Force visited the U.S. AFRICOM headquarters as part of a command sponsored visit coordinated by U.S. Army Africa.

Marines and Sailors conducted small unit tactics training with Tanzanian park rangers at the Selous Game Reserve in Matambwe, Tanzania, March 2-3.

U.S. Naval course brings 33 naval leaders from Africa and Europe to discuss maritime issues of mutual concern in effort to improve war-fighting capability.

NAPLES, Italy (March. 2, 2015) Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, Vice Adm. James Foggo, III, welcomes Gabon navy Chief Rear Adm. Yves Keba Malekou as he arrives for the 2015 Combined Force Maritime Component Commander (CFMCC) Flag Course Africa at Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy, March 2, 2015. During this weeklong CFMCC course, facilitated by the U.S. Naval War College, 33 senior naval leaders from maritime countries in Europe and Africa will participate in seminars and discussions focusing on the effective employment of naval forces in a joint, coalition or interagency environment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Daniel P. Schumacher/Released)

About 80 Airmen from Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the United States stood together for African Partnership Flight opening ceremonies on Djibouti Air Base Feb. 7, 2015.

Government officials from the United States and Germany attended a media event to present new field equipment to Tanzania rangers at the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania on Jan. 21, 2015.

Recently, U.S. Army Africa’s Col. Frances Hardison and Capt. Christian Smith traveled to Dar Es Salaam and Arusha, Tanzania to plan a gender integration seminar co-hosted by the Tanzanian Peoples Defense Forces. The event is tentatively scheduled for May. During planning, Hardison and Smith discussed the proposed events and activities with the TPDF’s highest ranking female. Hardison is the director of USARAF’s G-1, Personnel.

A source of clean water is essential to the survival of any community.

In coordination with the in-country support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa and United States Africa Command, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command is creating these stepping stones by funding the completion of the Tanzania Defence Intelligence College, Dec. 3, 2014.

Eleven military officers and two senior government officials from the African nations of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda met with senior staff members at U.S. Africa Command to discuss areas of mutual interest and future partnerships, Nov. 6 at Kelley Barracks, U.S. Army Garrison in Stuttgart, Germany.

For two weeks in July, more than 220 officers and NCO's from 10 countries converged on the Malawi Armed Forces College to share knowledge and exchange ideas at Exercise Southern Accord 14. Led by U.S. Army Africa, the U.S. Africa Command-sponsored exercise included several days of instruction from the U.N. Integrated Training Service and U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute and simulated the deployment of a peacekeeping force in a realistic, challenging scenario.