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Members of a security assistance training team and the Djiboutian Armed Forces (FAD) pose for a group photo, Dec. 12, 2015 at the People’s Palace in Djibouti. The team conducted a three-week security assistance training session in order to help the FAD combat violent extremist organizations across East Africa.
U.S., Gabonese, and planners from 14 African and European partner nations gather in Libreville, Gabon, Dec. 7 to coordinate planning efforts for Central Accord 2016. Central Accord is an annual exercise that brings together partner nations to demonstrate mission command proficiency for a United Nations peacekeeping operation, improve multi-echelon operations and develop multinational logistical and communications capabilities.
Brig. Gen. Ferdinand Gaspard Olame Ndong, deputy chief of the general staff of the Gabonese Armed Forces, Brig. Gen. Jon Jensen, U.S. Army Africa deputy commanding general, and Lt. Col. James Lander, deputy commanding officer of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, welcomed military planners from 16 African and European nations to the main planning event for Central Accord 2016. Central Accord is an annual exercise that brings together partner nations to demonstrate mission command proficiency for a United Nations peacekeeping operation, improve multi-echelon operations and develop multinational logistical and communications capabilities.
Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Sheldon briefs planners from the U.S., Gabonese, and 14 African and European partner nations during a survey trip Dec. 9 to Point Denis, Libreville, Gabon, for the main planning event of Central Accord 2016. Central Accord is an annual exercise that brings together partner nations to demonstrate mission command proficiency for a United Nations peacekeeping operation, improve multi-echelon operations and develop multinational logistical and communications capabilities.
U.S. Navy Lt. Steven Hunt, Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa engineer, illustrates soil stabilization techniques during a military-to-military engagement with the Rwandan Defense Force at the RDF Engineering Brigade Headquarters near Kigali, Rwanda, Dec. 15, 2015. Engineers from both forces exchanged ideas on the optimal ways to plan expeditionary camps considering local terrain features.
U.S. service members recently completed the second module of Tactical Intelligence Support to Maritime Operations course for the Ghanaian Navy and Maritime Police Force, Dec. 7-18, at Ghana’s Eastern Naval Command Headquarters here. This course has already paid dividends, according to Foster Kotoku, the Ghanaian Maritime Police Force assistant superintendent. During the two-week course, students from the Ghanaian Maritime Police Force seized an undisclosed amount of illicit drugs from a smuggler on a ferry. With follow-on questioning, the police forces were led to a higher connection in the drug trade.
U.S. service members recently completed the second module of Tactical Intelligence Support to Maritime Operations course for the Ghanaian Navy and Maritime Police Force, Dec. 7-18, at Ghana’s Eastern Naval Command Headquarters here. This course has already paid dividends, according to Foster Kotoku, the Ghanaian Maritime Police Force assistant superintendent. During the two-week course, students from the Ghanaian Maritime Police Force seized an undisclosed amount of illicit drugs from a smuggler on a ferry. With follow-on questioning, the police forces were led to a higher connection in the drug trade.
U.S. service members recently completed the second module of Tactical Intelligence Support to Maritime Operations course for the Ghanaian Navy and Maritime Police Force, Dec. 7-18, at Ghana’s Eastern Naval Command Headquarters here. This course has already paid dividends, according to Foster Kotoku, the Ghanaian Maritime Police Force assistant superintendent. During the two-week course, students from the Ghanaian Maritime Police Force seized an undisclosed amount of illicit drugs from a smuggler on a ferry. With follow-on questioning, the police forces were led to a higher connection in the drug trade.
Strategic Lift - U.S. Air Force Crew Loads Aravis: McGuire Air Force Base and McChord Air Force Base personnel work together to load a Gabonese armored personnel carrier on a C-17 before departing for Bangui, Central African Republic; Dec. 15, 2015, Libreville, Gabon. Both the U.S. and France provided military manpower in Libreville, Gabon, and the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, to help with the loading/unloading and transport of equipment. The result was the timely deployment of more than 450,000 pounds of vital equipment and vehicles for the Gabonese military. (Photo courtesy of French military, ADC Laminette/RELEASED)
Strategic Lift - U.S. Air Force Crew Loads Aravis: McGuire Air Force Base and McChord Air Force Base personnel work together to load a Gabonese armored personnel carrier on a C-17 before departing for Bangui, Central African Republic; Dec. 15, 2015, Libreville, Gabon. Both the U.S. and France provided military manpower in Libreville, Gabon, and the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, to help with the loading/unloading and transport of equipment. The result was the timely deployment of more than 450,000 pounds of vital equipment and vehicles for the Gabonese military. (Photo courtesy of French military, ADC Laminette/RELEASED)
Strategic Lift: A U.S. C17 cargo plane arrives in Bangui, Central African Republic, Dec. 15, 2015. Both the U.S. and France provided military manpower in Libreville, Gabon, and the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, to help with the loading/unloading and transport of equipment. The result was the timely deployment of more than 450,000 pounds of vital equipment and vehicles for the Gabonese military. (Photo courtesy of French military, ADC Laminette/RELEASED)
Members of the Spanish Joint Staff and U.S. Africa Command participate in a discussion at the AFRICOM Multinational Cooperation Center in Stuttgart, Germany, Dec. 2, 2015.
Col. Enrique Tovar, chief of plans for the Spanish Joint Operations Command, participates in a discussion at the U.S. Africa Command Multinational Cooperation Center in Stuttgart, Germany, Dec. 2, 2015.
Col. Victor Kisiri, a 303rd Infantry Brigade administrative officer with Tanzanian People’s Defense Force, leads a planning session with members of U.S. Army Africa and the TPDF for the African Land Forces Summit 2016 at the East African community headquarters at Arusha, Tanzania, Dec. 1, 2015. . ALFS events bring army chiefs of staff from multiple African nations together to discuss regional and transregional topics. (U.S. Army Africa photo by Capt. Jason Welch)
Strategic Lift: A U.S. C17 cargo plane arrives in Bangui, Central African Republic, Dec. 15, 2015. Both the U.S. and France provided military manpower in Libreville, Gabon, and the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, to help with the loading/unloading and transport of equipment. The result was the timely deployment of more than 450,000 pounds of vital equipment and vehicles for the Gabonese military. (Photo courtesy of French military, ADC Laminette/RELEASED)
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(From Right) Carl Giles, director of Instrumentation Training Analysis Computer Simulations and Support team, speaks with Maj. Gen. Molefi Seikano, Ground Forces Commander, Botswana Defense Force, and his party, to provide an understanding of how ITACSS benefits unit training during a U.S. Army Africa command sponsored visit to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, Dec. 3, 2015. The visit offered Botswana leadership an opportunity to observe JMRC facilities and capabilities, as well as explore opportunities for future training and partnership. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Gemma Iglesias)
Ebenezer Dosoo, deputy national coordinator for the National Disaster Management Organization of Ghana, gives remarks during the closing ceremony of the West Africa Disaster Preparedness Initiative Way Forward conference in Accra, Ghana Dec. 7-10.
Representatives from U.S. government agencies and international organizations participate in a panel discussion during the closing day of the West Africa Disaster Preparedness Initiative - WADPI Way Forward Conference in Accra, Ghana Dec. 10.
Panelists participating in the WADPI opening ceremony meet prior to the start of the conference in Accra, Ghana Dec. 7.
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