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General Michael Langley, U.S. AFRICOM commander, praised on Monday the strength of the U.S.-Morocco military and security partnership during his visit to the North African Kingdom. The four-star General met separately in Rabat with Minister in charge of the National Defense Administration Abdellatif Loudiyi and Morocco’s top General Farouk Belkhir. “It’s clear that the U.S.-Morocco […]
The United States military said on Wednesday (21 September) it had killed 27 fighters from the al-Shabab militant group in an air strike in Somalia’s central Hiran region, where the army and allied forces have launched an offensive against the insurgents in the last month. According to the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) statement, US forces […]
The United States has transferred to the Royal Moroccan Navy two 11-meter “Metal Shark” interceptor boats. The transfer ceremony took place at the port of Agadir on Thursday, on the sidelines of the final planning event for African Lion 2022, AFRICOM’s premier military exercise – the largest on the African continent, held annually in partnership […]
The United States government, through AFRICOM, donated two field hospital systems to Morocco’s Ministry of Health at a ceremony held Friday at the Ministry of Health’s logistics depot in Salé. The first system is a five-bed Intensive Care Unit valued at $960,000 and the second system is a mobile emergency room valued at $700,000. These […]
Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces in partnership with US Africa Command (AFRICOM) held on August 19 a symposium focusing on interoperability in information sharing. The event brought together dozens of African states and organizations to learn about best practices in the fields of cyber and information systems, Moroccan media reported. Africa Endeavor is AFRICOM’s annual Senior […]
At the high instructions of King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces, the joint Moroccan-American African Lion 2021 drills kicked off this Monday in Agadir. The military maneuvers will continue until Friday June 18, 2021 in the regions of Agadir, Tifnit, Tan Tan, Mehbes, Tafraout, Ben Guerir […]
Tunisia and the US Wednesday pondered over ways to increase their military cooperation as President Kais Saied met with Stefen Townsend, commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM). In his discussions with President Saied, Townsend focused on US partnership with Tunisia, as well as shared concerns over regional stability and the desire to degrade […]
UGTT rejects any foreign intervention in Libya from Tunisian territory. The US military command for Africa, AFRICOM, has denied reports it is seeking to deploy a brigade in Tunisia to counter Russia’s influence in neighboring Libya. The offer to deploy the US Security Force Assistance Brigades in Tunisia over Russia’s activities in Libya […]
Washington has accused Russia of covertly deploying at least 14 fighter jets to Libya last week to back the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army of east-based renegade commander Khalifa Haftar in his campaign to oust the government from Tripoli and the Russian state-sponsored private military contractors (PMCs) operating on the ground in Libya. In a statement […]
The US military has claimed to have eliminated a leader of the Somali jihadist group of Al-Shabab who is reportedly linked to the attack perpetrated last January against the American military base at Manda Bay in Kenya and which killed three American soldiers. The United States Command for Africa (Africom) said in a statement […]