Partnership
Security
Stability
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AFRICA COMMAND
General Kip Ward, Commanding
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Africa’s Size and Diversity
11.7 million square miles
About 3-1/2 times the size of the
Continental United States
Dakar to Mogadishu = 4365 miles
Chicago to Honolulu = 4250 miles
Tunis to Cape Town = 4885 miles
New York to Moscow = 4674 miles
53 nations
888 million people (14% of Earth pop.)
Over 800 ethnic groups and 1000 languages
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A Diverse African Environment
•Opportunities
– Rapidly growing economies
– Increasing democratization
– Emerging regional security
and economic communities
– Growing political will to
confront challenges
•Security Challenges
– Terrorism & Extremism
– Piracy and Trafficking
– Non-Professional /
Irregular Militaries
– Ethnic Strife
– Undergoverned Areas
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U.S. Africa Command Mission Statement
United States Africa Command, in concert with other U.S.
Government agencies and international partners, conducts
sustained security engagement through military-to-military
programs, military-sponsored activities, and other military
operations as directed to promote a stable and secure African
environment in support of U.S. foreign policy.
•Reduce conflict
•Improve security
•Defeat violent extremism
•Support crisis response
Our focus is to build the
capacity of our African
partners to:
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Our Approach -- “Active Security”
Persistent, Sustained Level of Effort
Building Partner
Security Capacity
Supporting
USG Efforts to
Encourage
Dialogue and
Development
Promote Strategic
Relationships
Conducting CivilMilitary Activities
to Foster Stability
Providing
Crisis Response
Oriented on Preventing Conflict…
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…to Enable the
Work
of Africans
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Committed for the Long Term
Maintaining a persistent level of effort across Programs
Communication
Equipping
Activities
Listening and Learning –
Building Trust and Confidence
Foreign military sales or
grants, plus training, etc.
Training, exercises, etc.
plus build the training base
Education
Sustainment
Employment
Instilling professionalism among
officers and NCOs
Build sustainment capacity,
cross-service agreements
Enabling the Work of Africans!
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Active Security in Practice
Africa Partnership Station (APS) – Oct 2007 – Apr 2008
Requirement
West African nations seek to
improve maritime security
Implement
APS deploys – conducts events
requested by partners
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Gulf of Guinea Ministerials
Cotonou, Benin – Nov 2006
Assess
How well executed? How well
did it meet partner needs?
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Communicate
Announcement of APS in
Washington DC
Follow-Up
Listen to Partners:
New Requirements?
Continue Program?
Extend Program to
Other Domains?
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Other Theater Security Cooperation Programs
Training and Equipping
enhancing security capacity
Foreign Military Finance (FMF) -- $18.5M
Military to Military Engagement (M2M) -- $3M
Military Education
promoting professionalism, enhancing capacity
International Military Education and Training (IMET) -- $17.09M
Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP) -- $4M
Note: Amounts are FY08 numbers toward African nations
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Other Theater Security Cooperation Programs (2)
Civil-Military Programs
helping prevent conflict
Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) -- $400K
DoD HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP) -- $82.5M
Programs Relating to National Defense Authorization Act
Section 1206 programs -- $47.8M
Section 1207 programs -- $56.5M
Note: Amounts are FY08 numbers toward African nations
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Our Team in Africa
Offices of Security Cooperation
(OSCs)
Defense Attaché Officers
w/o an OSC
AFRICOM Liaison Officers
Bi-Lateral Assistance Officers
Maritime Assistance Officers
OEF-TS Security Assistance Officers
Liaison officer in Southern Sudan
Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of
Africa (CJTF-HOA)
CJTF-HOA Country Coordination Element
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United States Africa Command
http://www.africom.mil
News,
Features,
and a
BLOG
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United States Africa Command
Partnership
Security
Stability
UNITED STATES
AFRICA COMMAND
General Kip Ward, Commanding
The overall classification of this presentation is UNCLASSIFIED
Partnership
Security
Stability
UNITED STATES
AFRICA COMMAND
General Kip Ward, Commanding
Back-up Slides
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State Partnership Program
Utah
-- Morocco
Since 2003
Wyoming -- Tunisia
Since 2004
Vermont -- Senegal
In-Progress since April 2007
N. Dakota -- Ghana
Since 2004
California -- Nigeria
Since 2006
Partners a U.S. state’s National Guard
with an African partner for training,
exercise, and relationship building
N. Carolina -- Botswana
In-Progress since April 2007
New York -- South Africa
Since 2003
3/14/2016
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Peacekeeping
• Africa Contingency
Operations Training and
Assistance (ACOTA) program
• The US has been training
African peacekeepers through
ACOTA (or ACRI) since 1997
• Enhances existing African peace
keeping capabilities
• Focuses on infantry skills,
humanitarian operations, human
rights, and rules of engagement
in peacekeeping scenarios
• Trains approximately 20
battalions a year
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Liberia Security Sector Reform
• $209M over four years to create a new Liberian army by 2008
• ~ 2000 soldiers to be trained
• Brigade HQ, 2 infantry battalions, MP company, band
• Contractor-provided training, EUCOM-provided mentors
• Provides all training, equipment, and infrastructure construction
• EUCOM commitment: 3 years
• UN Mission in Liberia (since Sep 03)
• Mission: To provide security
for country of Liberia
• $714.9M for UN FY06
• ~ 17,000 total personnel
• 90 fatalities
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Maritime Security
• Goals:
• Improved maritime domain awareness
• Enhanced African regional maritime security
and regional cooperation
• Reduced piracy and “freedom of action” of
traffickers and terrorists
• Illegal fishing is countered
• Enhanced sovereignty and security
• EUCOM actions:
• Ship visits and maritime training
• Provision of equipment
• Boats, Coastal Radars, and Automated
Identification Systems (AIS)
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Africa Partnership Station (APS)
• Themes
– Maritime Security and Safety are vital to
regional prosperity
– US and partners are committed to
enabling African solutions
– Building trust through transparency and
collaboration
Ghana
Cameroon
Gabon
Sao Tome & Principe
Angola
• Successful Development
– Coalition support
– NGO participation
• USS Fort McHenry: Nov 07 – Apr 08
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• HSV Swift:
Jan 08 –Jun 08
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Air Security
• EUCOM, through USAFE,
supports USG “Safe Skies for
Africa” program
Broad expanses of
“ungoverned airspace”
• Goal is to improve radar
coverage and air traffic
control over Africa
• Presently, radar coverage is
limited
• Costs of “ungoverned” airspace
• Potential for trafficking
• Poor air safety
• Reduction in economic potential
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Counter-Terrorism
• OEF-Trans-Sahara is EUCOM / AFRICOM’s
effort to:
• Build regional capacity
• Promote interoperability
• Strengthen Inter-regional cooperation in
the trans-Sahara region
• Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership
(TSCTP) is the US Department of State
program in these same nations
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Partnership Development
• Goal: To build on regional
relationships with African Union
and sub-regional organizations
• AFRICOM support regional
cooperation and coalition
development through
conferences and workshops
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