African Lion USA Morocco

African Lion is the US Africa Command's first and largest annual exercise, with more than 7,500 troops participating from June 6-30.

The African Lion 22 project will be implemented in four countries: Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia. Armies from Brazil, Chad, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom will join the United States and the host nation's forces. American participants come from all components of the service, including the Reserves and National Guard.

African Lion 22 features a joint task force command exercise, a joint live-fire weapons exercise, a naval exercise, an air exercise involving bomber aircraft, a joint forced entry with paratroopers in a field exercise, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear response exercise, and a civilian humanitarian assistance program event.

This effort includes strengthening our joint defense capabilities to counter transnational threats and violent extremist organizations, which is in the greater good of the United States and our African partner nations.

In October 2021, the planners gathered to start coordination with African Lion 22: