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3:26 PM2/15/2018

U.S. Army Africa Acting Commanding General Brig. Gen. Eugene LeBoeuf hosted the USARAF senior leader strategy session Jan. 30-Feb. 2 at the Golden Lion conference center on Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy. The session focused on utilizing the reserve component for security cooperation events and exercises in Africa to increase reserve operational readiness and accomplish USARAF's mission of setting the theater.

1:10 PM2/14/2018

Members of Task Force Darby completed a road repair project Jan. 25 by using a method called Do-Nou.

11:04 AM2/14/2018

1st Infantry Division Soldier from Ghana tackles air assault challenge.

4:53 PM2/2/2018

10:24 AM2/2/2018

Military planners from the United States, Uganda, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom converged here Jan. 29 to Feb. 2 to continue the planning and preparation for the second annual U.S. Army Africa-led exercise Justified Accord 2018, scheduled to take place in June.

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9:52 AM12/28/2017

More than 20 official unit mail handlers worked diligently to process hundreds of packages the evening of December 19 and 20 for the service members stationed at CL Garoua.

9:48 AM12/28/2017

The CL Garoua medic team was able to vaccinate 120 soldiers in about three hours inoculating a significant number of the service members in need of the flu shot.

12:07 PM12/20/2017

Two soldiers and an airman started a French class in Garoua to make it easier for service members and locals to communicate.

3:51 PM12/13/2017

The 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Soldiers from Task Force Darby supporting operations at Contingency Location Garoua, Cameroon, completed the hands-on part of their combat lifesavers course Dec. 10.

9:38 AM12/12/2017

ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigerian Army and U.S. Army soldiers joined forces here to plan the upcoming African Land Forces Summit, Dec. 3-8.

4:32 PM12/7/2017

Rwanda Defence Force hosts the U.S. and Netherlands for Peacekeeping Exercise Planning.

10:11 AM12/7/2017

With about 200 Soldiers, Airmen and contractors, the unit in Garoua, Cameroon, supports Cameroon's military in its fight against Boko Haram. The violent extremist group is responsible for killing, kidnapping and displacing thousands of people and still operates roughly 60 miles from the base.

11:12 PM12/5/2017

VICENZA, Italy – U.S. Army Africa’s acting commanding general visited Nigeria to engage with senior land force’s chiefs and offer war college students academic insight in Abuja, Nov. 30.

3:14 PM11/24/2017

Col. Barthelemy Tsilla, commander of Air Base 301, and his Airmen were invited by Maj. Andrzej V. Kujawski, Task Force Darby commander at CL Garoua, to join in the American Thanksgiving tradition.

11:37 AM11/24/2017

A handful of Soldiers from the 764th Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) out of Fort Carson, Colorado, came to Cameroon at the request of U.S Army Africa during Counter Improvised Explosive Device-Defeat Phase I training October 23 to November 17, 2017, to help Cameroonian troops learn more about IEDs and how to dispose of them safely.

2:49 PM10/24/2017

Pfc. Yardy Collins holds the distinction of being the first international student from Liberia to graduate from the preventive medicine specialist program at the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston October 20.

5:09 PM10/16/2017

Chaplain (Col.) David Lile and Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Mike Burgess participated in a combat operational stress control (COSC) military-to-military engagement with twenty-one Rwandan medical and military personnel. The engagement was held Sept. 13-17, 2017, in Kigali, Rwanda. There were two proposed takeaways. The first was a solid week of shared tactical training points and engagement with the Rwandan military professionals. The second was an in-depth understanding of the Rwandan model for combat operational stress control.