U.S.

Africa Command
… building the command

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Direction

This new command will • President Bush directed establishment

strengthen our security of US Africa Command – Feb 07
cooperation with Africa and
help to create new
opportunities to bolster the • Initial Operating Capability (IOC)
capabilities of our partners by 1 Oct 07
in Africa. Africa Command • Building the team
will enhance our efforts to
help bring peace and • Engaging key audiences
security to the people of • Preparing for mission transfers
Africa and promote our
common goals of
development, health, • Unified Command status by 30 Sep 08
education, democracy, and
economic growth in Africa. • Establish a command presence on the
President George Bush
continent
February 7, 2007

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Why is Africa Important?

• Africa has significant strategic &

economic importance:
• 11.7m square miles
• 900m people
• 3 countries on UN Security
Council
• Oil, minerals, metals, food
• Our focus is to build the capacity
of our African partners to:
• Reduce conflict
• Improve security
• Defeat terrorists
• Support crisis response

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Current Peacekeeping Operations

• 68,300 uniformed UN peacekeepers in
Africa (Jan 08)
• Current UN/AU Peacekeeping Operations:
• Western Sahara
• Liberia
• Cote D’Ivoire
• Ethiopia/Eritrea
• DRC
• Sudan
• Darfur
• Chad/CAR
• Somalia

UN Peacekeeping Operations
AU Peacekeeping Operations
EU Peacekeeping Operations

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The Size of Africa

Distance
Mogadishu—Dakar: 4365 miles
Chicago—Honolulu: 4250 miles

Distance
Tunis—Cape Town: 4885 miles
Coastline: 47,560 miles New York—Moscow: 4674 miles
Population: 888 million (2005)
-over 800 ethnic groups and 1000
languages
Number of countries: 53

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Africa’s Size and Diversity

11.7 million
square miles
More than Argentina (1.1)
Western Europe (1.4)
The United States (3.1)
and China (3.7)
Combined (9.3)

53 nations
900 million people (14% of Earth pop.)
More than 1,000 languages spoken
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AFRICOM: Vertical and Horizontal

AFRICOM Washington Office
AFRICOM Coordination Center
Regional
Regional Integration
Integration Team
Team
• Vertical staff: manage Regional
Regional Integration Team
Regional Integration Team
Integration Team
programs, build capacity and Peace & Security
expertise Humanitarian Assistance
Support to Stability and Infrastructure
Support to Good Governance
Support to Security Sector Reform
• Horizontal teams: Innovation and Strategy Outreach
collaborate on lines of
operation, plan and Region Planning Teams

execute missions Contingency/Crisis Planning Team

Boards, Centers, Cells
• Permanent
Planning and Coordination Teams
• Standing

Director
Director

Director

Director
• On-call

Office

Office
• Ad hoc

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Our Role
DEPT OF STATE
Continent‐wide:  African Union U.S. foreign policy lead ‐‐
Regional: Regional Economic  worked through Embassies
Community (REC)
Bi‐Lateral:  With each nation

Coordinate all activities with 
USAMBs to host nations

Exercise military to
military contacts
USAID Treasury
FBI Commerce
Energy Agriculture
Help harmonize the  DHS Others
U.S. Government 
effort
Apply DOD capabilities to meet needs of 
Africans in support of U.S. foreign policy
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Mission Transfer Process

1 Oct 2007 1 Oct 2008

Strategy, Plans,
and Policy

Theater Security 
Cooperation

Contingency
Planning
Crisis Response Humanitarian Assistance/
Disaster Relief

On‐Going Operations,
Training, Exercises
TSCTP and OEF‐TS

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Our Approach

Persistent, Sustained Level of Effort
Persistent, Sustained Level of Effort

Building Partner
Building Partner
Security Capacity
Security Capacity

Fostering 
Fostering 
Supporting  Continued 
Continued 
Supporting 
Humanitarian  Dialogue and 
Dialogue and 
Humanitarian 
Assistance Efforts
Assistance Efforts Development
Development

Providing
Providing
Crisis Response
Crisis Response

…to Enable the Work 
…to Enable the Work 
Oriented on Preventing Conflict
Oriented on Preventing Conflict of Africans
of Africans
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QUESTIONS???

The overall classification of this

briefing is UNCLASSIFIED