US General Affirms Morocco’s Key Role in ’African Lion’ Military Exercises

It is precisely the excellence of these relations that the U.S. State Department’s Africa Regional Media Center is confirming, by refuting the information published by some media, claiming that Tunisia will host most of the multinational military exercises "African Lion" next June. Major General Andrew Rowling, Commander of the Southern Europe Task Force, reassures, as usual, that it is Morocco that will host most of the African Lion exercises, specifying that some military exercises will take place in the Moroccan Sahara, in the sectors of Mahbas, Dakhla, and Tan Tan, and others in Tunisia and Senegal.

The United States is aware of the balances to be preserved in order to solve the problems they face in the world, as well as those in the Middle East and Africa (MENA). Given the geographical position of the kingdom as the gateway to the Sahara, which can play a pioneering role in the security, economic and political strategy of the United States in Africa, it is up to the Biden administration to accelerate the completion of work in certain regions in order to regain U.S. leadership, especially on several files in the MENA region.

To recall, last November, a high-level meeting was held at the headquarters of the Southern Military Region of the Royal Armed Forces in Agadir, between Army Corps General El Farouk Belkhir, Commander of the Southern District, and Major General Andrew Rolling, for the preparations of the largest military maneuvers on the African continent, "African Lion", which will bring together this year about ten thousand soldiers from about twenty countries.