Counter Illicit Trafficking Symposium

DJIBOUTI

10.15.2012

Audio by Staff Sgt. Sara Weeks 

Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa

Defense Threat Reduction Agency works with U.S. and Djiboutian governments to help build a community of security professionals to reduce and prevent illicit trafficking across international borders. Staff Sergeant Sara Weeks has the story.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency or DTRA sponsored a symposium in Djibouti, Africa, to increase awareness and to reduce illicit trafficking across international borders for the Djiboutian military and paramilitary organizations. Lt Col Veronica Cowher, DTRA, Regional Security Engagement Program Coordinator says their goal is to raise awareness and identify risks and threats of counter illicit trafficking and to come up with a practice to integrate land and maritime security for the government of Djibouti.
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All those materials that go through these networks are of concern to everyone. Whether your nation is a target for terrorist attack or just a through point as someone moves materials to create a bomb at some other point, we are all as a community of nations part of the problem and part of the solution.
REPORTER
DTRA efforts are important as the U.S. government fights to encounter violence and extremism in remote locations around the world. For Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa Public Affairs, I’m Staff Sergeant Sara Weeks.

• Date Taken: 10.15.2012
• Date Posted: 10.19.2012 06:09
• Category: Newscasts
• Audio ID: 31224
• Filename: 1210/DOD_100577094.mp3
• Length: 00:01:04
• Location: DJ