Members from the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Personnel Recovery Task Force and U.S. Africa Command contract Personnel Recovery conducted a complex, multi-day rescue at sea of a U.K. civilian mariner in distress, Nov. 13-14. Members of the WRN received an urgent request for a mariner experiencing symptoms of a heart attack aboard the U.S. flagged cargo ship Liberty Grace located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 500 nautical miles east of Kenya.
Maj. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, commander, U.S. Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAF), and a panel of experts on violent extremist organizations in Africa conducted a web event, “The crossroad of competition: Countering the rise of violent extremists and revisionist powers in Africa,” moderated by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Sept. 9.
