# Inaugural Africa Airforce Forum To Address Evolving Security Challenges Across Africa

- Link: https://www.military.africa/2022/10/inaugural-africa-airforce-forum-to-address-evolving/
- Published: 2022-10-09T23:20:44+01:00
- Author: Military Africa

* **_+20 chiefs of Air Forces from across Africa and Internationally to attend 
   and share insights into security challenges across Africa_**
 * _**Forum to be a platform for Africa’s aerospace and defence stakeholders to 
   convene, integrate and implement plans**_

To support and address the security challenges and the necessity for regional Air
Forces to enhance air operations to counter asymmetrical threats across Africa, 
the Inaugural African Airforce Forum will be highlighting aviation in Low-intensity
conflicts and will be hosted by the Senegal Air Force at the King Fahd Palace Dakar
in Senegal from 26 to 27 October 2022.

The two-day forum will feature bespoke networking exercises and interactive platforms
for the region’s Airforce leadership and global solution providers to enhance collaborative
approaches to combat regional security challenges.

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The congregation is essential for the entire aerospace community to cooperatively
advance tactics and MRO supply-chain management. Senegalese Air Force is currently
enhancing their fleet capabilities and personal readiness to support counterinsurgency
and counterterrorism operations. This readiness is crucial in the context of the
beginning of oil and gas exploitation in 2023, and the further need to provide air
assets to safeguard offshore and onshore oil and gas assets.

![Gen. Papa Souleymane Sarr, chief of staff of the Senegalese air force](https://
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Gen. Papa Souleymane Sarr, chief of staff of the Senegalese air force

Chief of Air Force Staff, Brigadier General Papa Souleymane SARR is delighted to
welcome the global aerospace community to this critical meeting of Air Force leadership
as well as renowned solution providers. The forum will provide the ideal setting
to converse about the evolving role air operations play in counterinsurgency efforts
and highlight the importance of the region’s forces to cooperatively address ways
to enhance the security landscape. As the premier strategic gathering of Air Forces,
and key solution providers in Africa, the forum will enhance the full value chain
of Africa’s defence and security aviation sector.

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An international exhibition at the event will be showcasing the latest materials,
equipment and most advanced systems and technologies in the domain of Intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, as well as Maintenance, repair, and
overhaul. Training and retention of personnel will also be discussed.

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The aim of the forum is to identify key requirements of Africa’s Air Forces and 
provide key solutions to transnational threats.
With over 300 regional and international
attendees from Air Forces, the African Airforce Forum is an ideal networking and
knowledge-sharing platform for the aerospace industry in the region.

The event will also feature more than 20 speakers, over 30 sponsors and exhibitors,
over 20 Chiefs of Air Forces, over 30 Air Forces will also be represented as well
as 22 media partners. The countries participating will span the African continent
as well as partners from around the world.
The African Airforce Forum is sponsored
by AD Consultants, Ortho International, Norinco, Poly technologies, Havelsan, Thales,
Embraer, Foreign Asset Trade Company Senegal, Airbus, Pratt & Whitney, Korean Aerospace
Industries (KAI), Diamond Aircraft, LOM Praha Trade, Starlite Aviation Group, EOS
technologies, Go Beyond, Africair, Shark Aero, PBS, JAC, Jet Aviation, Heliconia
and Fokker Tekniek.

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