The Deputy Minister of Defence, Ernest Brogya Genfi, has said that the African Land Forces summit is a breeding ground for the development of bilateral and multilateral agreement to address the common defense and security challenges in the country.

According to him, the summit has provided a timely and invaluable platform for thoughtful dialogue, for the exchange of innovative ideas, and the reconsolidation of partnerships across sectors, borders, and borders of collective defense.

“We do this with the full realisation that emerging defense and security challenges are transnational and global in nature and scope. We acknowledge that we cannot address them alone as individual countries. A concerted multilateral and multi-agency approach, which the ALFS has adequately provided, is the way to go,” he stated.

Genfi reaffirmed shared commitment to the ideas and actions made at the summit.

He said this during the closing ceremony of the African Land Forces Summit on April 10, 2025.

The US Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) and the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) co-hosted the summit, which has been hosted previously in the United States (2010 & 2022), Uganda (2012), Senegal (2015), Tanzania (2016), Malawi (2017), Nigeria (2018), Botswana (2019), Ethiopia (2020), Cote d’Ivoire (2023), and Zambia (2024).

The theme for this year’s summit was 'Optimising Land Forces for The Emerging Securitty Environment.'

During the summit, senior land forces leaders from African nations had the opportunity to build and strengthen relationships, exchange information on current topics of mutual interest, and encouraged cooperation in addressing challenges.

ALFS is an annual summit that brings together land forces commanders from across Africa, other partner nations, academics, and other government leaders.

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