Approximately 5400 members of the military police and civilian components representing four of the Regional Economic Regions of the African Union (AU) will be participating in the exercise. 

According to the South African National Defence Force, the aim of the exercise is to evaluate the state of readiness of the African Standby Force (ASF), as well as to excercise its Rapid Deployment Capabaility (RDC) in order to ascertain gaps and requirements for achieving Full Operational Capability (FOC) of the ASF by December 2015.

The exercise will take place between 26 October and 4 November 2015 and will begin with a Rapid Deployment Capability of ASF as a start-up operation and then run a full multi-dimensional Peace Support Operation.

Detailed planning in preparation of the exercise has been done since March 2015 by officials from the AU, SADC and South Africa in South Africa. 

Amani Africa is the exercise codename in ki-Swahili meaning Peace in Africa.

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Lerato Sebe/OFM News