Algeria  Morocco Mauritania Tunisia Burkina Faso Chad Mali  Niger Nigeria Senegal Cameroon Togo Ghana Ivory Coast Benin Cape Verde Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Sierra Leone Islamic militants

[25] This program builds upon the former Pan Sahel Initiative (PSI), which concluded in December 2004[26] and focused on weapon and drug trafficking, as well as counterterrorism.

[2] Operation Enduring Freedom Trans Sahara is primarily a training mission meant to equip 10 nations to combat insurgents in the region.

Furthermore, OEF-TS strengthens counterterrorism and border security, promotes democratic governance, reinforces bilateral military ties, and enhances development and institution building.

U.S. Africa Command, through OEF-TS, provides training, equipment, assistance and advice to partner nation armed forces.

[35] Created in 2008, this program is designed to instruct a variety of skills, including aerial logistics, non-lethal weapons training, combined arms and maneuver exercises.

[35] On 12 September 2007, a USAF C-130 was damaged from rifle fire by Tuareg forces while the aircraft was engaged in a supply drop to besieged Malian soldiers, no Americans were wounded in the incident.

[41] ABC News also reported that there are 300 U.S. military personnel in Burkina Faso and Cameroon carrying out the same task as US forces in Niger,[40] The Guardian reported that the US military deployed 300 personnel to Cameroon in early October 2015, with the approval of the Cameroonian government, their primary mission was to provide intelligence support to local forces as well as conducting reconnaissance flights,[42] The personnel are also overseeing a program to transfer American military vehicles to the Cameroonian Army to aid in their fight against Islamist militants,[43] Army Times later reported that US soldiers in Cameroon are also providing IED awareness training to the country's infantry forces.

[44] CNN reported that in May 2016 that US personnel conduct the drone operations from Garoua to help provide intelligence in the region to assist local forces.