The African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises (ACIRC) is a temporary multinational African interventionist standby force set up in November 2013. It will be replaced by the African Standby Force when it becomes fully operational.
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External links New 'super' combat brigade: creation of an African elite? Report of the AUC Chairperson on the operationalisation of the Rapid Deployment Capability of the ASF and the ACIRC