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| dates = 2013 – present
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The '''African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises (ACIRC)''' is a temporary multinational African [[Interventionism (politics)|interventionist]] standby force set up in November 2013. It will be replaced by the [[African Standby Force]] when it becomes fully operational.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lyimo |first=Henry |date=7 November 2013 |title=Dar pledges troops to African 'force' |url=http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/local-news/24401-dar-pledges-troops-to-african-force |newspaper=[[Daily News (Tanzania)]] |access-date=7 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110031247/http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/local-news/24401-dar-pledges-troops-to-african-force |archive-date=10 November 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=7 November 2013 |title=JK, Zuma, others want rapid response force |url=http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=61254 |publisher=[[IPP Media]] |access-date=7 November 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dfa.gov.za/docs/2013/acirc1106.html |title=Media Briefing: Consultative Summit for the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises (ACIRC) |date=5 November 2013 |publisher=[[Department of International Relations and Cooperation]] |access-date=7 November 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.issafrica.org/iss-today/new-super-combat-brigade-creation-of-an-african-elite New 'super' combat brigade: creation of an African elite?]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130614200604/http://cpauc.au.int/en/content/report-chairperson-commission-operationalisation-rapid-deployment-capability-african-standby Report of the AUC Chairperson on the operationalisation of the Rapid Deployment Capability of the ASF and the ACIRC]

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