The change of command between the outgoing EUTM DEPUTY MISSION COMMANDER, Colonel Vicente TORRES VAZQUEZ (Spain) and the incoming DEPUTY MISSION COMMANDER, Colonel Antonio ARAUZO MARTINEZ (Spain) took place on Tuesday, 04 February 2020, at the MFHQ (Mission Force Headquarters) in Bamako. The Change...
The training on Civil-Military Action (CMA) for the G5-Sahel JF took place 21 - 25 January 2020. It was conducted in the Sahelian Security College (CSS) and delivered to fourteen highly motivated students. The instructors came from the EUTM in the guise of the G5S...
Recently EUTM Mali conducted a Basic Military Search Course for 6 trainees of different Gendarmerie units in Koulikoro Training Camp (KTC). The course took place between the 6th and 24th January 2020 and it was delivered by 5 trainers from the Education and Training Task...
At the request of the special police intervention brigade, EUTM and EUCAP provided specific training on basic military topics. Thus, police trainees studied and put into practice movements and intervention tactics in an urban environment, but were also made aware of the threat against IEDs,...
On Sunday 19 January 2020, the Minister of Defence of Portugal, João Gomes Cravinho, accompanied by Ambassador Moreira da Cunha, Special Envoy for the Sahel and General José Nunes da Fonseca, Chief of Staff of the Portuguese Army, travelled to Mali to meet the Portuguese...
In the main square of the Headquarters of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) in Kati, thirteen Bastion vehicles have been handed over to the Joint Force G5 Sahel to equip the FAMa battalions that make up this joint force. Eight are for troop transport, two...
A Mechanized Infantry Course for 24 students (2 NCOs and 22 soldiers) ended on Monday. The students all came from mechanized infantry units equipped with the CASSPIR armored personnel carrier. Their training culminated this week with a full day Exercise. The Exercise incorporated counter-ambush techniques, counter-IED,...
Three lectures were delivered by the Deputy Commander of the Advisory Training Force of EUTM Mali at the Military Schools Directorate (DEM), last 9 of January, to the 32 students (Captains and Majors) that are following the preparatory course previous to the Staff College Course...
The Intelligence Trainers Course. This course was successfully completed 2 January 20 by seven Officers and NCOs of the FAMa. It was organised by EUTM and conducted within the EMGA’s facilities. The aim of the course was to enable them to be responsible for...
A new Command and Control system was presented last week in December at the Joint Operations Centre in Bamako by Colonel-Major Diallo, in the presence of EUTM MALI Force Commander General Ribeiro, to inform the Malian Armed Forces FAMa of the system's capabilities. A leap...
