At dawn the MFCdr Brigadier General Fernando Luis Gracia Herreiz and his CPT left Bamako for what should become a memorable day at the Koulikoro Training Camp, separated 60 kms from the MFHQ. The special visit of the MFCdr included an attendance to a formal Medal...
The EUTM Mali continues to provide training in GAO. This week was dedicated to training in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), tactical driving, tactical progressions, reaction to contact at platoon level and C-IED training. The IHL training’s purpose is to give trainees the knowledge on laws of...
Colonel Vincent HENKINET is the new commander of the Advisory Task Force embedded in the European Training Mission Mali. Colonel HENKINET, Belgian Army, received command of the Advisory Task Force on 23 January 2021 from Colonel David PAWLOWSKI (FRA). Colonel HENKINET commented after accepting command of the...
On January 22, 2021 in Koulikoro, Colonel Rafael Dengra Tello (Spain) took over as Head of the Educational and Training Task Force (ETTF). The Colonel replaced Lieutenant Colonel San Martin who held the position on a temporary basis. In his speech, the Colonel highlighted the...
https://youtu.be/zZGzjAE3yAA The Change of Command (CoC) ceremony of the EUTM Mali Mission Force Commander, between Brigade General František Ridzák (Czech Republic) and Brigade General Fernando Luis Gracia Herreiz (Spain), took place on 12 January 2021 at the EUTM Mali Headquarters in Bamako. The official CoC ceremony was...
The Ministry of Defence of Veterans Affairs (MDAC) in collaboration with the staffs, directorates, services of the Malian Armed Forces and technical support of the European Union Training Mission Mali (EUTM Mali) created a working group on promotion of gender within the Malian Armed Forces...
On January 7 2021, in the presence of EUTM Mali and FAMa officers and contractors, General František RIDZÁK, Mission Force Commander of EUTM Mali, Colonel Daoud Aly MOHAMMEDINE, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces and Colonel Elhalifa COULIBALY, Director of Transmissions and...
The change of command between the outgoing Deputy Mission Commander (DCOM), Colonel Vicente Infante Oliveras (Spain) and the incoming DCOM, Colonel Eckard Böddeker (Germany) took place today at the Mission Force Headquarters in Bamako. The change of command was executed during a formal ceremony. Present...
This time, as a consequence of the decentralized activities that EUTM Mali is conducting in several areas of Mali, the courses took place at the Gendarmerie School in Bamako and the Non-Commissioned Officers' (NCO) School in Banankoro. The course at the Gendarmerie School, the third in...
By the end of this year, the beginning of the operational cycle, the Malian Armed Forces (MaAF) will need to train several new companies with personnel recently recruited. In November, EUTM Mali instructors observed and mentored the training of the first company in Sévaré, as...
