On February 11, 2020 the Collège de Défense G5 Sahel visited the EUTM/Mali Mission Force Headquarters in Bamako. Created in 2016 and located in Nouakchott, Mauritania, the Collège de Défense G5 Sahel was designed to train Army Officers from G5 Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Chad,...
Whilst centralised training activities, in the shape of courses in Koulikoro Training Camp continues, EUTM Mali also concentrates its focus on the decentralisation of the training and advising activities. To date EUTM Mali has carried out 22 Combined Mobile Advisory and Training Teams (CMATTs) in...
EUTM Mali conducted one Intervention Group Course for 42 trainees of the National Guard in two different places, the National Guard Camp at Bamako and at Kati Training Area. The course took place between the 13th and 31th January 2020. The course was taught by...
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,...
