09 Jun THE SIGNATURE OF A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT
On 4th June, in a simple but significant ceremony, took place in Bamako, before the Comité Directeur de Coordination, in order to formally handover the Sévaré Operations Center facility, equipped with the Command and Control of Operations (C2OPS) system. This ceremony brought together the Malian Armed Forces (MaAF) Chef d’État-Major Général des Armées, Major General Abdoulaya Coulibaly, EUTM Mali Mission Force Commander (MF Cdr) Brigadier General João Boga Ribeiro, and Colonel Jose Antonio Arauzo, EUTM Mali Deputy MF Cdr and Kingdom of Spain National Senior Representative.
The Kingdom of Spain financially supported the whole project, which was designed by EUTM Mali in coordination with the MaAF, comprising the overall construction of the infrastructure, furniture, communications and computer equipment’s and systems, together with the investment on C2OPS, thus making possible to exchange of information and to conduct operations, running a modern and effective C2 system and therefore enhancing the coordination between the different military regions of Mali.