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Latest news from EU peacekeeping missions (CSDP) (January 2020)

(B2) The month of January was calmer on the side of the CSDP missions, some training in Palestine, a training which ends in Mali, and a tribute to the dead in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tribute to the eleven Macedonians who died in the accident of their Mi17 helicopter which brought them back from a mission on January 12, 2008, 12 years ago. Ceremony attended by Ambassador of North Macedonia Ekrem Ebibi and Force Commander General (Austrian) Reinhard Trischak.
(credit: EUFOR Althea)

Bamako (Mali). The trainer of trainers course in intelligence ended on January 2, at the premises of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. The seven officers and non-commissioned officers of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) trained will, in turn, be able to direct and dispense the instruction and training of the combat intelligence function within the FAMa units. " This course is just one step » do we assure EUTM Mali. " But this is the beginning of a very ambitious project in which the FAMa instructors will play the main role in the execution of the training and the preparation of their units. »

Ramallah (West Bank). A group of 36 Palestinian lawyers from the Palestine Bar Association (PBA) in Ramallah, Jericho, Salfit and surrounding areas received a one-day training on money laundering from experts fromEUPOL COPPS from Italy, Sweden and Palestine on January 28. This training follows a similar workshop organized at the end of 2019 for 80 lawyers from Hebron and was delivered in cooperation with the bar association.

(Updated) Bamako (Mali). EUTM Mali. French Colonel Thierry Chipot passed the command baton of the Advisory Task Force of the Malian Army Training Mission (EUTM Mali) to his compatriot Colonel Hubert Doutaud (France), Wednesday (12 February ) at the headquarters in Bamako.

(information compiled by Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)

updated mid february

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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