[In short] The Mistral monitoring and training in the Gulf of Guinea

(B2) The French Navy helicopter carrier Mistral starts its maritime security mission Corymbe in the Gulf of Guinea.

It will provide both maritime surveillance of the area and interventions if necessary in the event of pirate attacks (read: [Brief] Attack on a fishing boat off Freetown). The objective is above all to ensure a partnership with the navies of the region.

In a week, on August 27, he will leave Dakar (Senegal) with around thirty naval officers from the region (Benin, DR Congo, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal , Togo, Morocco) to start the SIREN on-board training dedicated to the State at sea, co-organized within the framework of Yaoundé Architecture.

(NGV)