EUTM Somalia starts its training activities in Mogadishu

EU News 82/2014

Brussels, 25 February 2014
140225/02

On 24 February, the EU's military training mission for Somalia (EUTM Somalia) started its first “Train the Trainers” course at the Jazeera Training Camp in Mogadishu. The previous day, EUTM Somalia's new Mission Commander, Brigadier General Massimo Mingiardi, was joined for an official ceremony by Somalia's Deputy Minister for Defence, Abdallah Hussein Ali.

This is the first training carried out in Mogadishu by EUTM Somalia since its redeployment from Uganda in December 2013.

Source and additional information:
http://eeas.europa.eu/statements/docs/2014/140225_02_en.pdf

File Photo: View of the Al Jazeera camp. The Al Jazeera camp in Mogadishu built by the African Union (AU) mission to Somalia (AMISOM) with the financial support of the European Union (C)EU, 2012 URL

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