EU to finalise EUTM mission in Niamey

EU seeks military personnel for new training mission in Niger 

The EU has launched an internal force generation campaign to identify member states willing to deploy military personnel to Niger as part of a training mission to support the Niger Armed Forces (FAN).

France to provide Burkina Faso with military and financial support 

While France has just completed its withdrawal from Mali, Paris is preparing to provide nearly €15m in budgetary aid to Ouagadougou. It is also considering a military support programme to strengthen Burkina Faso's armed forces as they face increased threats from Islamist militant groups.

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EU scales back EUTM-MALI mission even further as rift with junta grows 

With relations between Brussels and Bamako showing no sign of mending, the EU has decided to halve the size of its military training mission in Mali, which has now been whittled down to 300 soldiers.

N'Djamena urges Glencore to settle its staff accounts before Perenco transfer 

PetroChad Mangara's management (PCM - Glencore Group) has not yet finished the process of transferring its Chadian assets to Perenco. Its employees have managed to rally the presidency's secretary general David Houdeingar Ngarimaden.

EU set to suspend military training operations in Mali 

Brussels laid out to the Malian junta its conditions for maintaining its military training operations in the country. But it has had no substantive response from Bamako, and is now expected to announce their suspension.

Faced with Wagner, the EU sets out conditions for staying in Mali 

In a letter sent to Mali's foreign minister on 9 March, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell made the continuation of EU operations in Mali conditional on a strict separation from the activities of the Russian mercenary firm Wagner.