{"id":245365,"date":"2022-12-12T15:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/niger-european-union-establishes-a-military-partnership-mission-to-support-the-country-in-its-fight-against-terrorism?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:48:49","slug":"niger-european-union-establishes-a-military-partnership-mission-to-support-the-country-in-its-fight-against-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/niger-european-union-establishes-a-military-partnership-mission-to-support-the-country-in-its-fight-against-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: European Union establishes a military partnership mission to support the country in its fight against terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/15aaba0d3d37803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/15aaba0d3d37803\" alt=\"Council of the European Union\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/15aaba0d3d37803\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=229992&amp;press_source=Council of the European Union\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Council today adopted a decision establishing a Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) military partnership mission to support Niger in its&nbsp;<strong>fight against terrorist armed groups<\/strong>. It will &nbsp;enhance the ability of Niger Armed Forces to contain the threat,&nbsp;<strong>protect the population<\/strong>&nbsp;in the country and ensure a&nbsp;<strong>safe and secure environment<\/strong>&nbsp;in compliance with human rights law and international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>EUMPM Niger&nbsp;<\/strong>will help implement a Nigerien capacity building plan, by supporting the establishment of the&nbsp;<strong>Centre for the Training of the Technicians of the Armed Forces<\/strong>. It will provide advice and&nbsp;<strong>specialised training<\/strong>&nbsp;on request to the Niger Armed Forces&rsquo; specialists, and support the creation of a&nbsp;<strong>new communication and command support battalion<\/strong>. This will be done in conjunction with the&nbsp;<strong>European Peace Facility<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>assistance measure<\/strong>&nbsp;adopted on 18 July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate of the mission, designed in close consultations with Niger authorities, will initially last&nbsp;<strong>three years<\/strong>, and the financial reference amount for the common costs for this period will be&nbsp;<strong>EUR 27,3 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>mission commander<\/strong>&nbsp;of EUMPM Niger will be the Director of the Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC),&nbsp;<strong>Vice Admiral Herv&eacute; Bl&eacute;jean<\/strong>. The Mission Force Headquarters will be located in Niger.<\/p>\n<p>EUMPM Niger will closely coordinate with EUCAP Sahel Niger to reinforce the interoperability between Niger&#039;s security and defence forces. The Mission will also coordinate its activities with Member States&#039; activities in Niger and, as appropriate, with like-minded partners which support the capacity-building plan of the Niger Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Council of the European Union.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The Council today adopted a decision establishing a Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) military partnership mission to support Niger in its&nbsp;fight against terrorist armed groups. It will &nbsp;enhance the ability of Niger Armed Forces to contain the threat,&nbsp;protect the population&nbsp;in the country and ensure a&nbsp;safe and secure environment&nbsp;in compliance with human rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-245365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/niger-european-union-establishes-a-military-partnership-mission-to-support-the-country-in-its-fight-against-terrorism.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}