By RFIPosted on 14-10-2018Modified on 14-10-2018 at 23:59

In Nouakchott, Mauritania, it's back to school for the officers of the G5 Sahel Defense College. A little less than forty students from the five countries of the region join this Monday, October 15 the banks of the "school of war", for a follow-up operational and academic training of 9 months.

The establishment of the G5 Sahel Defense College is a political will of the countries of the region, some of which already had " pedagogical " tools, which the G5 allowed to " revitalize " as the Sahelian College of Security in Bamako , the Sahelian Threat Analysis and Early Warning Center and the Nouakchott-based Defense College. The G5 Sahel defense college was in the cards even before the formation of the joint force. Its creation was one of the first decisions validated by the G5.

Basically, the College of Defense is a Mauritanian initiative, presented as the first transnational war school in the world. The buildings came out of land funded by a Gulf country. It is the Mauritanian brigade general Brahim Vall who is at his head. The project has been supported since its inception by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says one in Paris, with an investment of one million euros since the departure and the establishment of a French cooperant.

According to our information, the annual budget for the operation of the establishment would be 800,000 euros. From Monday, the serious things begin for the 37 trainees of the very first promotion.

These officers from the five G5 countries all have 15 to 20 years of experience in their country's forces and are on school benches to train in the high military command and coaching to allow the G5 to have executives able to organize operations, manage logistics and conduct combat missions in compliance with the law of armed conflict.

In the long term, the school should make it possible to reinforce the cooperation and the effectiveness of the armies of the G5, provided that the transplant takes, because it is not easy to make work together officers who do not necessarily have the same culture and the same language, not to mention the cost of flying students from across the region.

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