A mobile training team (Mobile Training Team/MTT), made up of five military trainers from the Engineer Battalion of the Spanish Army’s XVI ‘Canarias’ Brigade, is giving a course on Countering Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IEDs) in Porto Novo, the capital of Benin.
This is the second course that Spain has given in this African country, as part of the EU Security and Defence Initiative in support of West African countries of the Gulf of Guinea (EU SDI GoG). The first of these, also with military trainers from the ‘Canarias’ XVI Brigade, was the Basic Optical and Atomic Material Maintenance Course, which took place in October 2024.
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Source: European Union External Action
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