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Niger: Military Aid

Answer

The list below outlines our record of the training courses provided by the UK to Niger between April 2018 and July 2023. Following the 26 July 2023 coup in Niger, the UK Ministry of Defence halted all bilateral security cooperation with Niger's armed forces.

Course start date	Course
2018, 2019	Managing Defence in Wider Security Context (Export), Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
2018	Strategic Leadership Programme, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
2018	Advanced Staff Course, Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021	Basic Officer Training, Senegalese Military Training School
2018	Intermediate Staff Course, Horton Command and Staff College
2019, 2020	Advanced Command and Staff Course, UK Defence Academy
2020	Commissioning Course, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
2021, 2022	Information Operations and Strategic Communications training to the Lake Chad Basin Multinational Joint Taskforce
2021	Professional Officer Development, Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College
2021, 2022	Combat Medic training provided to the Lake Chad Basin Multinational Joint Task Force
2021	Civil military cooperation (CIMIC) training, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
2022	Operational Planning course, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
2022	Counter-IED training provided to the Lake Chad Basin Multinational Joint Task Force
2022	Managing Defence in Wider Security Context, Cranfield University
2022	Operational Intelligence and Imagery Analysis training provided to the Lake Chad Basin Multinational Joint Task Force
2022	CIMIC workshop provided to the Lake Chad Basin Multinational Joint Taskforce

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

198906

Session

2022-23

Subjects

Armed forces Training Niger Military aid

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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