Niger: Military Aid
(asked on 11th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the training courses provided to Niger's armed forces by the UK since 2018.
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 |