21/06/15 Following a 5-month intensive training programme, the 890 men of the Congolese contingent trained by Sovereign Global France (SGF) for the MINUSCA are now ready for deployment in Central Africa Republic.
On September 12th 2014 the Republic of Congo and Sovereign Global France (SGF) signed a contract providing Congo with training and assistance services to bring a 750-strong infantry battalion (INFBAT) and a 140-strong Formed Police Unit (FPU) up to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations’ standards for the MINUSCA.
Sovereign Global France then deployed in Congo two entire teams of instructors to reinforce the operational capacities of the two units with a 5-month training programme in three fields: general instruction (police and crowd-control for the FPU, infantry for the INFBAT), specialist training (combat first aid, counter-IED, topography…) and UN logistics (contingent support, UN logistics chain and operational maintenance of the equipment).
These two units passed end of May and beginning of June 2015 the UN pre-deployment visit in Brazzaville, leading to the qualification of the entire Congolese contingent for the MINUSCA.
Mr. Charles Richard Mondjo, Minister of Defence of the Republic of the Congo, seized this opportunity to declare in presence of the French and the US embassies’ representatives that he was “fully satisfied with the quality of the training provided by Sovereign Global France”.
