Some 300 trainees have been trained since 2017 in Abidjan by an International Academy for the Fight against Terrorism (AILCT) whose headquarters are under construction in Côte d'Ivoire, but which is already functioning, according to the Ivorian Minister of Defense Tiéné Birahima Ouattara.
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These trainees from a dozen countries, "
were trained in the fight and management of anti-terrorism crisis
", according to the minister who spoke this week at a conference in Abidjan bringing together experts and senior military officers. Ivorian and French. Brother of the Ivorian Head of State Alassane Ouattara, the Minister of Defense also announced that a “
donors
'
conference
” would take place in Paris in June, “in
order to mobilize funding to increase reception capacities
”. AILCT. The headquarters of the academy is under construction in Jacqueville, near Abidjan, and, according to Tiéné Birahima Ouattara, “
the first infrastructures will be inaugurated in the coming months.
», Which does not prevent it from being already partially operational. The creation of the AICLT in West Africa where several countries are prey to the murderous and destabilizing activities of various jihadist groups - Al-Qaeda, Islamic State (IS), Boko Haram - had been formalized in November 2017 by the French President Emmanuel Macron and his Ivorian counterpart, on the sidelines of a summit between the African Union and the European Union in Abidjan.
When it will be fully operational, the AICLT will include a school for executives of the "
anti-terrorism
"
fight
, a training camp with specific infrastructures and a strategic research institute "
allowing the sharing of doctrines, threat analysis, exchange of feedback between the various partners
”, according to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "
Benefiting from the expertise of the Ministries of Justice and the Interior
" of Côte d'Ivoire, "
AILCT also welcomes permanent French executives
", according to the French ministry. "
The training and training modules will also be given by instructors from France or fromother contributing countries
He adds. France is playing a leading role in the fight against jihadist groups in West Africa through the presence of 5,100 soldiers from the Barkhane force in several countries of the Sahel.
