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The U.S. provided small-boat river patrol training to Nigerien forces

Kazim Abdul by Kazim Abdul
October 7, 2021
in Naval, Security
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The United States Naval Small Craft Instruction & Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS) provided special river-based training to Nigerien naval forces.

The training which took place on the Niger River was carried out by a mobile team from the U.S. Naval Small Craft Instruction & Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS), according to the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).

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The Lake Chad region, which Niger shares with Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, has become a haven for extremists operating in all four countries and beyond. U.S. African Command

“It was designed to build a force of Niger-based instructors who could train future troops in patrol techniques.” Says Africa Defense Forum on September 29.

“The training was very important to us because our unit is the first of that kind in our country’s history,” Lt. Abdoul Rachid Amadou Abdou of the Nigerien Special Operations Forces Amphibious Company told ADF. “It taught us many skills we needed.”

The new training will enhance Niger’s ability to confront extremists in the shallow waters of Lake Chad as part of the G5 Sahel Joint Force. U.S. African Command

A Nigerien combat platoon that took part in the training had earlier been part of seven weeks of training exercises in the U.S.

The small-boat exercises focused on building skills needed to stop illegal trafficking along shallow inland waterways. Troops learned how to prevent illicit drugs and other operations centered on counterterrorism and waterborne special operations.

Team members also learned how to insert and extract teams by boat and react to ambushes, Abdoul said.

“The people who took part in the training will put the skills to work to achieve all missions successfully and to teach them to other teammates at the base,” he said.

The waterborne training will enhance Niger’s ability to confront extremists in the shallow waters of Lake Chad as part of the G5 Sahel Joint Force.

AFRICOM is a crucial partner of the G5 Sahel Joint force made up of 5,000 troops from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.

In April, AFRICOM transferred 16 Mamba APCs to support joint-force G5 Sahel efforts in northern Niger to combat counterterrorism, transnational organized crime, and trafficking.

In a similar fashion, AFRICOM delivered the first batch of $21 million military equipment to the Nigerien military in July 2019, the newly delivered equipment includes transport, fuel, and water trucks; GPS-enabled navigation systems; fuel containers; military tents and individual soldier equipment.

The US had earlier provided a $16.5 million command and control centre, which comprises of a new building, two deployable tactical operations centres, specialised communications equipment and radios.

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