Morocco Trains African Commandos to Counter the Destabilizing Actions

Morocco has military and security partnerships with the African countries, in particular with Ivory Coast.

Since the time when, under the late King Hassan II, the guards close to many African heads of state, were commanded by Moroccan experts and until today, military schools of the kingdom, offer several teaching positions to cadets from several African countries.

This is the case, at the Meknes Royal Military Academy, the Royal School of air Marrakech, Casablanca Royal Naval School and the royal college of higher military education of Kenitra.

This military cooperation granted by Morocco to its African partners, takes a more practical and adapted twist, in the era of threats in the West African region to daech, Boko Haram, where the remains of Algerian terrorist groups like AQIM or Al Morabitoun.

Thus, Ivorian soldiers drastically selected to form a body of elite commandos have been trained since 2011 in FAR in Morocco.

According to the French magazine Jeune Afrique, the new elite units of the Ivorian army, a hundred individuals, will have to specialize in combat in hostile environments and be mobilized to counter attacks and other destabilizing actions came from the neighboring Liberia.

According to the same source, other units receive training in China and US will need to be mobilized and in other regions of the country.