Thanks to an EIFORCES – European Union partnership, security unit commanders from the sub-region received training from 21 to 25 February 2022. 22 police and gendarmerie unit commanders from Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Gabon and Chad were awarded certificates during a solemn closing ceremony presided over by Brigadier General André Patrice BITOTE, Director
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Brigadier General André Patrice BITOTE, Director General of EIFORCES and David LOCHHEAD, Senior Researcher at the Small Arms Survey (SAS) discuss the issue in Awaé. The outcome of a recent study conducted in Cameroon by Dr SUMO TAYO, a Senior Researcher at SAS, the Geneva-based global Centre of Excellence in Small Arms and Light Weapons
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On 17 and 18 February 2022, the EIFORCES campus was the venue for a seminar on Human Rights jointly organised by the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa and the Cameroon Human Rights Commission on the theme: ” Human Rights in counter-terrorism operations “. The target audience, composed of Police officers and
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This 7 February 2022, the Director General of the National Police of Côte d’Ivoire, Mr. KOUYATE Youssouf, on a mission of immersion in Cameroon within the framework of the CAN TotalEnergies Cameroon 2021, paid a working visit to EIFORCES at its Awae Campus. Welcoming his distinguished guest, Brigadier General André Patrice BITOTE, Director General
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As announced during the 29 December 2021 Ordinary Budgetary Session, EIFORCES has established its headquarters in Awaé in the Mefou and Afamba Division for good. This Monday, 3 January 2022, brought an unusual atmosphere to the EIFORCES campus, as the school moved into its newly erected administrative building in Awaé. It was 10.30
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Balancing in revenue and expenditure to FCFA 3 802 713 741 (Three billion eight hundred and two million seven hundred and thirteen thousand seven hundred and forty-one), the EIFORCES 2022 budget has just been voted by Board members during the 29 December 2021 budgetary session held at the Yaoundé Mont FEBE Hotel. Presided over by
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Mr. Kildadi Taguieke Boukar, Governor of the Adamaoua Region, was the first to welcome the EIFORCES delegation to his region, as part of the 8th Higher Degree of Security Studies (BESS 8) internal studies mission. On this occasion, the strong man of the “water tower” Region of Cameroon reminded the 28 auditors from Cameroon,
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The EIFORCES Awaé campus hosted this 3 December 2021 a joint solemn closing ceremony for the Training of Trainers of UN Formed Police Units and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) courses. During this event, Brigadier General BITOTE André Patrice, Director General of EIFORCES, representing the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defence, Board
Read More...This Monday, 29 November 2021, the Director-General of EIFORCES, Brigadier General BITOTE André Patrice, took part in a working meeting with Mr Matthias Z. NAAB, Resident Coordinator, at the United Nations System Common premises in Yaoundé. During the exchanges which focused on the cooperation between the UN and EIFORCES, the Director General, while presenting the
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In a bid to better cope with and take full stock of the harmfulness of IEDs, EIFORCES, in partnership with the Japanese Government via the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), organised an awareness-raising seminar which brought together, from 15 to 19 November 2021 at its Awaé Campus, thirty-five civilians, police officers and gendarmes from Cameroon,
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