Eurocorps to command EUTM mission in Mali

Around 50 Eurocorps members will be engaged in Mali during the latter half of 2015 to take command, alongside Germany, of the European Union Training Mission for Mali's armed forces (EUTM Mali). They will be assigned for six months to Bamako to provide monitoring and coordination of this training and operational advisory mission in place since 2013 and scheduled to continue into 2016. EUTM Mali mobilises 570 European troops from 22 contributing countries. A total of 3,400 Malian troops, divided…