The EU Training Mission in the Central African Republic (EUTM-RCA) has failed to sufficiently boost the country's security despite five years of effort, according to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who said its overly restrictive mandate needs revising to allow mentoring of Central African Armed Forces (FACA) personnel on the front lines. "The EU has trained thousands of FACA soldiers who are not capable of fighting because the mission's training mandate is not appropriate," Spanish MEP Nart Javier declared during a virtual hearing on the Central African Republic's (CAR's) security, hosted by the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and Sub-committee on Security and Defence on 24 February. "We make the policy here in Brussels, but it is Bangui that sees the deaths. If we are going to do military training in Africa, then we should do it realistically and effectively," he declared.
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