Military intelligence officers begin training to tackle terrorism

Cameroon military intelligence officers, in collaboration with the United States Military Cooperation, have begun meeting at the Yaounde Military Staff College in the precincts of the Combined Military Academy, EMIA, in the Melen neighbourhood to upgrade skills on intelligence gathering.

A two-week course to equip them on managing intelligence was opened yesterday, November 11, 2014, by the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Baba Souley, on behalf of Chief of Defence Staff, General René Claude Meka.

Major General Souley noted that course participants were expected to ameliorate their potential in intelligence gathering at a time the country was battling with increasing militancy activities orchestrated by Boko Haram.

He challenged them to remain industrious, snoopy, observant, meticulous and be able to examine data in a bid to remain abreast with intelligence management operations.

The Chief of the Centre for Military Intelligence, Navy Captain Ousmanou Mbouombouo, noted that participants will receive more skills on knowing which information to gun for and where, master the management of information, and plan for information gathering. Navy Captain Mbouombouo said the military officers from Intelligence Battalion units, Army Brigades, Military regions and the Centre for Military Intelligence, were expected to carry on the fight against terrorism through the effective collection, analysis, packaging and dissemination of data.

Major Thomas Brooks of the US Embassy, sitting in for the US Ambassador, Michael Stephen Hoza, said they were committed to countering terrorism. The two-week course ends on November 24, 2014