The United States opened a new antiterrorism training facility in Senegal, the first of its kind in West Africa, the US State Department said in a press release on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th September, 2018) The United States opened a new antiterrorism training facility in Senegal, the first of its kind in West Africa, the US State Department said in a press release on Thursday.
"The Department of State and the Government of Senegal today inaugurated a new regional counterterrorism training facility in Thies, Senegal," the release said.
The new $1.5 million Regional Tactical Training Center was funded, constructed and equipped through the State Department's Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) program, the release added.
Once fully operational, the department said the training center will teach skills such as crisis response and rural border patrol operation to Senegalese and other West African law enforcement officers.
The State Department's ATA program has been delivering counterterrorism training in Senegal since 1985.
