MONUSCO trains FARDC officers in Dungu on how to use GPS equipment

Dungu, 8 October 2013 – Congolese armed Force (FARDC) officers In Dungu, Haut-Uélé district, in the Eastern province were trained by the Guatemalan peacekeepers of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) on the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS).

The training ended on 8 October 2013. Altogether twenty officers were awarded certificates after receiving the training in an official ceremony, during which Colonel Luis Fortunato Ochao Escambia, Guatemalan contingent Special Force commander, announced that more training sessions would be organized for other FARDC elements.

Colonel Fortunato further said an effective use of the GPS equipment by deployed officers would help them organize safe military patrols in the field insofar as with the help of the global positioning system or satellite compass they would be able to know their geographic locations at any time.

Colonel Nasibu Babu Nadoo, FARDC commander of the Dungu operational sector, for his part, thanked Guatemalan instructors for organizing the training session, recalling that nearly 500 FARDC troops had received similar trainings from Guatemalan peacekeepers in Dungu in the past. Colonel Nasibu also appealed to the trainees to make better use of their knowledge in order to be more efficient in the field and to disseminate the newly acquired knowledge to their respective troops.

Jean-Michel Lybhula M’Opolo/MONUSCO