Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire

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Ivory Coast flag Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire
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Commander in Chief : Alassane Ouattara
Defense Minister: Paul Koffi
Military Commander: Chief of Staff Vagondo Diomandé (since December 2, 2013)
Military strength
Active soldiers: 60,000
Reservists: 12,000
Conscription: until 1996
Eligibility for military service: 18 years
household
Military budget: $ 127.7 million
Share of gross domestic product : 1.3%
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The Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire ( FACI ) are the armed forces of the Ivory Coast and are composed of the following four armed forces:

Armed forces

army

The army in its entirety comprises:

  • High Command of the Army (Etat-major de l'armée de terre (EMAT))
  • Inspection of the army (l'inspection de l'Armée de terre)
  • Personnel Office of the Army (la direction des ressources humaines de l'armée de terre (DRHAT, formerly DPMAT))
  • the group
  • Territorial administration - five regions
  • other services
  • Departments responsible for personnel training and military training

All these branches are subordinate to the commander-in-chief of the army (chef d'état-major de l'armée de terre (CEMAT)).

The army consists of 30,000 active soldiers and 12,000 reservists who can be used for operational tasks.

The beret , which is worn as follows, serves as a distinguishing feature for the troops :

  • In blue with the badge on the right side for the infantry and pioneers .
  • In black with the badge on the right for the heavy artillery (l'artillerie lourde) and the armored battalions (bataillons blindés).
  • In red with the badge on the right for the commandos and airborne troops .

Marine national

The Ivory Coast Navy monitors a coastline of 520 kilometers in length. Most of the units are stationed at the Lokodjro naval base in the area of ​​the former capital Abidjan .

equipment

  • A patrol boat of the Vigilant class (type PR-48) Made in France, putting 1976 Déplacement: 250 t Crew: 34 soldiers Armament: 2 x 40 mm Bofors + 2 × machine guns M2 .
  • Two PATRA class patrol boats: L'Ardent and L'Intrépide. Commissioned in 1978. Deplacement: 148 t, crew: 19 soldiers, armament: 1 × 40 mm Bofors + 1 × machine cannons 20 mm + 2 × machine guns 7.62 mm.
  • Two fisheries protection boats Type Rodman 890. putting 1997th
  • A landing ship of batral-class landing ship L'Éléphant. Commissioned in 1977. Déplacement: 1330 t, crew: 39 soldiers, transport capacity: 350 tons of material or 129 soldiers + 180 tons of material (for shore landings).
  • Two CTM (Chalands de Transports de Matériel - material handling barges) Aby. and Tiagha . Commissioned in 1968, displacement: 150 t.

Armée de l'air - Air Force

The "Groupement aérien de transport et de liaison" (GATL) focuses on logistics and transport rather than combat operations. In 2004, French blue helmet soldiers destroyed all aircraft belonging to the Ivorian armed forces, including two Sukhoi Su-25s and three Mil Mi-24 attack helicopters .

In January 2005, however, a Mi-24 and the two Sukhoi were restored, and a BAC Strikemaster was also in use without this having been approved by ONUCI .

National gendarmerie

The “Gendarmerie nationale ivoirienne” is structured on the French model and has to meet the security needs of the Ivorian population. Its tasks have intensified, especially since the military crisis. But the task of the police is and will remain their most important, especially in rural areas. The gendarmerie is headed by a lieutenant general . In times of crisis, she can be deployed alongside other FANCI forces for national defense.

The gendarmerie is assigned 1,800 replacement personnel every year, who are trained in the two schools in Abidjan and Toroguhé.

Troop strength

Général Soumaila Bakayoko, Supreme Commander of the "New Ivorian Armed Forces" (Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire - FNS) in 2009 while pacing an honor formation in Odienné .

In December 2010, the "Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire" consisted of a total of 60,000 soldiers. This included 12,000 reservists and 2,500 Republican Guard soldiers.

  • Air force: 12,000 soldiers
  • Navy: 3000 soldiers
  • Army: 30,000 soldiers
  • Gendarmerie: 15,000 soldiers

The strength of the troops was deliberately kept low by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , as he believed that this would reduce the risk of a coup d'état.

The instability caused by the economic crisis and the Ivorian crisis then led to the 2004 coup, in which former commander-in-chief Robert Guéï was also involved, and the air strikes on the rebel quarters in the vicinity of the French forces in Bouake in November 2004 .

It is currently difficult to determine the actual strength of the troops after the 2010-2011 crisis.

After the advance of the troops from Alassane Ouattara on Abidjan in March 2011, the leadership of the armed forces was unclear at that time. Some media reported that the garbage of several officers, including Army Chief Philippe Mangou , may have been replaced by général de corps d'armée Dogbo Blé Brunot . He was the commander of the Republican Guard before the fall of Laurent Gbagbo . After the end of the crisis from 2010 to 2011, Alassane Ouattara reunited the armed forces of the Forces républicaines (FRCI), or the Forces nouvelles and the former FDS, previously “Armée nationale” (FANCI). In a decree, Ouattara ordered all members of the Ivory Coast military to submit themselves to the FRCI.

The basis of the new army is the Ouagadougou Treaty of 2007, which laid down the end of the civil war from 2002 to 2007 and in which Article 3 calls for the dissolution of all militias and their integration into a new army.

Soumaila Bakayoko has been commander in chief of the Ivorian armed forces since the merger of the two warring armies in 2011 .

The armed forces are composed of:

  • Army (les Forces Républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire) - subordinate to the Ministry of Defense
  • Police forces (la Police nationale) - subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior
  • Forest Police (la Police forestière) - subordinate to the Ministry of Development
  • Customs (les Douanes ivoiriennes) - subordinate to the Ministry of Economy and Finance

Military regions

The Ivory Coast is divided into five military regions, each of which is under the command of a colonel .

The "1 re région militaire" with the staff and garrison in Abidjan is subordinate to most of the armed forces:

The "2 e région militaire" in Daloa is subordinate to a battalion of infantry.

The "3 e région militaire" in Bouaké is subordinate to an infantry battalion with garrison in Anyama , an artillery battalion and an engineer battalion in Adjamé .

The "4 e région militaire" in Korhogo is subordinate to a territorial company.

The "5 e région militaire" was only temporarily set up in the west because of the civil war in Liberia .

Special forces

The politico-military crisis led to the creation of Ivorian special forces. Their existence and troop strength had been classified as "secret".

  • FUSCOA - "Fusiliers commandos de l'air" (Air Force). Built on the model of the French "Commandos de l'air" with a garrison in Bouaké .
  • DMIR - "Détachement mobile d'intervention rapide" (Army). Compiled from the best soldiers in the army. Merged by the high command from the “Office de force antiterroriste” and the “Force de réaction rapide”.
  • FUMACO - "Fusilier marin commando" (marine). Navy special forces. The task was to protect the ports and destroy enemy ships. They had a number of combat swimmers.
  • UIGN - "Unité d'intervention de la gendarmerie nationale". Based on the model of the French GIGN , they provide the anti-terrorism forces.

After the establishment of the "Forces républicaines de Côte-d'Ivoire", the commander in chief decided to reorganize the Forces spéciales. For this purpose, the best soldiers from FUSCOA, DMIR, and FUMACO were selected and combined to form the new GFS ( Groupement des Forces Spéciales ).

There is no official information about the exact task definition and the troop strength. What is certain, however, is that the fight against the growing terrorism in this region of Africa (especially the crisis in Mali and the infiltration of the AQMI into the Maghreb region ) will be one of the main tasks.

The JRC differs from the other units in that:

  • the red beret, with the badge on the left
  • the march at a pace of 80 paces per minute
  • there is no music for the parade march, the soldiers sing in a choir
  • the different pattern of the camouflage suit

At the moment there are no statements about a future base for the troops. In the groupement there are paratroopers, combat swimmers and specialists of all kinds (explosives experts, snipers, scouts, specialized telecommunications, etc.) who work together in small units that are able to act completely independently over several months in enemy territory.

The JRC reports directly to the Commander in Chief.

medical corps

There are two military hospitals (Hôpital militaire) in the country, one of which is in Abidjan.

Rearmament program

The Ivory Coast Armed Forces have made significant arms purchases since the 2002 crisis and have:

  • Artillery:
    • an unknown number and types of anti-tank guided missiles
    • an unknown number of M46 cannons (130mm M-46 cannon), RussiaRussiaRussia 
    • 6 BM-21 (LRM), RussiaRussiaRussia 
    • an unknown number and model of motorized howitzers (obusiers automoteurs) of 122 mm caliber with a stock of about 5000 shells
    • 200 mortars of caliber 120 and 82 mm
    • about 30 automatic cannons of caliber 20 and 23 mm
    • an unknown number of 90 mm caliber cannons
  • Transport capacities:
    • 200 trucks to move troops

The Ivorian army was trained by 46 Israeli military advisors in the operation of the drones sold by Israel to Ivory Coast. The advisors left the country on November 9, 2004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.infodirecte.net/?news=Actualite&s=National&item=1943
  2. ^ Les Forces armées nationales de Côte d'Ivoire FANCI reviennent, les Frci c'est fini. on: connectionivoirienne.net , September 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ hazegray.org
  4. ↑ (The soldier's rifle on the far right in the first row has no trigger!)
  5. ↑ Etat major des Armées / Mangou s'en va, Dogbo Blé arrive? accessed on January 26, 2017
  6. ↑ d'Ivoire: Philippe Mangou de retour chez Gbagbo ( Memento of the original of March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afriscoop.net
  7. ↑ Ouattara signs decree to unify Cote d'Ivoire's security forces. (No longer available online.) In: SousLeManguier. March 18, 2011, archived from the original on January 9, 2012 ; accessed on March 22, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / english.souslemanguier.com
  8. ↑ a b c which type it is is unknown
  9. ↑ called heavy artillery - l'artillerie lourde
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