Webinar | De Balmis a Mali. El Ejército de Tierra, al servicio de la sociedad

Casa África organizes on Friday, March 12, at noon, a new edition of #ÁfricaEsNoticia to learn how an institution greatly linked to the Canarian people, the Army, has worked in this intense and undoubtedly extraordinary last year. 

The Lieutenant General Chief of the Canary Islands, Carlos Palacios Zaforteza, will talk about two of the most important and recent contributions of the Army to Spanish people: on one hand, the Operación Balmis, an unprecedented mobilization of the Armed Forces in which the Army, led by the Lieutenant General - first from Madrid and then from the Canary Islands - mobilized about 115,000 soldiers throughout the Spanish State to collaborate in very different tasks before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, the constant presence - for years now - of the Army in the international mission EUTM-Mali, to help alleviate the insecurity into which various extremist organizations have pushed Mali and the whole Sahel region.

Along with the Lieutenant General we will have Colonel Juan Sevilla, who was the first Spanish colonel Chief of the EUTM training force in Koulikoro; and Liutenant Colonel Alberto Cherino, head of the Canary Islands Helicopter Battalion, based in Los Rodeos, Tenerife, who has recently arrived from his mission at EUTM headquarters in Bamako. The webinar will be hosted and moderated by the General Director of Casa África, José Segura Clavell. 

The event can be followed through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.