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Africa Subsaharan
British troops have deployed to Sierra Leone in Africa mission to halt migrants coming to Europe
2017-01-07
[DailyMail]
  • Some 90 UK soldiers have joined local troops in the jungle for the first time

  • Two thirds of Britain's global training team effort is now in the continent

  • Whitehall sources said helping with stability in Africa would lead to fewer migrant push factors
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  I can't imagine that 90 is meant to be the two thirds, Besoeker, but that ninety plus the other teams elsewhere on the continental together make up the two thirds. Since I have no idea where else British teams might be in Africa, nor what else they might be doing wherever they are, I have no idea how to calculate a total. This makes me sad only because I used to be pretty good at algebra. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-01-07 22:18  

#1  Two thirds of Britain's global training team effort is now in the continent

Hopeless mission aside, are we to understand that the British 'Global Training Team' consists of a total of less than 150 personnel, or is that just the Sierra Leone or African contingent ?

Understand there have been MOD cutbacks but that seems like a paltry number in any case.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-01-07 03:02  

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