The National Republican Guard officer José Manuel Marques Dias will lead the European Civil Mission for Crisis Management in the Central African Republic (EUAM-RCA), the corporation reported on Thursday.
The Political and Security Committee of the European Union chose the Portuguese José Manuel Marques Dias, colonel of the GNR, to head the European Mission for Civilian Crisis Management in the Central African Republic”, says that security force in a statement, and He adds that the decision comes after the mandate of the EUAM-RCA mission was formally extended for two years.
The EUAM-RCA is a mission approved by the heads of EU diplomacy with the aim of advising the Minister of the Interior and the security forces of the Central African Republic.
“Portugal, which also has three more GNR officers at the service of the EUAM-RCA mission, as well as soldiers in the EUTM RCA19 military training mission, thus sees its role in the peace process in the Central African Republic reinforced, with the leadership of the EUAM-RCA through Colonel José Dias as head of mission”, highlights the GNR.
The European Mission for Civil Crisis Management in the Central African Republic has the challenge of contributing to the reestablishment of the authority of the Central African State to increase security and stability conditions until the end of next year.
José Dias, born in the Municipality of Valongo and 54 years old, has been in the EUAM RCA mission since March 2020 as strategic advisor on Interoperability with the Armed Forces of that countryhaving previously worked as deputy coordinator of the GARSI SAHEL project in Niger, a project for the creation, formation, training and resource allocation of anti-terrorist units in the Sahel region.
Graduated in Military Sciences from the Military Academy, in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and with a postgraduate degree in Law and Security from the Faculty of Law of the Nova University, José Dias was Operations Officer of the Commanding Operative Corps of the GNR, Logistics Resources and Finance, Human Resources and Justice officer, law professor at the Military Academy, advisor to the Minister of the Interior of Timor-Leste and commander of the territorial detachments of Loures, Alenquer and Grandola.
Portugal also has 203 military personnel from the Armed Forces in CAR and 45 active within the scope of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Mission for the Stabilization of the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
The CAR was plunged into chaos and violence in 2013, after the overthrow of former president François Bozizé by the armed groups of the Séléka coalition, which aroused opposition from other militias, grouped under the anti-Balaka denomination.
Since then, the Central African territory has been the scene of communal clashes between these groups, which have forced almost a quarter of CAR’s 4.7 million inhabitants to flee their homes.
Source: Observadora
