By Lamin Njie
Senegal’s army chief General Birame Diop met with with the nation’s foremost military official on Tuesday at the border in Farafenni, army spokesman Lamin Sanyang has confirmed to The Fatu Network.
Diop was nominated to the role of army chief of Senegal last year.
“When he heard the CDS is on a tour he seized on that opportunity to meet him to discuss issues of defence and security and also to discuss on strengthening their relationship,” Major Lamin K Sanyang said.
“The proposals are to look at further joint training and exercises between the two armed forces and also joint patrols, and also the implementation of the hot pursuit.”
According to the army spokesman, the condition for the joint hot pursuit has to do with the setting up of a joint technical committee.
“That’s what the CDS alluded to, that we need to work on getting the committee before we can go about implementing the hot pursuit,” Major Sanyang said.
