Top Russia military colonel based in Dakar Yuri Mironenko meets army chief Yakuba Drammeh

Colonel Yuri Mironenko, Military, Air, and Naval Attaché to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Dakar, Senegal, on Tuesday 20 April 2021, paid a courtesy call on the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), Lieutenant General Yakuba A Drammeh at the Defence Headquarters in Banjul, according to the army.

The two men discussed on wide range of issues centering on military-to-military cooperation and capacity building programs, the army said in a statement on its official Facebook page.

It comes amid a top US army general Andrew Rohling meeting with the nation’s top military official Yakuba Drammeh.