Nov 18 - Regiment Exercise Jebel Sahara Strengthens Britain – Morocco Ties
The Royal Gibraltar Regiment (RG) are currently strengthening Britain’s longstanding diplomatic relationship with Morocco through Exercise Jebel Sahara, a joint training exercise with the Moroccan Deuxieme Brigade d’Infanterie Parachutiste (2BIP).
Now in its 13th year, the month-long exercise is based a few miles north of Marrakech and involves 161 members of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, including 49 augmented from the UK, and 200 soldiers from 2BIP.
Ahead of Tuesday’s match against Slovakia, the Gibraltar Football Association’s A Squad gathered at the Gibraltar International Airport on Saturday to bid fairwell to the community as they embarked on a four hour coach journey to Algarve Portugal. The team will carry out a number of training sessions before the match on Tuesday evening at 7:25pm Gibraltar time. GBC will live stream the event.
The vessel Norstar, berthed at the Detached Mole, has been engaged to act as a holding barge for the dredged material arising from the dredge of Ocean Village basin.
