East Germany, 1980:

# 2700 German advisors and trainers in Africa (2 Arabian and 5 sub-Saharan countries)
# effective, disciplined in comparison to Cubans, direct training instead of leadership positions as Soviet trainers
# planned Ethiopian offensive against Eritrean rebels
# training army, air forces, domestic intelligence services
# some KIA
# also training Africans in East Germany, including police
# up to 200 million Mark annual military equipment exports, especially infantry equipment
# 60's: Focus on upcoming powers (rebels) who might recognise East Germany as a state when in power
# 70's more geostrategic (supposedly); countries with useful location and neighbourhood
# some payments of East German supplies in form of raw materials (the East Germans had difficulties to import world market goods because of their currency and because the Warsaw Pact/COMECON absorbed most exports)

Plus the usual childish who's-got-more-friends competition.


I looked a bit and found this statement of the German military history research agency;
http://www.mgfa-potsdam.de/html/eins...estorkmann.pdf
They stress that the East Germans had no combat missions, try to downplay the missions after confirming them.


West Germany did afaik also train non-allied foreigners in German language and in military skills before 1990 (100% in West Germany itself).