VOA's Carla Babb interviews Sergeant Major of the Malawi Defense Force
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Channel: VOA Africa · 2018 · News & Politics
Last week, we told you about U.S. military’s new Africa enlisted development strategy. The plan by U.S. Africa command expands education initiatives for non-commissioned military officers, those troops who typically carry out the military’s missions ordered. In its first year the plan focuses on four countries—Ghana, Botswana, Liberia and Malawi, home to the first U.S.-military-supported non-commissioned officer academy on the continent. VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb sat down with warrant officer class one George Bisalomu, the Sergeant Major of the Malawi Defense Force, to discuss the importance of the U.S. training there and how one of Africa’s safest countries is preparing for future threats.
