Press Release
TPDF Officers Participate in Military to Military Peace Keeping Operations Lessons Learned Workshop
April 28, 2008
Two military officers of the Tanzania Peoples Defence Forces (TPDF) are in Accra, Ghana through a U.S. Department of Defense sponsored four-day workshop. Lt Col Emmanuel D. Kadaso and Major John M. Mwaipaya, are participating in the U.S.-sponsored Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) Lessons Learned workshop. The workshop started today, Monday, April 28 and concludes later this week, on Thursday, May 1, 2008.
According to a U.S. Embassy statement, Lt. Col. Kadaso, a staff officer at the TPDF Headquarters in Dar es Salaam, and Major Mwaipaya, a commanding officer, will train using U.S. Army methods on how to disseminate lessons learned from exercises, operations and training events with its units and organization across the Army.
The TPDF officers will especially benefit from lessons learned from Peacekeeping Operations (PKO), Peace Enforcement Operations (PEO) and Counter-Insurgency Operations (COIN). These operations relate to what is taking place in several African countries presently.
By conducting this workshop in Ghana, the U.S. is demonstrating AFRICOM assistance to its African partner nations. U.S. AFRICOM wishes to enhance the capabilities of its African partner nations Standby Forces, in this case by helping nations establish processes for capturing their PKO and PEO lessons learned for future use.
Financial support for this workshop comes from the American people and is part of overall U.S. Government direct and multilateral assistance to Tanzania of more than half a billion U.S. Dollars (over 750 billion Tanzanian shillings) in 2008. For further information on this and other activities, please visit us at http://tanzania.usembassy.gov.