Lieutenant General Abdoulaye Fall, chief of defense staff, Senegalese Armed Forces, made history yesterday, by becoming the first African defense chief to visit US Africa Command headquarters.
Fall attended an office call with General William E. Ward, commander, US Africa Command, and held briefings and discussions with other senior leaders from the command.
"I’m very committed to keep on sharing this partnership with AFRICOM," said Fall.
Six other senior Senegalese military officials also visited the command headquarters February 8-11, to discuss security cooperation goals and plan future activities with the command and its service components.
"I can say that all the activities that have planned, well, we receive them very positively and I commit myself and my armed forces to participate in them," Fall said.
The delegation received in-depth briefings on various command programs and toured component headquarters Marine Corps Forces Africa and Special Operations Command Africa. The Senegalese officials, representatives from Senegal’s various Armed Forces branches (Navy, Army, Air Force and Gendarmerie), also shared information about their programs and activities.
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