Word: benguema
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...visitors and turn pink in the midday sun; their Sierra Leonean counterparts sport whatever fatigues are available, and they don't smile too much - but neither would you if you'd just returned from years fighting some of the toughest rebels in the world. And here, at the Benguema training center on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, the soldiers' chiseled black faces are working up a serious sweat as they train under Britain's watchful...
...evacuate its own nationals. Since then, though, some 600 soldiers have stayed on to train Sierra Leone's army. It's a huge challenge. "Some are bright; some can't read or write, some can't speak English," says Major Tim Radford, head of the senior leadership cadre at Benguema. "It's a mixed bag really...
...Mike Scarff, commander of the training company at Benguema agrees that leadership has been a problem. As has been "encouraging them to work as an effective, cohesive unit rather than a group of individuals." Fitness is also a worry. Official rations in the Sierra Leone army are a bread roll and coffee for breakfast and then some rice and beans in the later afternoon. That leaves the troops with "no reserves of energy" says Scarff...
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