Teacher: In this task, you are given a sentence in the Romanian language. Your job is to translate the Romanian sentence into the English language.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Un bărbat pune brânză mărunțită pe o pizza.
Solution: A man is spreading shreded cheese on a pizza.
Reason: In the given translation process, the tense of both sentences, quantitative measures, entity name, the polarity of the sentence remains the same.

Now, solve this instance: În timp ce alte părți ale Africii au fost utilizate ca terenuri de organizare a grupului terorist, Malawi nu fusese anterior un obiectiv major al investigațiilor asupra al-Qaida.
Student:
While some other parts of Africa have been used as staging grounds for the terror group, Malawi previously had not been a major focus of investigations into al-Qaida.