Mosambik

At least seven people have died in recent jihadi-related violence in northern Mozambique, local sources said Tuesday, as the United Nations said 10,000 people had fled their homes.

Mozambique and Russia have agreed to strengthened ties during a two-day visit of a top Russian politician to Maputo. Both sides signed a deal in Mozambique's capital aimed at strengthening co-operation between the two country's parliaments, including when it comes to information sharing.

At least three people have been beheaded in a new outbreak of Islamist violence in northern Mozambique, police said Wednesday.

The EU may end up spending millions to prop up Rwanda's defence force in Mozambique with non-lethal equipment. An internal paper dated 3 May from its foreign policy branch, the EEAS, bases the idea on the so-called European Peace Facility.

The Council adopted today a decision amending the assistance measure for support to the Mozambican Armed Forces under the European Peace Facility (EPF) adopted in November 2021, adding a further amount of €45 million. This additional support brings overall EPF support for Mozambique to €89 million in total.

Troops from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have achieved some important results in northern Mozambique, where an insurgency has been ongoing since the end of 2017. … However, there are still attacks across the Cabo Delgado province, and the United Nations Refugee Agency has said it would be premature to encourage displaced people to return to their homes. To resolve the crisis, a joint vision for long-term stability is needed that includes all the forces in Mozambique.

One year after brutal attacks by suspected Al Shabab militants began in northern Mozambique, thousands continue to flee ongoing violence in Cabo Delgado province, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.

[…] the arrival in June last year of troops from Rwanda, and then a month later a coalition of southern African countries known as SAMIM, stopped and scattered the insurgents. The war seemed on the way to being won. That’s not the case anymore. Small units of al-Shabab, often no more than a few dozen, are re-terrorising communities.

[..] It is believed that the conflict, which started in October 2017, has displaced over 820,000 people and led to the death of an estimated 3,000 others.

[…] The statement did not offer any reason for the dismissal of the ministers, not did it announce any new appointments or indications on when the vacant positions will be filled.