Mosambik

The Council today adopted a decision launching the European Union Military Training Mission in Mozambique (EUTM Mozambique). The mission will support a more efficient and effective response by the Mozambican armed forces to the crisis in the Cabo Delgado province, by providing them with training and capacity building.

[…] In a statement, the bloc said the meeting had “approved the extension” of the mission “to continue with offensive operations against terrorists and violent extremists to consolidate stability of security.” It did not give a timeframe for the extension.

In northern Mozambique, worrying reports emerged on Tuesday that children as young as five have been shown how to handle weapons and indoctrinated to fight with insurgents. The warning from UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, came as aid access improved to previously inaccessible areas in Cabo Delgado province.

Kagame was on his first visit to the country since the Rwandan deployment two months ago.He said the tr oops were ready to embark on another task of rebuilding and protecting the country.

Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on Tuesday announced that the country's armed forces, with the help of Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) forces, have reclaimed nearly all areas that were seized by militants in Cabo Delgado province.

Much has changed since the Ansar al-Sunna insurgent group in northern Mozambique captured the vital port city of Palma in April 2021. The setback, and subsequent withdrawal of Total Energy from its $20 billion natural gas project in the area, shocked Mozambique’s government after years of underestimating the insurgency, and failed experimentation with mercenaries.

The commander of the Mozambican army, Maj-Gen Cristovao Chume, on Monday declared that the capture by Mozambican and Rwandan forces of the town of Mocimboa da Praia from the islamist terrorists of ISIS was only "the first stage", and the next stage would be "to move forward and secure all the other remaining pockets of the insurgents until the Province is fully under government control".

Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on a visit to the troubled northern Cabo Delgado province Monday, unveiled the Southern African troops sent to fight the region's insurgents. The Southern African Development Community's Standby Force includes troops from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Tanzania.

To support Mozambique’s effort to build its maritime security capacity, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said it has been providing assistance to law enforcement stakeholders and other national institutions in collaboration with regional and international partners and in cooperation with the Government of Mozambique.

South Africa is deploying 1,495 troops to Mozambique to join the standby force of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) assisting the Mozambican government in the fight against terrorism in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. … More troops are expected from other SADC member countries, including Tanzania and Angola, according Mozambique's defence ministry.