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Southern Africa: South Africa Says Send Troops; Tanzania Says No Troops, Instead Negotiate, Develop
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 31 May 2021
South Africa is pressing for urgent military intervention in Cabo Delgado, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told Reuters (21 May) in a telephone interview. Since 2008… Read more »
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Southern Africa: Regional Military Intervention in Mozambique Is a Bad Idea. Here's Why
The Conversation Africa, 27 May 2021
Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi has called an extraordinary summit of the leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) this week. He wants them to deliberate on… Read more »
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Mozambique: Mozambique's Difficult Decade - Three Lessons to Inform Next Steps
The Conversation Africa, 31 May 2021
At the start of the last decade, Mozambique's prospects looked stellar. Following from the early 1990s, when peace finally arrived after a devastating and protracted armed… Read more »
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Mozambique: African Leaders Reaffirm Support for Mozambique
SAnews.gov.za, 28 May 2021
The Double Troika Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has reaffirmed its solidarity with Mozambique, and its continued… Read more »
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Southern Africa: SADC Vows to Stamp Out Terrorism
The Herald, 28 May 2021
Lincoln Towindo recently in MAPUTO, Mozambique Read more »
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Southern Africa: What Would It Take to Stabilise Cabo Delgado?
ISS, 27 May 2021
Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province is caught up in a security challenge that has captured global attention. The situation endangers tens of thousands of lives and has destabilised… Read more »
SADC Holds Off on Military Action in Mozambique - Here's Why
South Africa is pressing for urgent military action by SADC to quell an insurgency in Mozambique threatening to destabilize neighbouring countries, the country's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, is reported to have said ahead of a summit of SADC's 16 member states.
But not everyone thinks that's the best of ideas to stabilise the southern African country. The Tanzania government has, instead, emphasised the need for talks as a means of promoting peace in Mozambique, calling on the international community to help the country by sending development aid.
SADC leaders have been discussing how to tackle the insurgency by militants in Cabo Delgado, with an option for force, but this is the first time South Africa has explicitly thrown its weight behind the idea of a military intervention. The militants have stepped up violence in the past year with more sophisticated attacks, delaying construction of a new U.S.$20 billion liquefied natural gas project run by French oil major, Total that declared a force majeure on the new build.
InFocus
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President Filipe Nyusi, in his capacity as the current chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has called an extraordinary summit of the "Double Troika" ... Read more »
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White contractors were prioritised for evacuation ahead of Black locals during a rescue operation following an attack in March 2021 by insurgents on the Mozambican town of Palma, Read more »
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Since October 2017, the northern province of Mozambique, Cabo Delgado has been suffering violent attacks from an armed group. Over 2020, these Read more »
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Sabotage by the insurgents operating in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, has deprived much of the province of electrical power, reports the independent daily O ... Read more »
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The SADC's communiqué after its April 8, 2021 meeting in response to the Palma attack, said the "heinous attacks cannot be allowed to continue without a proportionate ... Read more »
