Southern Africa: SADC to Deploy in Mozambique
Southern Africa: SADC to Deploy in Mozambique
5 hours ago
By Darlington Musarurwa
Maputo SADC will urgently resuscitate and capacitate its Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) in order to facilitate deployment in Mozambique, which is presently under siege from insurgents that claim to be affiliated to the Islamic State (IS), President Mnangagwa has said.
Speaking after returning from Mozambique for the Double Troika Summit yesterday, the President said it was now the responsibility of defence and security chiefs to implement the resolution.
“First, we had the Troika itself, which sat and adopted the recommendations of the Ministers of Defence and Security which, in the main, included the need to have SADC take responsibility in dealing with the threat in Cabo Delgado, in the sense that SADC, through its Force Intervention Brigade our SADC force should be resuscitated and capacitated immediately so that it can intervene,” he s
President leaves for Mozambique
Darlington Musarurwa
President Mnangagwa takes part in an urgent regional meeting in Maputo today to “deliberate on measures to address terrorism” in Mozambique.
The SADC Extraordinary “Double Troika” Summit was called for by Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, who is chair of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation.
The other two members of the Troika are Zimbabwe, which was the previous chair of the organ and South Africa, which is the next chair.
Another group of three countries are participating.
Mozambique, the host country and current chair of SADC, Malawi which will be the next SADC chair, and Tanzania, which was the last SADC chair. While the three countries are a troika of chairs of SADC, they are also the host and affected countries plus two of its neighbours. The security troika includes another two neighbours.