The summit, which was held in Maputo, Mozambique on Thursday, received a report from the Chairperson of the Organ on the security situation in the Cabo Delgado Province, in the northern part of Mozambique.
S/Africa’s Ramaphosa attends SADC Troika Summit on Mozambique South Africa-SADC-Troika May 27, 2021 to 13:17 146 APA-Pretoria (South Africa) South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is attending an Extraordinary Double Troika Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the Mozambican capital Maputo where regional security will be high on the agenda, his office said on Thursday.
He was accompanied by International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo for the second meeting of the troika in as many months.
Mozambique is the current chair of the SADC, with Malawi as its incoming chair and Tanzania as the outgoing head of the 16-member regional grouping.
Regional talks end with no solid plan to quell jihadist violence in Mozambique The talks had been widely expected to decide on a reported proposal to deploy some 3,000 soldiers to Cabo Delgado, where insurgents have seized control of towns and villages, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. The presidents of Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Botswana attend the SADC Extraordinary Double Troika to discuss insecurity in the region on 27 May 2021. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter
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MAPUTO - A southern African regional summit ended Thursday with no announcement of a concrete plan to tackle the Islamist insurgency ravaging northern Mozambique, according to a closing summit statement.
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