Mozambique formally seeks help from neighbours to stem insurgency
Mozambique has lodged an official request for military intervention from neighbouring countries to help quell a jihadist insurgency in the gas-rich north, the defence minister said Thursday.
Southern African countries agreed late last month to deploy forces to Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, where insurgents have been wreaking havoc since 2017.
The “request for the intervention of SADC in Cabo Delgado has been formally finalised,” Mozambique’s Defence Minister Jaime Neto told AFP via telephone.
The government had sent a signed “status of forces” agreement to the 16-state Southern African Development Community (SADC)’s secretariat in Botswana’s capital on Wednesday.
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