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The European Union must move with urgency to step up its support for Mozambique as it battles against a wave of attacks by Islamic insurgent by sending a military training mission to work with local soldiers, the bloc’s foreign affairs chief said on Thursday (6 May). EPA-EFE/ARIS OIKONOMOU / POOL
And you see why it’s so unique to be
Among the lovely people living free
Upon the beach of sunny Mozambique Bob Dylan,
Risk/reward
The elderly man slumps with exhaustion. An unseen assailant jams a pistol into his cheek, while someone else keeps a semi-automatic at his throat. Stripped to his underwear, his eyes puffy from weeping, something about the man’s bearing suggests that, not so long ago, he was powerful and in full control of his destiny. He does not appear accustomed to begging.
“I can’t take this torture anymore,” he says. He is slapped once, twice, a third time. “This will be the last time you see me. Beg, borrow and steal. Give them the money.”
Southern African ministers have agreed to deploy a regional force in Mozambique to help that country defeat an Islamic State-linked insurgency.
The ministers, representing the troika of the security organ of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), appear to have accepted a plan proposed by their military officials to send in a 2,916-strong rapid response force.
The ministers agreed to present the plan to a summit of the heads of state organ of the security organ troika in Maputo on Thursday.
But then SADC announced that the summit had been postponed indefinitely because neither President Cyril Ramaphosa nor Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi were able to attend. Ramaphosa is to appear before the Zondo Commission on Thursday, and Masisi is in quarantine because of Covid-19 .
President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives in Maputo. (Photo: @PresidencyZA/Twitter)
President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Maputo for a SADC meeting on the attack by insurgents in Mozambique s northern Cabo Delgado province.
The extraordinary double troika summit was convened by Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi as chair of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation.
The discussions would be about possible interventions by the region but the Mozambican government has been slow to accept outside help thus far.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Maputo ahead of a regional meeting on the attack by insurgents in Mozambique s northern Cabo Delgado province.