Mozambique attacks: Maputo and Dodoma will “coordinate efforts” to stop border incursions – Lusa

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Mozambique attacks: Maputo and Dodoma will “coordinate efforts” to stop border incursions – Lusa

4:43 CAT | 13 Aug 2020

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Mozambique and Tanzania will “coordinate efforts” to stop armed incursions on the border between the two states, the Mozambican Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation announced yesterday.

“The idea is to ascertain how to coordinate efforts to ensure that that problem ends,” Verónica Macamo said, after the handing over of credentials by the new Tanzanian High Commissioner in Mozambique, Phaustine Martin Kasike, at the Presidency in Maputo.

Cabo Delgado, one of the two Mozambican provinces bordering Tanzania, has been under attack since October 2017 by insurgents, classified since the beginning of the year by Mozambican and international authorities as a terrorist threat.

“It is an area that must be effectively defended and the two countries are facing the same phenomenon,” said Verónica Macamo.

In almost three years of conflict in Cabo Delgado, where Africa’s largest private investment for the exploration of natural gas is advancing, it is estimated that at least 1,059 people have already died. Some of the incursions have been claimed by the ‘jihadist’ Islamic State group.

According to the United Nations, armed violence in Cabo Delgado has forced 250,000 people to flee from districts affected by insecurity in the north of the province.

Hon. Verónica Dlhovo, Minister of Foreign Affairs & Cooperation of #Mozambique today took over as #SADC Chair of Council of Ministers & called for a coordinated & collective action to ensure sustained peace & security for sustainable development of the region @clubOmozambique pic.twitter.com/sHwLOqFron

— SADC Secretariat (@SADC_News) August 13, 2020