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Botswana’s vice president on Monday assured that he will get “first-hand” information on reports that the barracks of his country’s military fighting armed groups in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province was “invaded by prostitutes”.
“We are going there [to Cabo Delgado] to get first-hand information, we are looking for information, because I have not yet seen the reports on the matter,” said Slumber Tsogwane, speaking at the end of a meeting in Maputo with Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi.
He said he would also provide moral support to Botswanan soldiers fighting insurgents in the province of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique.
“We are going to see the conditions in which our soldiers operate and provide them with moral support,” said the Botswana vice president.
The military contingent from that country is in Cabo Delgado as part of the Southern African Development Community Military Mission (SAMIM) that has been fighting the armed groups terrorising some districts of the province since October 2017.
In April, a Botswana media outlet wrote in a headline that “prostitutes invade BDF” (Botswana Defence Forces) in Cabo Delgado.
Cabo Delgado province is rich in natural gas but has been terrorised since 2017 by armed rebels, with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.
There are 784,000 internally displaced people due to the conflict, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and around 4,000 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.
Since July 2021, an offensive by government troops, with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has allowed areas where there was a rebel presence to recover.
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