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Mozambique: Ramalho Eanes criticises ‘PALOP’s worrying immobility’
2:18 CAT | 26 Nov 2020
Photo: Lusa
Portugal’s former president Ramalho Eanes on Thursday criticised the worrying immobility of the Portuguese-language African countries (PALOP) regarding Europe’s possible response in aid to armed attacks in northern Mozambique.
“There is a worrying immobility of the PALOPs, who should have already mobilised their external action to try to get Europe to help fight the radical Islamism that is attacking northern Mozambique,” Ramalho Eanes said during a virtual conference this morning organised by SAP consultancy under the slogan ‘Sustaining Economic Growth in the Next Normal’.
“There was an easy response as long as there was strength and initiative and mobilisation from Europe and the United Nations, and it is very easy, with specialised forces and drones, to resolve the situation,” Eanes said.
The armed violence in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, is causing a humanitarian crisis with around 2,000 deaths and 500,000 displaced people, without housing or food, mainly concentrated in the provincial capital, Pemba.
The province where the largest private investment in Africa is being made for the exploitation of natural gas has been under attack by insurgents for three years and some of the incursions have been claimed by the jihadist Islamic State group since 2019.
Source: Lusa
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