Mozambique: SADC extraordinary summit postponed without date due to Covid-19 – Lusa

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Mozambique: SADC extraordinary summit postponed without date due to Covid-19 – Lusa

3:59 CAT | 13 Jan 2021

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An extraordinary summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), called for the 17th of this month (Sunday) to discuss armed violence in Cabo Delgado, has been postponed ‘without date’, an official source told Lusa on today (Wednesday).

The postponement is blamed on the increasing number of Covid-19 infections in the country.

The decision to hold an extraordinary summit was taken on December 14 after a high-level SADC consultations in Maputo attended by, in addition to the Mozambican head of state, presidents Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana, and Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, as well as Vice-President of Tanzania, Samia Sulihu.

Armed violence in Cabo Delgado, where Africa’s largest private multinational investment (in natural gas extraction) is ongoing, started three years ago and is causing a humanitarian crisis, with more than 2,000 deaths and 560,000 internally displaced, without adequate housing or food, principally to the provincial capital, Pemba.

Some of the raids have, since 2019, been claimed by the jihadist ‘Islamic State’ group.

Source: Lusa