Mozambique: Sergeants must know how to confront new challenges

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Mozambique: Sergeants must know how to confront new challenges

7:35 CAT | 15 Nov 2020

Photo: Domingo

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Friday declared that sergeants in the Mozambican armed forces (FADM) must be able to face the new challenges imposed by an ever more globalised world, and should be trained according to a curriculum in line with new methods and techniques of combat.

Nyusi was speaking at a ceremony closing a training course for sergeants in Boane district, 30 kilometres west of Maputo.

The President stressed that sergeants have the duty to confront the modus operandi of any enemy, particularly the terrorists who are murdering and looting in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

He said that during training “You bury your fears, and values are inculcated such as courage, loyalty and obedience to the regulations”.

He knew that the sergeants had already seen action on the Cabo Delgado front, “so you have already faced real gunfire, and I believe that you have indeed buried your fears”.

Nyusi urged the FADM to improve its combat readiness and its capacity to face the terrorist raids in Cabo Delgado, as well as the attacks in the central provinces of Manica and Sofala carried out by the self-styled “Renamo Military Junta”.

“We have said that these attacks are a clear affront to our national independence, to our territorial integrity and to the peace won by the Mozambican people with so much sacrifice”, he said. “Today we feel we must renew this appeal to the armed forces because the prevailing scenario in these regions remains one of aggression against the Mozambican state”.

Nyusi said that sergeants are the backbone of the armed forces, establishing connections between the various levels of the FADM. The Boane training centre for sergeants, he added, has been growing year after year and is proving itself as a laboratory for military skills, and a space for research in military science.

“This is a privileged centre of knowledge which is feeding the FADM with sergeants with sophisticated military knowledge, imbued with the patriotic spirit”, he declared.

Source: AIM