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Mozambique: Talks with Tanzania about cooperation in fighting terrorism
2:52 CAT | 06 Nov 2020
File photo: Lusa
The re-elected president of Tanzania, John Magufuli, and Mozambique’s prime minister, Carlos Agostinho do Rosario, on Thursday defended the importance of bilateral and regional cooperation in the fight against “terrorism”, said the Mozambican leader, quoted today by the press.
John Magufuli and Carlos Agostinho do Rosario held a meeting on Thursday in the Tanzanian city of Dodoma, after the re-election of Magufuli.
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“Peace and stability are crucial for development in both countries and the whole region. So it was a good meeting, we think we will continue working”, said Rosario, speaking to Mozambican journalists at the ceremony.
The prime minister said that the two countries are aware that they must work together in the fight for stability, peace and progress, just as they were in the fight against Portuguese colonialism.
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário said that his presence at the inauguration ceremony was a moment to convey the fraternity, friendship and greetings of the Mozambican people to the Tanzanian people.
“It was an occasion for us to strengthen the relations of brotherhood and the relations of cooperation and neighbourhood”, he said.
Mozambique and Tanzania, he continued, have “brotherhood” relations built at the beginning and during the armed struggle against Portuguese colonialism on Mozambican territory, besides being partners in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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On Thursday and Saturday of last week, a series of rockets launched over the Rovuma River from the Tanzanian side to Mozambique seriously injured 12 civilians in a village in Cabo Delgado province, several residents of the border region told Lusa.
The missiles were supposedly targeting terrorist group camps entrenched in woodlands on the banks of the Rovuma River.
The heavy weapons fire assigned to the Tanzanian army hit the village of Mandimba, eight kilometres from Nangade district headquarters in the north of Cabo Delgado, an area that is home to thousands of displaced people from terrorist attacks, one resident told Lusa.
“The rockets began to be launched by Tanzanian troops after the attack by ‘al-Shebab’ [the name given to the rebels] on Kitaya,” a village in Tanzania.
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The province of Cabo Delgado, in the north of Mozambique, has been the scene of armed attacks by forces classified as terrorists for three years.
There are different estimates for the number of deaths, ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 victims.
The Mozambican prime minister said on Wednesday last week in parliament that “terrorist actions are creating hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people, whose number currently stands at over 435,000.
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Carlos Agostinho do Rosario said that more than 10,000 people who fled the armed conflict in Cabo Delgado had arrived in the provincial capital, Pemba, in recent days.
COMMANDOS march in front of newly sworn-in President and Chief of the Armed Forces, Dr John Magufuli.(Photos by State House & Iddy Mwema) pic.twitter.com/l0zxSqcTpE
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Source: Lusa
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