Nyusi wants vigilance to “prevent foreigners from coming to Mozambique” and creating destabilisation – O País

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Nyusi wants vigilance to “prevent foreigners from coming to Mozambique” and creating destabilisation – O País

3:18 CAT | 18 Jan 2021

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“We must act forcefully in order to prevent and discourage foreigners from coming to Mozambique to destabilise us, using our brothers and children against their own people,” Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Defence of Mozambique Filipe Nyusi said on Friday.

Speaking at the end of the fifth anti-terrorism training course, the president stressed that “we are facing clear acts of terrorism in Cabo Delgado, a war without parallel”.

“It is a war without borders, because it does not respect sovereignty or territorial integrity. It is a lawless war, with no respect for human life, and it uses every means to terrorise men and women, to kill and maim in a most hideous way,” he continued.

These practices, according to Filipe Nyusi, are linked to “drug trafficking and the plundering of wealth”.

“Terrorism exploits the vulnerability of populations” whose “satisfaction in their lives, even if that life is under construction,” most states are never “in a position to guarantee”.

For Nyusi, if terrorism is not combated in a united way in Mozambique, in Africa and in the world, “no one will be saved from it, no matter how strong they think they are”. In Mozambique, the soldier on the front line is the Mozambican himself.

Regarding the self-proclaimed Renamo Military Junta, Nyusi called for them to lay down their weapons and join the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) process, with their leader, Mariano Nhongo, among them. “And he can do so through contacts already at his disposal,” President Nyusi remarked.

By Emildo Sambo

Source: O País