Police logistics to be reinforced in Macomia, Mocímboa and Palma | Mozambique

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Police logistics to be reinforced in Macomia, Mocímboa and Palma | Mozambique

8:53 CAT | 15 May 2023

Photo: Ministério do Interior - MINT

At the end of a visit to Cabo Delgado province, Mozambican Interior Minister Arsénia Massingue said on Friday (12-05) that she would reinforce the logistical capacity of the police in Macomia, Mocimboa da Praia and Palma.

“I am talking about means of transport, so that we can reinforce the ability of our colleagues to move around these points, and also increase fuel, because the work is very hard and requires a lot,” Minister Massingue said.

Minister Massingue was speaking in the provincial capital, Pemba, after a week-long visit to districts affected by the armed insurgency in the region.

In particular, she expressed satisfaction with the rehabilitation of the Mocimboa da Praia district police command and the commissioning of the Palma police command.

“In Mocimboa da Praia, work has already started, with the support of UNOPS [United Nations Office for Project Services] and, if all goes well, the command will be rebuilt by July,” she said.

“Colleagues will have minimum conditions to work,” Minister Massingue told members of the police force.

In Palma, “a little rehabilitation has been carried out, and it is possible to work”.

“It is still not the facility that we would like to have as a district command, but it is an acceptable minimum,” she said, referring “construction from scratch” to “future occasions, when the logistical conditions allow it”.

Both in Macomia and in Mocimboa da Praia and Palma, districts formerly occupied by terrorists, security is being re-established and many displaced people are returning to their areas of origin.

For five years, the province has faced an armed insurgency with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.

The insurgency has led to a military response since July 2021 with the support of Rwanda and the Community for the Development of Southern Africa (SADC), liberating districts next to the gas projects, but new waves of attacks have appeared in the south of the region and in the neighbouring province of Nampula.

The conflict has already displaced one million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and cost around 4,000 deaths, according to the conflict recording project, ACLED.

Source: Lusa