President Nyusi expected in Zimbabwe to attend extra-ordinary SADC Troika on Mozambique tomorrow

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President Nyusi expected in Zimbabwe to attend extra-ordinary SADC Troika on Mozambique tomorrow

7:43 CAT | 18 May 2020

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Other heads of State expected to attend the troika summit are Zambian President, Edgar Chagwa Lungu, Botswana President, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi

Zimbabwe President, Emmerson Mnangagw,a is set to host a one day Extra-Ordinary Organ Troika Summit of heads of state and government tomorrow in Harare. Mnangagwa is hosting the extra ordinary summit in his capacity as the chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security.

In a statement this evening, the Zimbabwean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade noted that the main purpose of the extraordinary summit is to consider the urgent security situation in Mozambique following that country’s formal request to the regional body.

Heads of State expected to attend the troika summit are Zambian President, Edgar Chagwa Lungu, Botswana President, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi as well as Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi.

There have been disturbances in some parts of Mozambique where gruesome acts have been committed by Islamist terrorists.

Recently, President Mnangagwa held a one-day working meeting with Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi in Chimoio, where they discussed the security situation in Cabo Delgado and parts of Mozambique’s Manica and Sofala provinces.

The two leaders shared information and exchanged views on the political and economic situation in their two countries, Sadc, Africa and the world at large. President Mnangagwa chairs the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security while President Nyusi deputises him.

Source: ZBC