Africa-Press – Mozambique. The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for diplomacy recognised that the worsening conflict in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, “creates migratory pressure” in the countries of the EU bloc, insisting that support must be strengthened.
“The security situation creates migratory pressure and this migratory pressure comes to Europe,” said Kaja Kallas, in an interview with the Lusa news agency.
The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said that the situation in Mozambique is serious and “is not improving”.
“People don’t want to leave their homes, but eventually they have to,” recognised Kallas, a former Prime Minister of Estonia.
Kaja Kallas considered that other answers needed to be found, without materialising, even though Mozambique “has received a lot of support from the European Union to help the police and the armed forces to control” the conflict that broke out almost eight years ago.
The High Representative of the European political-economic bloc’s diplomacy said she feared that the influence of the insurgents and the conflicts would spread: “We should look at what more we can do in this regard, because if we look at other regions in Africa, we don’t want the same developments to happen.”
Cabo Delgado province, which is rich in gas and has suffered attacks since 2017, has seen an upsurge in attacks by rebel groups since July, with the districts of Chiúre, Muidumbe, Quissanga, Ancuabe, Meluco and most recently Mocímboa da Praia being targeted, causing tens of thousands of displaced people since then.
On Tuesday last week, Mozambique’s government deplored the terrorist attacks that have taken place in recent days in Cabo Delgado, saying that it is the role of the state to pursue, slow down and stop the attacks so that the population has “as little suffering as possible”.
In 2024 alone, at least 349 people died in attacks in northern Mozambique, most of them claimed by the extremist group Islamic State, an increase of 36% on the previous year, according to a study released by the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies (ACSS), an academic institution of the US government’s Department of Defence.
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