Africa-Press – Mozambique. Southern African Development Community troops helping to fight an Islamic State-linked insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province will remain in the country until the situation on the ground is under control, the regional bloc said.
SADC also plans to add more ground forces to hold onto areas retaken from the insurgents, Mpho Molomo, special representative of the chair of the bloc’s organ on politics, defence and security cooperation, told reporters Thursday in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. Fighters are fleeing to Mozambican provinces of Niassa and Nampula, as well as islands off Cabo Delgado coastline and to neighbouring Tanzania, he said.
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Borges Nhamirre
