{"id":33229,"date":"2023-01-31T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/eu-pledges-more-help-against-rebels-cooperation-with-south-africa"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:14:39","slug":"eu-pledges-more-help-against-rebels-cooperation-with-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/eu-pledges-more-help-against-rebels-cooperation-with-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"EU pledges more help against rebels, cooperation with South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The European Union is to step up its support for Mozambique and cooperation with South Africa to address what it described as a \u201cterrorist threat\u201d in Cabo Delgado province, in the north of Mozambique, the European Commission announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa is an indispensable actor in a region that is facing a variety of political and security challenges, so we will expand our cooperation on peace and security, especially through EU support for the Southern African Development Community [SADC] and the military mission in Cabo Delgado,\u201d said a commission spokeswoman, Nabila Massrali, at a news conference in Brussels.<\/p>\n

The decision, she explained, followed a bilateral meeting that the EU\u2019s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, had with South Africa\u2019s government last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe terrorist threat in northern Mozambique has not been totally eliminated and continues to worry us,\u201d Massrali said, stressing that this is why the EU will step up support to Maputo in coordination with Pretoria, particularly through military training missions.<\/p>\n

In September last year, she noted, Brussels had increased its support to the Cabo Delgado region with a \u20ac15-million package to buy \u201cnon-military equipment\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the government in Pretoria announced a SADC meeting, to be held on Tuesday, to discuss the situation in the kingdoms of Swaziland and Lesotho, as well as the conflict in Cabo Delgado.<\/p>\n

The province has been plagued by conflict since 2017 that has spread terror among local residents. Armed rebel groups have been looting and massacring in villages and towns across the province, with responsibility for some of these attacks claimed by the local arm of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in the region.<\/p>\n

The conflict has already caused more than 4,000 deaths, according to data from The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, and displaced at least 1 million people, according to Mozambique\u2019s own authorities.<\/p>\n

Since July 2022, a military offensive by Maputo, with support from Rwanda and later the SADC, appeared to calm the security situation in the region, following years of turmoil, with the government regaining control of localities that had been held by the rebels, such as the town of Moci\u0301mboa da Praia, which had been occupied since 2020.<\/p>\n

The EU does not ask to choose sides. We just ask all countries to stand on the side of the UN Charter and international law.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mozambique<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. 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