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Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) of Mozambique on Thursday called for the creation of a code of conduct for the respect of human rights in the north of the country because of the arrival of foreign troops to fight armed groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think it is important that a code of conduct is drawn up for these [foreign] forces concerning women and girls from the communities where they will be\u201d, said Lu\u00eds Bitone, president of the CNDH.<\/p>\n

He was speaking during a round-table, organised jointly with the Institute for Multi-Party Democracy (IMD), on \u201cThe foreign military presence: Risks and Challenges in Protecting Human Rights and the Democratic Space in Cabo Delgado\u201d.<\/p>\n

The CNDH also defended a \u201csevere accountability\u201d in cases of \u201cinappropriate relationship\u201d between foreign soldiers and women or girls from the communities of that province in Northern Mozambique.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are talking about a force that is mostly made up of men and that in the communities can cause problems of harassment and sexual violations if there is no vigilance,\u201d said the president of the CNDH.<\/p>\n

The commission said the poor command of the \u201cdemographic and physical geography\u201d would be a challenge for foreign soldiers, considering the presence of Mozambican forces as fundamental in the operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is no special attention on this, there will be problems of confusing the enemy\u2019s military bases with population clusters,\u201d Bitone warned.<\/p>\n

The mandate for a \u201cjoint force on standby\u201d from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to support Mozambique in the fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado was approved on 23 June at an extraordinary summit of the organisation in Maputo that discussed armed violence in that province, with military personnel from some member countries already on the ground.<\/p>\n

The number of troops that the organisation will send to Mozambique is not publicly known, but SADC experts who were in Cabo Delgado had said in April that the mission would be made up of around 3,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n

In Cabo Delgado, a province near the border with Tanzania, there is already a contingent of 1,000 soldiers and police from Rwanda (which is not part of SADC) to fight against armed groups as part of a bilateral agreement between the Mozambican government and the Kigali authorities.<\/p>\n

Armed groups have terrorised Cabo Delgado province since 2017, with some attacks being claimed by the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n

There are more than 3,100 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project, and more than 817,000 displaced people, according to Mozambican authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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