{"id":3936,"date":"2021-08-06T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2021-08-06T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:09:24","slug":"mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique\/Rwanda joint force prepares offensive on Mocimboa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Joint Mozambican and Rwandan forces already control some parts of the district of Mocimboa da Praia previously by insurgents, and their objective is now to recover the main town, according to official sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mozambican force, with its Rwandan sister, is fighting terrorism and we are going forward,\u201d Aiuba Amide, a commander in the police Rapid Intervention Unit now in Awassi told the media. Awassi is one of rebel strongholds recently recovered by the joint force.<\/p>\n

In addition to Awassi, which is about 50 kilometres from Mocimboa town, the joint force has also reoccupied insurgent positions in Diaca, seizing war material and shooting several members of the group, according to a source linked to the Ministry of Defence and cited by Lusa news agency.<\/p>\n

The coastal village of Mocimboa da Praia, considered by many the insurgents\u2019 \u2018base\u2019, was invaded and occupied for a day by rebels on March 23 last year in an action claimed by the \u2018Islamic State\u2019 group. At the end of June 2020, the village was the scene of long clashes, which led to the flight of a considerable part of the population.<\/p>\n

The Mozambican military counts on the support of Rwandans for the offensive against Moc\u00edmboa da Praia<\/p>\n

In Maputo, President Filipe Nyusi held talks with President of the Union of the Comoros, Azali Assoumani. The two leaders addressed the security crisis in Cabo Delgado.<\/p>\n

As Christian Jokinen, an expert on political violence and terrorism, wrote in an article published by The Jamestown Foundation\u2019s Terrorism Monitor in December: \u201cIn the past, the Comoros archipelago, though predominantly Muslim, has been considered an unlikely breeding ground for jihadism because Comoran Islam is generally tolerant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, several known jihadists are known to have emerged from Comoros. One of them was late al-Qaeda commander in East Africa and Osama bin Laden\u2019s \u2018confidential secretary,\u2019 Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who was killed in Somalia in 2006,\u201d writes Jokine, adding that \u201cindividual counter-terrorism investigations have taken place involving Comoran nationals in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda between 2014 and 2017, which points to Comorans\u2019 links to East African jihadist networks.<\/p>\n

France is also seeing the infiltration of the \u2018Islamic State\u2019 in Mayotte, a French \u2018department\u2019 located between Mozambique and Madagascar, with a deep cultural identity with the Comoros, according to the expert.<\/p>\n

For the president of the Comoros, proximity makes cooperation between the two countries important. \u201cWe have cooperation at the level of African institutions, such as the African Union and the Southern African Development Community, but it is at the bilateral level that the two countries can solve their problems, because the problems of one are the problems of the other,\u201d President Assoumani stressed.<\/p>\n

Situated in the Indian Ocean at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, the Comoros archipelago is made up of four islands: Grande-Comore, Anjouan, Moheli and Mayotte. The independence of the Union of the Comoros was decreed in 1975, with the island of Mayotte remaining under French administration.<\/p>\n

Mozambique shares the Indian Ocean with the Comoros Islands, and the relationship between the two states has been identified by specialists and scholars as important for the protection of the Mozambique Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. Joint Mozambican and Rwandan forces already control some parts of the district of Mocimboa da Praia previously by insurgents, and their objective is now to recover the main town, according to official sources. \u201cThe Mozambican force, with its Rwandan sister, is fighting terrorism and we are going forward,\u201d Aiuba Amide, a commander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nMozambique\/Rwanda joint force prepares offensive on Mocimboa - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joint Mozambican and Rwandan forces already control some parts of the district of Mocimboa da Praia previously by insurg ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mozambique\/Rwanda joint force prepares offensive on Mocimboa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joint Mozambican and Rwandan forces already control some parts of the district of Mocimboa da Praia previously by insurg ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-06T15:00:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/08\/img-610d424be754e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mozambique\/Rwanda joint force prepares offensive on Mocimboa\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-06T15:00:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw\"},\"wordCount\":527,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/08\/img-610d424be754e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-rwanda-joint-force-prepares-offensive-on-mocimboa-dw\",\"name\":\"Mozambique\/Rwanda joint force prepares offensive on Mocimboa - 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