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Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The commander of the Mozambican army has said that at least 33 bodies of terrorists had been counted as a result of clashes to recapture the town of Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, in northern Mozambique.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the enemy side there were casualties and of those that have been counted so far, there are about 33 identified bodies of the enemy,\u201d Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o Chume told Mozambican television station Televis\u00e3o de Mo\u00e7ambique in said in Moc\u00edmboa da Praia,, noting that the number of insurgents killed could be higher.<\/p>\n

According to Maj-Gen Cristov\u00e3o Chume, there were no casualties in the joint Mozambican and Rwandan troops,<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Defence announced on Sunday the recapture of the main town of Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, considered by many to be the \u201cbase\u201d of the insurgent groups that have carried out armed attacks in Cabo Delgado since 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were taking these positions that served as \u2018buffer zones\u2019 to reach Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, the enemy realised that they had no alternative but to leave. They offered little resistance because if they wanted to continue fighting there would have been a total elimination,\u201d Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o Chume stressed.<\/p>\n

The operation was conducted by a joint force comprising troops from Mozambique and Rwanda, which since the beginning of July has had about 1,000 troops and police in Cabo Delgado to support Mozambique in the fight.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, from Kigali, the spokesman for the Rwandan army, Ronald Rwivanga, made a positive assessment of the presence of Rwandan troops in Cabo Delgado, estimating that they have caused at least 70 casualties among the insurgents.<\/p>\n

Moc\u00edmboa da Praia is located 70 kilometres south of the construction area of the natural gas exploration project led by Total.<\/p>\n

The town had been invaded and occupied by rebels on 23 March last year, in an action later claimed by the \u2018jihadist\u2019 group Islamic State, and was, on 27 and 28 June of that year, the scene of clashes between government forces and insurgent groups, which led to the flight of a considerable part of the population.<\/p>\n

As well as Rwanda, Mozambique now has support from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in a mandate for a \u201cjoint force on standby\u201d approved on 23 June at an extraordinary summit of the organisation in Maputo.<\/p>\n

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

Following the attacks, 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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