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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The United States has agreed to supply non-lethal military equipment to Mozambique, the head of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Michael Langley, announced on Wednesday, \u201cimpressed\u201d by the results of the fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m here on a learning mission, because Mozambique and its partners throughout SADC, and also with some of the other African partners, have been very successful, especially in Cabo Delgado. And we\u2019re learning from that, with very effective means, and we\u2019re very impressed. And that\u2019s what the discussions with the president were about,\u201d explained the US general, after meeting with the head of state in Maputo.<\/p>\n

According to the AFRICOM commander, the meeting with the President, Filipe Nyusi, served to discuss US support for the creation of \u201coperational capacity\u201d in Mozambique in the fight against terrorism, \u201cmainly\u201d through the training component, but also in the supply of equipment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to go into detail about what the president has asked for, but I know that, firstly, it will probably be in terms of uniforms. So non-lethal aid at the moment,\u201d explained Michael Langley, after the meeting with the Mozambican head of state.<\/p>\n

The general added that the supply of equipment to Mozambique\u2019s security and defence forces (FDS) will depend on the negotiations that will take place immediately after the \u201cformal request\u201d that the government will have to submit.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, there is no programme for this supply at the moment,\u201d he recognised.<\/p>\n

He insisted that the US government is prioritising a plan to \u201cincrease the partnership\u201d with Mozambique and to \u201cincrease local capacity\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt starts with training, but progresses to what is possible. What we can do is help equip,\u201d he said, recalling that in recent years Africom has already developed programmes to support the Mozambican armed forces, which will continue.<\/p>\n

The province of Cabo Delgado has been facing armed insurgency for almost six years, with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.<\/p>\n

The insurgency has led to a military response since July 2021, with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts near gas projects, but new attacks have emerged in the south of the region and in neighbouring Nampula province.<\/p>\n

The conflict in northern Mozambique has already displaced one million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and caused around 4,000 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.<\/p>\n

Last week, the extremist group Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on the Kathupa base, in the interior of the Macomia district, in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, saying that 10 soldiers from Mozambique\u2019s FDS were killed.<\/p>\n

The attack, on 8 August, was claimed in a statement released by the fundamentalist group\u2019s Amaq agency, which said that seven other FDS soldiers were injured, and which included a photograph of victims and seized material, the authenticity of which could not be verified.<\/p>\n

The Mozambican authorities have so far not confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n

It was apparently an attempt to recover the base, which had been captured from terrorists by the FDS since last year.<\/p>\n

The president of Mozambique said on 10 August that the FDS had expelled the terrorists from all the districts they occupied in Cabo Delgado province, in the north of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur defence and security forces, also assisted by the local force, continue to relentlessly pursue the terrorists, having evicted them from all the districts they occupied until 2021,\u201d said Filipe Nyusi, in Maputo, at a reception for his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, on a state visit to the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cEfforts are continuing to fight the terrorists who are attacking some districts of Cabo Delgado province, combining multilateral and bilateral cooperation, from SADC, through SAMIM [Southern African Military Mission], and Rwanda, respectively,\u201d said the Mozambican president.<\/p>\n

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