{"id":122695,"date":"2026-05-20T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/mozambique-secures-funding-for-rwandan-troops"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:39:54","slug":"mozambique-secures-funding-for-rwandan-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mozambique-secures-funding-for-rwandan-troops","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Secures Funding for Rwandan Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong> <\/span>The Foreign Minister of Rwanda stated that Mozambique has secured the necessary funding for the Rwandan army to continue its deployment in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, which is suffering from insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda sent troops to northern Mozambique in 2021 at the request of Mozambique to help stabilize areas previously controlled by an insurgent group linked to a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>This mission was partially funded by a regional organization, which Rwanda\u2019s Foreign Minister, Olivier Nduhungirehe, mentioned has become hesitant to provide further funding.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote on social media: \u201cThis year, Rwanda decided&#8230; to deal exclusively with the Government of Mozambique, which has secured and will continue to secure the necessary funding for Rwandan security forces in Cabo Delgado.\u201d The amount of funding secured and its duration were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Rwanda warned that it might withdraw its troops if it could not secure adequate funding, following reports that the regional organization did not intend to renew its support. The terms of the agreement between Mozambique and Rwanda have not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of Rwandan troops has weakened the insurgency enough for a major energy company to restart its $20 billion liquefied natural gas project in northern Mozambique earlier this year, although analysts monitoring the insurgency say that attacks are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Rwanda<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. The Foreign Minister of Rwanda stated that Mozambique has secured the necessary funding for the Rwandan army to continue its deployment in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, which is suffering from insurgency. Rwanda sent troops to northern Mozambique in 2021 at the request of Mozambique to help stabilize areas previously controlled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":122694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[758],"class_list":["post-122695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mozambique Secures Funding for Rwandan Troops - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Rwanda. 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