Mozambique is still resisting southern Africa’s help in fighting terrorism.
Masisi and Ramaphosa, together with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, were expected to attend Thursday’s virtual meeting following the conclusion of a technical assessment report by the double troika plus Angola on the security situation in Cabo Delgado. Nyusi prefers bilateral support instead of a multilateral approach due to complexities around the geopolitics of this conflictThis meeting, according to sources, was attended by leaders from former Portuguese colonies such as Angola, Cape Verde and Equatorial Guinea. Sources said this signalled Maputo’s willingness to treat the conflict as an internal matter with limited support from the region and other bilateral partners.
“As we deliberate on the report and course of action, we should also take into consideration that our way forward, as the region, should be guided by the SADC Mutual Defence Pact. As we are aware, the pact provides for collective self-defence and collective action.
“So if there is an announcement today to say we are going to deploy as the SADC Standby Force to contain this insurgency in Cabo Delgado, that will take a long time – a couple months. It would need coordination between the two contributing countries. It would need financing because none of our countries can actually afford such a military operation. It is extremely expensive so we have to get the African Union, the UN and others to foot the bill.
“President Nyusi has been reluctant to have the SADC and that has been frustrating not only for the people of the region. We would have wanted to see the SADC moving robustly in terms of solidarity, but that depends on the extent to which Maputo is willing to invite the SADC,” Nuvunga said.
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