President Cyril Ramaphosa and his regional counterparts at the extraordinary summit of the heads of state and government of Sadc in Malawi.Southern African Development Community leaders have agreed to extend the deployment of troops in terrorist-ravaged Mozambique in an effort to bring about stability in the province of Cabo Delgado.
When the regional leaders met in October last year they agreed to extend the Sadc mission in Mozambique deployment until January 15 at a cost of almost R1bn to the SA taxpayer. TimesLIVE reported in December that a South African soldier, deployed in Operation Vikela, was killed when forces came under attack from insurgents in an ambush in the area east of Chai village.
“Summit commended acts of solidarity exhibited in the form of food pledges made by Malawi, SA and Zimbabwe to alleviate the suffering faced by the internally displaced people in the Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique.”
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