Sadc team to assess IS threat in Mozambique, but no definitive response yet
The organisation has already held a series of meetings on the conflict and has just condemned the violence thus far
12 April 2021 - 17:35
A Southern African Development Community (Sadc) technical team will assess the threat that Islamist militants pose to Mozambique to determine how to respond to the insurgency, the nation’s foreign minister said.
The bloc agreed to deploy the team after regional leaders met last week to discuss the escalating violence in the northeast of the country. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the meeting also agreed to revive a so-called Sadc brigade to intervene in the conflict...
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