Saudi Arabia has announced its support in combating the armed attacks in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, which have killed more than 2,500 people since 2017. “We are working with our partners in the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), especially South Africa, to support the Defense and Security Forces of Mozambique to combat extremist groups “, said Mohamed Bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, quoted Wednesday by the private channel STV. The prince was speaking on Wednesday during the closing of the Summit on Financing African Economies, held in Paris, the French capital. According to Mohammed, the support, which is part of the SADC initiatives, consists of training the Mozambican Defense and Security Forces, with the aim of “maintaining security, stability and economic development in the country”. Armed groups have terrorized Cabo Delgado since 2017, with some attacks claimed by the Islamic State group ‘jihadist’, in a wave of violence that has already caused more than 2,500 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project, and 714,000 displaced people, according to the Mozambican government. The most recent incursion by these groups took place on March 24 in Palma, almost six kilometers from the gas project under construction, causing dozens of deaths and injuries, with no official balance sheet announced. Mozambican authorities have announced that they will control the village, but the attack has prompted oil company Total to leave the site of the project that was due to start production in 2024 and in which many of Mozambique’s economic growth expectations in the next decade are anchored. (Lusa) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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