By James Gwati-SADC has directed “an immediate technical deployment” to Mozambique as it seeks a “proportionate regional response” to insurgent attacks in northern Mozambique.

This means Zimbabwe as part of the regional bloc will also be sending its troops to assist neighbouring Mozambique.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday attended an SADC Extraordinary Double Troika Summit on the security situation in northern Mozambique. The meeting was held in Maputo

There have been heightened concerns over growing terrorist activities in Mozambique especially after the insurgent attacks on Palma – a coastal town in Cabo Delgado Province – on March 24.

The Double Troika is made up of Mozambique, the current SADC chair; Malawi (incoming chair) and the United Republic of Tanzania (immediate previous chair).

Other members include countries that constitute the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation – Botswana (current chair), South Africa (incoming) and Zimbabwe (outgoing).

The Summit is the highest policy-making body of the 16-member bloc, and will communicate resolutions that would have been made at the meeting today.
-Herald