Rwandan forces will help secure and rebuild areas of northern Mozambique destroyed by an Islamist insurgency, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said on Friday, as Mozambican officials began encouraging civilians to return to the gas-rich region.
People wait for friends and relatives as a ship carrying more than 1,000 people fleeing an attack by Islamic State-linked insurgents on the town of Palma, docks in Pemba, Mozambique, on April 1 2021.Rwandan forces will help secure and rebuild areas of northern Mozambique destroyed by an Islamist insurgency, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said on Friday, as Mozambican officials began encouraging civilians to return to the gas-rich region.
Kagame told a joint news conference in Maputo with his Mozambican counterpart Filipe Nyusi that Rwandan troops would help secure and rebuild the areas destroyed by the insurgency. Allied Rwandan-Mozambican troops moved in to recapture parts of northern Cabo Delgado - an area hosting $60 billion worth of gas projects that the militants have been attacking since 2017 - in July.
Some local officials have encouraged civilians to return, according to media reports, and the Rwandan military's spokesman said 25,000 people had been brought home."It is very safe for them to go back," Ronald Rwivanga told Reuters on Thursday.A document compiled in September for U.N. agencies and other aid groups, seen by Reuters, said it was not clear whether militant capabilities had been much reduced.
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