Regional peace in Southern Africa requires a political and military solution working in tandem
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.This week, the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique will largely complete its withdrawal from Cabo Delgado, three years after its deployment.
While the mission is withdrawing from Mozambique, South African, Tanzanian and Malawian troops are six months into a new SADC mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo . 2 900 South African National Defence Force personnel for 12 months, while Malawi and Tanzania promise to provide the additional troops to make up the 5 000-strong force. South African troops are no strangers to the DRC, having been deployed as part of Monusco’s Force Intervention Brigade in 2013.
The Congolese security services must take responsibility for the DRC’s security and gain a monopoly on the use of violence to create stability. Questions to the ministry of defence and veterans affairs last year revealed that, of South Africa’s original fleet of 11 Rooivalk attack helicopters,are now deemed “serviceable with restrictions”. Of 39 Oryx helicopters, used for transport duties, rapid deployment operations and search and rescue,
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