Rwanda: Kagame, Mozambique President Maintain Talks in Kigali

President Paul Kagame and his Mozambican counterpart Filipe Nyusi on Thursday, January 25 held talks in Kigali.

Their discussions centred round “methods to additional strengthen the prevailing productive bilateral cooperation in varied areas of mutual curiosity,” Village Urugwiro mentioned on Friday morning.

Rwanda and Mozambique cooperate in ways in which embody military operations within the Southern African nation’s province of Cabo Delgado, the place their armed forces struggle in opposition to Islamic State-linked terrorists.

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In a Fb publish on Friday, President Nyusi mentioned his working go to lasted “a couple of hours” and that with President Kagame they mentioned methods of “addressing problems with bilateral cooperation, deepening and strengthening the pleasant ties between the 2 peoples and nations.”

His go to got here three days after that of Admiral Joaquim Mangrasse, the Chief of Basic Employees of Mozambique’s Armed Defence Forces (FADM), who met with General Mubarakh Muganga, Chief of Defence Employees of Rwanda Defence Power (RDF).

Mangrasse mentioned their discussions centred across the two nations’ collaboration in combating terrorism.

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Final night in Kigali, President Kagame obtained President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique for a dialogue on methods to additional strengthen the prevailing productive bilateral cooperation in varied areas of mutual curiosity. pic.twitter.com/OWpdFfYI9v— Presidency | Rwanda (@UrugwiroVillage) January 26, 2024

In July 2021, Rwanda deployed troops to the area situated off the coast of the Indian Ocean, on the request of Nyusi’s authorities.

Joint operations by Rwanda Safety Forces and FADM have uprooted the insurgents from many of the territory they managed earlier than the Rwandan deployment.

Greater than 250,000 residents of Cabo Delgado, who had been displaced by the insurgency, have returned to their houses. Financial actions have resumed within the coastal districts resembling Palma, Mocimboa da Praia and Ancuabe, which had been paralysed by terrorist assaults since 2017.

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Mozambican officers commend Rwandan troops for having carried out “a very good job” of combating members of the Ansar al Sunnah wal Jama’a bunch.

The Islamist group, accused of killing greater than 4,000 civilians and taking hostages, had wreaked havoc in six districts, particularly Palma, Nangade, Muidumbe, Quissanga, Macomia and Mocimboa da Praia.

A mission from the Southern African Growth Neighborhood (SADC) operates in Nangade, Muidumbe and Quissanga. Nevertheless, the Rwandan, Mozambican and SADC forces perform joint operations now and again.

In December, the forces mentioned they had been planning to launch renewed attacks on the terrorists now situated in a forested space within the district of Macomia.