Tag: Mozambique

Now into its third year, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) finds its equipment stores significantly bolstered by a $100...

Border guards from the newly established Border Management Authority (BMA) have arrested two people and charged them with the possession of stolen goods, including...

A recent joint training exercise in Mozambique focused on evaluating quick reaction force (QRF) capabilities in the FADM (Forças Armadas de Defesa de Mocambique). Exercise...

The senior officer tasked with peace support operations at the Joint Operations Division of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) called on the Operation...

The head of Turkey’s Defence Industry Agency has signed a cooperation agreement with Mozambique to promote Turkey’s defence industry in Africa. Haluk Gorgun, President of...

Sixteen soldiers are acquiring boat handling skills at the Forcas Armadas de Defesa de Mozambique (FADM) naval base in Pemba. Twelve are Mozambicans with the...

The South African contingent of SAMIM (Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique) has a new commander. Earlier this month Lieutenant Colonel Thando Mpangeva took...

An exercise to evaluate two Mozambican quick reaction forces (QRFs) is currently underway in Manica province. The exercise – Gamba 2023 (Gambex 23) – started...

The Africa Centre for Strategic Studies (ACSS) maintains violence and fatalities in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado are presently at the lowest level in four years. The...

A rotation of Rwandan soldiers for its security forces’ joint task force (JTF) in Mozambique is accompanied by a change of command with Major-General...

The forward contingent of a two thousand plus Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) force is in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado to relieve an earlier peacekeeping deployment...

The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU) has not put paid to the island nation’s international peace and diplomacy obligations, evidenced by...

The presidents of Mozambique and Rwanda have been making victory speeches about the Cabo Delgado insurgency being almost over. They are creating the impression...

The CIMIC (Civil Military Co-operation) team of the European Union Training Mission in Mozambique (EUTM MOZ) is “significant” to the overall success of the...

Joyous singing and dancing punctuated a 23 June ceremony in Maputo to celebrate the end of a dark era in Mozambique’s history. Dancers symbolically...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) will remain in the east African country until mid-July next year to “consolidate gains...

Terrorism is a global problem affecting many countries. Until 2017, however, southern Africa was largely spared from this phenomenon. The bloody conflict sparked by...

In its weekly review, Zitamar News broke the disturbing story of the high death toll in Mozambique’s conflict-ridden Cabo Delgado province during the weeks...

An important component of the European Union (EU) training mission in Mozambique is its medical team always working on the premise that nothing can...

The Zambia Air Force (ZAF) has been supporting the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) with its C-27J Spartan transport aircraft and...

European Union (EU) training in Mozambique covers technical and tactical aspects with the overall aim of restoring peace but is not confined to military...

The first South African combat group to serve under Operation Vikela in Mozambique – Alpha – has done its time and the second –...

The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government had made a decision to resume construction of a concrete wall long the South Africa/Mozambique border to curb the theft...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended the deployments of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and...

A French connection was a training plus for Mozambican soldiers adding to their military skillsets ahead of deployment against terrorists in Cabo Delgado. The mobile...

Most terrorist campaigns – where a group targets civilians to achieve political objectives – are short-lived. But some aren’t. In some cases, terror campaigns...

For nearly two years, Mozambique resisted the call for foreign military intervention in Cabo Delgado to help fight the insurgency that started in 2017....

A gruesome video which surfaced earlier this year of bodies seemingly dumped into a fire and burnt in Mozambique by soldiers is still being...

A Finnish delegation was in Mozambique earlier this month (March) to keep up with European Union (EU) interests and developments in the east African...

Mozambique’s military is the launch customer for Paramount’s Mwari, which has been spotted in the southern African country in Mozambican markings. Photos of the aircraft,...

After a Mozambican military helicopter failed to rescue a stranded Mozambican from a flooded river, a South African Air Force (SAAF) Oryx crew managed...

Over the last year, violence linked to Islamist groups in Africa increased by a quarter while deaths grew by almost 50% to over 19...

South African inflatable boat manufacturer Mako Marine has concluded the delivery of a number of inflatable boats to the Armed Forces of Mozambique (FADM). Mozambique’s...

Kidnapping for ransom has been rife in Mozambique for almost two decades. Asian businessmen or their descendants and relatives are the most common targets....

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria are, along with Ukraine, the Sahel, Mozambique and Ethiopia, some of the conflict regions that have...

The number of Rwandan soldiers and police fighting terrorism in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province increased from 1 000 in 2021 to 2 500 by...

The senior officer in the European Union Military Committee (EUMC) was in Mozambique to see for himself what the union’s training mission in the...

Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias this week called on the European Mission Training Mission Mozambique (EUTM Moz) to discuss ongoing and future co-operation...

SA Army two-star Xolani Mankayi, Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) Force Commander, has just completed an extensive visit to all SAMIM...

The regional body which authorised the multinational military deployment to Mozambique to combat terrorism – the Southern African Development Community (SADC) – has added...

Two political parties and the country’s largest military trade union want speedy action following possible involvement of South African soldiers in what appears to...

A brief, but graphic, video on social media seemingly showing South African soldiers complicit in burning bodies has drawn the comment “despicable” from the...

Ongoing security co-operation between the United States (US) and Mozambique has seen a 10m coastal patrol boat added to the Mozambican Navy fleet. In addition...

June 7, 2022 was "an historic date," according to Mozambique's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Pedro Comissário Afonso, when his country won its...

South African Revenue Service (SARS) Customs officers have seized a substance used to manufacture the drug Mandrax. This seizure happened while the officers where inspecting...

Northern Mozambican commercial port Mocimboa da Praia is open and operating more than two years after it was captured by ASWJ (Al Sunnah wa...

Geography. History. Politics. Mistakes. They All Play a Part in the Rise of Violent Extremism in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province As young men prowled the...

Three days and four separate calls to SAMIM (Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique) areas of operation in the southern African country ended...

Mozambique’s armed forces have taken delivery of two refurbished transport aircraft acquired from Paramount Group. A Let-410 and a CN235M were recently handed over to...

With outside attention focused on violent extremism and gas exports, Mozambique’s democratic backsliding is proceeding apace. In his first three years after becoming president in...