Maputo, March 17th Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said today at a meeting with his Mozambican counterpart in Maputo that the war in Ukraine will not reduce the European Union's support for the fight against terrorism in this African country. “Portugal will not fail bilaterally,” Rebelo de Sousa said. Within the framework established by the EU, added the Portuguese President, his country will continue to promote training programmes and “adequate” financial support to “fight terrorism” in Mozambique. Terrorism strikes “a fraternal country, with a brotherly state and a fraternal people,” Rebelo de Sousa said. The Portuguese president began a four-day official visit to Mozambique on Thursday and, in addition to holding meetings with his Mozambican counterpart, Filipe Nyusi, he is due to visit several military training centres in the country with which the EU is collaborating. At the end of 2021, the EU launched a military training programme in Mozambique with the aim of “providing training and support to the Mozambican armed forces in order to protect the civilian population and restore security in the province of Cabo Delgado (north)”, the mission's website said. In the northern province of Cabo Delgado, attacks have been taking place since 2017 by the jihadist group Al Sunnah wa Jamaah (ASWJ), known locally as Al Shabab. The Al Shabab group — designated in 2021 as an “international terrorist organization” affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) and has no ties to the Somali group of the same name — is responsible for more than 3,700 deaths, including more than 1,600 civilians, according to data on the location and events of the Armed Conflict Project (ACLED). In addition, the violence of these fighters has forced about 735,000 people to leave their homes, according to the latest data from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). “Far from over, the humanitarian crisis persists and hundreds of thousands of displaced people are surviving in precarious conditions,” warned Médecins Sans Frontières in December 2021. CHIEF AC/PM
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