US keen to support Mozambique’s fight against insurgents
According to analysts questioned by Lusa, the US government demonstration of its interest in supporting Mozambique in fighting the armed insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado reflects the geostrategic importance of the African country to Washington.
According to a statement issued by the US embassy in Maputo, yesterday the US coordinator for counter terrorism, Nathan Sales speaking in Maputo said that US government was seriously interested in a partnership with Mozambique to stop armed groups in Cabo Delgado province and strengthening our friendship while together we face the challenge of terrorism.
Speaking to Lusa, Calton Cadeado, a lecturer at Joaquim Chissano University in Maputo and an expert in defence and security said that he viewed the readiness demonstrated by Washington as a good sign. The United States has never hidden the geostrategic and geopolitical interest that Mozambique has always taken for its position in the Indian Ocean, he recalling interest US officials allegedly expressed some years ago in setting up a military base in Nacala, Nampula province in the north of Mozambique.
Cadeado also said about that the presence of US-based multinational Exxon Mobil in natural gas projects in Cabo Delgado and the risk that the turmoil caused by the insurgency in the province would stoke various types of trafficking including drugs would also be a focus of concern for Washington. The US is one of Mozambique’s largest donor countries and this is not just out of altruism. It is in the interest of that country for the stability of the Portuguese-language nation.
Adriano Nuvunga, a professor of political science and director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), a civil society organisation in Mozambique agreed that the interest shown by the US fits into what it sees as the global war against terrorism. He said that, from the US perspective what is happening in Cabo Delgado is terrorism and deserves the same vigorous fight as the war against the Islamic state and Al-Qaida.
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