No short-term solutions to Mozambique crisis, says expert
Wits University Professor for African politics Anthoni van Nieuwkerk says there are no short term solutions to the insurgent crisis in Mozambique.
Van Nieuwkerk has commented on the outcomes of the emergency summit held in Maputo yesterday ,hosted by Mozambique President Filipe Nyuseand which was attended by the six Southern African regional countries.
The talks of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) centred around the attack on the northern Mozambican harbor town of Palma two weeks ago.
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“There are no short term solutions so it is important to design intervention on military and non-military basis and begin to address the problem and hopefully when president Nyuse looked at the five other Presidents in the room, there was a meeting of minds.
“The SADAC meeting was able to persuade the Mozambican government to listen to advise and allow its neighbors to rally its course of designing an intervention that will begin to address the problem, ” says Van Nieuwkerk.
According to the United Nations, over 11 000 people have been forced to flee as a result of the attacks while dozens of people have been killed.
One South African was amongst those killed when the heavily armed militants attacked Palma.
