Maputo, 10 May (AIM) – Mozambique plans to reopen later this year the border post with Tanzania, at Namoto, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
This border post was destroyed in an attack by the terrorist groups that have been plaguing Cabo Delgado since 2017.
“We are doing everything to very soon reopen the Namoto post”, the Minister of the Interior, Arsénia Massingue, said on Monday, cited by the German agency DW-Africa, adding “it will be reopened within this year, without fail.”
According to Massingue, work is under way to provide the border post with the minimum acceptable conditions for the population to make use of that passage between the two countries, where the border is demarcated by the Rovuma River.
Namoto was the destination of hundreds of people fleeing during the March and April 2021 attacks against the town of Palma, about 40 kilometres to the south.
The displaced people tried to cross the Rovuma River into Tanzania in search of safety.
This week, the Minister of the Interior is in Cabo Delgado and will also visit the districts of Palma and Mocímboa da Praia, the areas worst affected by jihadist attacks.
The attacks in Cabo Delgado have led to a military response since July 2021 with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts near natural gas projects.
The conflict has left more than a million people displaced, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and about 4,000 dead, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.
(AIM)
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