MAPUTO,
Mozambique
A statement issued by the Communications Office of the Mozambique Ministry of National Defence announces that General Eugénio Ussene Mussa died in Maputo today, February 8, 2021, after an illness.
General
Mussa (pictured) passes away only weeks after being sworn in to his new post by President
of the Republic Filipe Nyusi, having been at the same time promoted to the rank
of General of the Army.
Mozambican
President Filipe Nyusi last Thursday reshuffled the top leadership of the armed
forces (FADM).
He replaced Lazaro Menete with Eugenio Mussa, as Chief of Staff of the FADM. Mussa had previously been commander of the Civic Service of Mozambique, the body established to absorb young Mozambicans who cannot be recruited into the armed forces.
But even
before his appointment as Chief of Staff, Mussa had been put in charge of the
FADM units in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, as Commander of the
Northern Theatre of Operations.
In that
role, he addressed a military parade in the Cabo Delgado provincial capital,
Pemba, on 3 January and promised that 2021 will be “the decisive year” for
defeating terrorism.
He called
on Mozambican troops to act rigorously, to wipe out definitively the armed
groups that have been terrorising several Cabo Delgado districts since October
2017, and who have now pledged their allegiance to the self-styled “Islamic
State”.
Our reporter
says that General Eugénio Ussene Mussa had been hospitalised for some
time.
Mussa, a confidant of Nyusi since 2012 when he was defence minister,
was
from Moma, Nampula province.
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