MAPUTO, Mozambique
President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi said on Friday that “terrorism and violent extremism have brutally affected some districts of Cabo Delgado,” in the north of the country, but the ongoing military offensive is allowing a gradual return to normality.
Nyusi
was making his end of year speech, which this time the head of state did not
address after Christmas, for reasons which the Presidency has not explained.
Repeating
in essence what he had already said in Thursday’s speech in parliament on “the
general situation of the nation,” he noted that the joint offensive of the
Mozambican Defence and Security Forces (FDS), the Southern African Development
Community (SADC) and Rwanda had reduced the action of armed groups in Cabo
Delgado.
“We
welcome the commitment, dedication and patriotic sense of the FDS as they
gradually succeeded in restoring tranquility in places affected by terrorism,”
he said.
On
the security front, the actions of Junta Military, an armed dissidence of the
Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition party, also
constituted a threat to stability in the central region of the country.
But,
he continued, a country is not only marked by adversity, as the executive has
managed to contain the spread of the pandemic, grow the economy to a projected
2.1 percent by the end of the year and expand essential services of water,
electricity, education, roads, railways and bridges.
Also
in the area of the economy, the country experienced a major development in
natural gas projects in the Rovuma basin, with the departure in November from
shipyards in South Korea to Mozambique of the first floating natural gas
production platform in Africa.
“It
has been 365 days of making our way. In 2022, we want to increase our
resilience and the diversification of our economy in order to reduce
vulnerabilities to external shocks, financial, environmental and various
risks,” he stressed.
For
next year, Filipe Nyusi said the country has to be more “creative” in fighting
the pandemic.
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