KIGALI, Rwanda
An ambush in Mozambique killed three Rwandan soldiers over the weekend and wounded six, a Rwandan army spokesperson said Tuesday.
Kigali said in 2021 that it
would deploy roughly 1,000 members of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and the
Rwanda National Police (RNP) to Mozambique, plagued by a long-running
insurgency.
“It is true our soldiers in
Mozambique were attacked in an ambush, in which three were killed,”
spokesperson Ronald Rwivanga said, referring to the May 3 incident in Cabo
Delgado province.
“It is a combat zone and some
of these incidences are expected, but the situation was handled,” he said,
adding that those wounded are “recovering well”.
The gas-rich Cabo Delgado
province has in recent months been the target of successive attacks by
militants linked to the Islamic State group.
It is the latest uptick in
clashes in an area blighted for years by jihadist violence that has killed
thousands of people, uprooted over a million from their homes and forced the
suspension of a giant gas exploration project by TotalEnergies.
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