Tanzania as deployed troops to her border with Mozambique as the Islamic State insurgents continue to launch more attacks in the restive Cabo Delgado Province. The troops’ deployment is a pre-emptive measure seeing as it is relatively calm on the Tanzanian side.
The troops were deployed to boost security especially as intelligence indicates that Jihadists from Tanzania have been exploiting the porous border to join the ISCAP terror organization in Mozambique. This is also the second time that Tanzania has deployed troops to her border with Mozambique to strengthen security in an attempt to ensure that the crisis in the latter does not spill over to the East African nation.
Tanzanian Ministry of Defence and National Service has requested that the country’s parliament approve TSh2.1 trillion to facilitate the projected military operations towards upholding the country’s national security.
Last month, the group reportedly massacred at least 50 people in Muidumbe district when they over-ran the district’s capital Namacunde and occupied the district police command. According to the United Nations it has recorded 28 attacks in the area since the beginning of 2020, which killed up to 400 people and displaced at least 100 000 others.
In recent weeks, the ISCAP insurgents in Mozambique have been adopting new techniques and increasing the frequency of their attacks in oil and gas-rich restive north. Intelligence indicates that while the Mozambican government previously failed to address the insurgency; counterinsurgency measures and strategies are being implemented to ensure that it does not expand further.
