The first phase of an ironic end to a three-year peacekeeping mission in Mozambique has begun and final phase will come in July when the last SADC troops withdraw from the troubled Cabo Delgado Province.
The SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) was deployed to Cabo Delgado when an ISIS franchise intensified its terror campaign, in the process displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians. It is useful to keep this detail in mind: that the insurgency began not in 2021 when SAMIM was formed but four years earlier.
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