Angola will maintain the Angolan component of the SADC joint force for the Southern African Mission in Mozambique for another three months, with human and financial resources equivalent to 1.1 million dollars.

A few days ago, the National Assembly approved the joint special opinion report and the draft resolution authorizing the President of the Republic to maintain the Angolan component of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Standby Force in Mozambique.

According to the Lusa news agency, the draft resolution authorizes the President, as commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces, to maintain the Angolan component, which will be made up of 20 military personnel, namely two officers in the regional cooperation mechanism, eight officers in command of the force and 10 crew members.

The Angolan mission also includes material resources, namely an IL-76 strategic air projection aircraft, financial resources worth 1,174,307 dollars, with a duration of three months, also including logistical support and training, to strengthen the capacity of the Mozambican Armed Forces.

The document stresses that Angola has been a member of SADC since it was founded in 1980, and that the community is governed by the principles of sovereign equality, solidarity, non-interference in the internal affairs of states and cooperation in a wide variety of areas.

SADC, the document quoted by Lusa also highlights its concern about the situation of insecurity prevailing in Mozambique, with terrorist acts perpetrated against innocent civilians, women and children in some districts of Cabo Delgado province, held an extraordinary summit of heads of state and government on June 23, 2021, in Maputo, Mozambique, with the aim of assessing the situation in that country.