The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, said on Thursday that the military and security operations to eliminate the terrorist threat in Cabo Delgado are budgeted at 275 million euros per year, and asked friends for help.

"We ask that our friends can help us, because the operations that are now underway [in Cabo Delgado] are very, very expensive, they are approximately 275 million euros a year," he said after an international meeting in which he asked for funding support.

Filipe Nyusi was speaking in a statement recorded in Aqaba, Jordan, and distributed by the Mozambican Presidency.

The President said that there are other investments needed, besides those to fight the insurgency in Cabo Delgado.

In another pillar of the strategy, up to "$320 million is needed to create real defense capacity for Mozambique," with training and re-equipment of troops, so that the country will be autonomous "to maintain peace" when foreign forces leave.

Parallel to that event, Nyusi was received on Wednesday by King Abdullah, who also held separate meetings with the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and the head of state of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi.

Thursday's sessions focused on security issues in East Africa.

As far as Mozambique is concerned, Nyusi made a positive balance of the meetings in the search for support.

"It was clear" for participants who want to support Mozambique, that they should "interact directly with the government or visible organizations" that act with "transparency and effectively," he said.

"We've been finding out that there are a lot of Mozambicans who are negotiating support outside for their organizations and then we don't know what it is," he explained.

Some of this support, via "intermediaries", "doesn't reach" the front, and some only serves for "instigations" and other purposes, he mentioned, without further details.