ED Mnangagwa met with President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique in Chimoio where they discussed the security situation in Cabo Delgado and parts of Mozambique’s Manica and Sofala provinces.
The meeting comes after Mozambique’s security forces killed at least 129 insurgents in the northern Cabo Delgado.
Since 2017, infrequent but violent raids on government buildings and villages by militias with suspected links to the Islamic State have intensified in Mozambique.
Also present in the meeting was Zimbabwe Minister of Defense, Oppah Muchinguri.
Zimbabwe has in the past deployed troops to Mozambique to protect the oil pipeline that runs from Beira to Harare.
Additionally, Mnangagwa chairs the SADC organ on politics, defence and security.
