Troops deployed by the South African Development Community (SADC) to combat a jihadist insurgency in the north of Mozambique will be withdrawing from the country due to budget constraints.
The insurgency has been ongoing for six years and first saw Rwanda deploy troops to the region, followed by SADC.
The President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, said that the SADC troops would be withdrawn by July.
He said that SADC now considered the area relatively stable, especially compared to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where SADC troops had also been deployed.
Nyusi also said that the fight against the jihadis was not over and that countries had said they would still be willing to work with Mozambique on a bilateral basis to combat the insurgency.
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