{"id":43449,"date":"2021-07-13T19:41:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=43449"},"modified":"2021-07-13T17:48:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:48:05","slug":"broke-zimbabwe-fails-to-finance-mozambique-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/broke-zimbabwe-fails-to-finance-mozambique-war","title":{"rendered":"Broke Zimbabwe Fails To Finance Mozambique War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwe is reportedly struggling to mobilise sufficient resources to contribute to the Southern Africa Development Committee Standing Force (SADC SF).<\/p>\n<p>The force is supposed to start military operations to neutralise a deadly Islamist insurgency in Mozambique\u2019s Cabo Delgado region on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><b>NewZimbabwe.com<\/b><\/p>\n<p>reported military and official sources as saying Zimbabwe\u2019s military does not have adequate and suitable weaponry necessary in fighting asymmetric warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Under the SADC arrangement, member states are supposed to fund and equip their own combatants but following decades of economic atrophy, Zimbabwe has no money for the exercise. A source said:<\/p>\n<p>There are basically three things here. First, the Ministry of Finance says there is no money at the moment to finance the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters who go there will require allowances that can only be paid by the government and, as we learnt from the DRC experience, this is a very expensive undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, reservations came from those in the military that we lack the necessary tools to fight asymmetric warfare like this.<\/p>\n<p>Remember terrorists are different from a conventional army that fights openly. They play hide and seek.<\/p>\n<p>They are mostly embedded in communities and launch coordinated and sporadic raids before retreating quickly.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need for us to invest in modern technologies to successfully fight the insurgents such as drones and unmanned aerial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>We need to exploit cyberspace, but we do not have that capability at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>A military source told NewZimbabwe.com that highly skilled members of special forces were sent to Mozambique to do reconnaissance work last year.<\/p>\n<p>The source added that the report from the teams suggested that the best way to win the war was to use modern technologies to identify and weed out the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>The publication\u2019s efforts to get a comment from Treasury were fruitless as both Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and his permanent secretary George Guvamatanga were not available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri\u2019s mobile phone was being answered by one of her aides who said she was attending meetings.<\/p>\n<p>SADC last month resolved to deploy troops to combat Islamic insurgents in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year-old insurgency has resulted in the death of at least 2 000 people and the displacement of nearly one million.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe is expected to volunteer troops for the strong 3 000-fighter regional force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is reportedly struggling to mobilise sufficient resources to contribute to the Southern Africa Development Committee Standing Force (SADC SF). The force is supposed to start military operations to neutralise a deadly Islamist insurgency in Mozambique\u2019s Cabo Delgado region on Thursday. NewZimbabwe.com reported military and official sources as saying Zimbabwe\u2019s military does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,3995,4148,501,585,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-43449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-cabo-delgado","14":"tag-islamist-insurgency","15":"tag-mozambique","16":"tag-sadc","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Broke Zimbabwe Fails To Finance Mozambique War - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zimbabwe is reportedly struggling to mobilise sufficient resources to contribute to the Southern Africa Development Comm ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/broke-zimbabwe-fails-to-finance-mozambique-war\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Broke Zimbabwe Fails To Finance Mozambique War\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zimbabwe is reportedly struggling to mobilise sufficient resources to contribute to the Southern Africa Development Comm ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/broke-zimbabwe-fails-to-finance-mozambique-war\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-13T17:41:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-13T15:48:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60edb59469649.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"876\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/broke-zimbabwe-fails-to-finance-mozambique-war\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/broke-zimbabwe-fails-to-finance-mozambique-war\",\"name\":\"Broke Zimbabwe Fails To Finance Mozambique War - 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