become a tipping point for regional leaders in this in this area we know that the southern african development community has been meeting since at least a major 2020 and very little as you say has happened until now but it's likely that mozambique the muslim beacon government will face mounting pressure from regional leaders around decisive action to deal with the increasing security threat in the north of the country for instance the south african intelligence reports that they are possibly south africans involved with those militants in the north of the country and also just following the attack in parma at least a 1000 more muslim beacons try to seek asylum in neighboring tanzania they crossed the border on foot or try to at least but the u.n. was reporting that they weren't granted the asylum that they were looking for so this is a security threat and a humanitarian catastrophe really you've got about 6 or 700000 wasn't beacons have been displaced this is a situation that is affecting the region and it's likely that mozambique will have to make a decision today or in the coming days around regional

questions about how much mustn't we can't do one its own what's why now one of the southern african development community members has said that no member in that group should be or can fight that battle against terrorism alone and so that the community is coming together to see what they can to put forward his proposals and we're waiting to see if they'll be a concrete plan put together sometime today or in the coming days whether or not we'll see foreign troops on the ground in wasn't weak to contain those insurgents while the u.s. has now agreed to withdraw all remaining combat forces from iraq which was a point to fight against i saw there but talks with iraq's government haven't settled on a timeline mike hanna reports from washington d.c. the u.s. was represented by secretary of state turn to be blinken in his 1st direct or virtual talks with the iraqi government. foreign minister fired hussein head of the iraqi delegation emphasizing the high level nature of the discussions and his national security adviser made clear that the u.s. military presence in iraq was top of the agenda. the 2 sides agreed

questions about how much mustn't we can't do one its own what's why now one of the southern african development community members has said that no member in that group should be or can fight that battle against terrorism alone and so that the community is coming together to see what they can to put forward his proposals and we're waiting to see if they'll be a concrete plan put together sometime today or in the coming days whether or not we'll see foreign troops on the ground in wasn't weak to contain those insurgents. well let's get more now from day one my finger he's the southern africa director with the africa division of human rights watch and joins us now from london it's great to have you with us on the new start let's just focus on the aftermath of that attack in palma more than 11000 people were displaced but the army is saying that it is safe to return is it safe for people to return to this area is the situation finished now. it remains and so for people to attend to the toll of palma. clearly what capacity or prisons. is home a town so at this point it's not. because security forces but do no

the southern african development community has sense officials into northern mozambique to assess the threats posed by armed groups last months dozens of people were killed and more than 11 people were displaced when the turn of pomo was attacked by i'm sure lynch fighters the u.n. says nearly a 1000000 people face severe hunger in the region. as more. when palmer was attacked by an armed group that calls itself al-shabaab people scattered many hid in the forest for weeks until it was safe for the end to move this group has just arrived in the provincial capital some of them look traumatized they say they saw the children being killed some mothers say they don't know where they are they just saw them being taken away the bishop of pym says he suspects that this armed group is holding children as young as 11 in the camps and some analysts also say that they believe this armed group is recruiting child soldiers when families get to this reception center in him but they are registered and they will stay here until they can be moved to campus for internally displaced people is the stadium

linked armed groups has forced thousands of people from their homes the 16 member southern african development community has called the attacks an affront to peace in mozambique and the entire region often has more for us from johannesburg for me to what these countries hoping to achieve i of this meeting which is ongoing. well given that these regional actors in their words recognised the increasing security threat and wasn't beacon one that affects the region it's clear that they'll be mounting pressure on mozambique to look at the proposals put forward by the southern african development community with regard to an integrated regional approach there has been some concern that the most a beacon military has had difficulty in containing these attacks in the north of the country we know that after that attack in palma that has been one of the most devastating that some analysts have questioned the muslim beacons army's ability to secure the area the government has see it that they've retaken hama specifically but they are questions around how that happened and whether or not these militants these fighte

in the past weeks or months i do not have any evidence for that happening and the southern african development community just recently gave out a statement saying that it's a high risk that after the fasting time of ramadan there will be more heavy attacks again and obviously there's economic fallout as well friend french gas energy giant total said it was holding a $20000000000.00 gas project in the region due to the attack mozambique viewed this as a quote transformational project for its economy so the stop of it must be quite a setback. it's a disaster for the governments too to be frank was a big of a 6 poorest nation in the world and the government was hoping to pocket $96000000000.00 us dollars over the next 25 years due to this liquefied natural gas exploitation this is not going to happen for now so this is definitely a disaster for the economy and for the government as well. thank you. it is to the united states now where joe biden came into the presidency with lofty ambitions he pledged to bring the country out of the pandemic to fight racial injustice and to make a quote once in a generation

in the past weeks or months i do not have any evidence for that happening and the southern african development community just recently gave out a statement saying that it's a high risk that after the fasting time of ramadan there will be more heavy attacks again and obviously there's economic fallout as well friends french gas energy giant total said it was holding a $20000000000.00 gas project in the region due to the attack mozambique viewed this as a cold transformational project for its economy so the stop of it must be quite a stuff back. it's a disaster for the governments to to be frank with and we give a 6 poorest nation in the world and the government was hoping to pocket $96000000000.00 us dollars over the next 25 years due to this liquefied natural gas exploitation this is not going to happen for now so this is definitely a disaster for the economy and for the government as well a drink thank you. it is to the united states now where joe biden came into the presidency with lofty ambitions he pledged to bring the country out of the pandemic to 5 racial injustice and to make a quote once in a g

reporter: on thursday, a delegation of 16 southern african countries met to discuss the latest violence in mozambique. the southern african development communitycharged with finding a solution to the unrest. in eight-week, the president of zimbabwe said the summit agreed that the sadc force should be resuscitated and capacity to immediately so they can intervene. the violent escalation of an insurgency in the north of the country has sparked fresh concerns about security in southern africa, a region that has enjoyed relative stability in recent decades, but with these recurring attacks, hope is scattered. leah harding, al jazeera. hashem: let's take a closer look at a possible resurgence of iso. the large group was defeated in iraq and syria, but 10,000 fighters remained active in the region. iso has found a new lifeline in parts of africa by forging alliances with local armed groups. according to the u.s. defense department, violence associated with those groups rose by 43% last year, and the number of attacks led by axel across africa has grown by more than one third. ♪ for more on this, i am joined by our guest in london, joseph is a visiti

for them and conditions in here are basic an assessment team is the scene by the southern african development community that team is assisting threat levels and it will also see what other countries in southern africa can do to assist mozambique it's in with a report back to african leaders at a meeting on mozambique that's expected to take place at the end of april. somalia's president has extended his term in office for 2 more years president mohammed abdul he signed the bill into law despite opposition from some members of parliament his mandate actually ended in february sparking protests and calls for him to step down presidential and parliamentary elections were due to take place this year but the leaders of 5 semi autonomous states have failed to agree on how voting should be conducted catherine soy has more now from nairobi in neighboring kenya. a lot of somalis are saying that what the president has done is problematic on so many levels so he signed this motion into the last night but ideally what's supposed to happen according to the law is that once the lower house passes such a motion they

want to steps on thursday a delegation of 16 southern african countries met to discuss the latest violence in mozambique the southern african development community or s a d.c. is charged with finding a solution to the unrest in a tweet the president of zimbabwe said the summit agreed that the s a d.c. force should be resuscitated and capacitated immediately so that it can intervene the violent escalation of an insurgency in the north of the country has sparked fresh concerns about security in southern africa a region that has enjoyed relative stability and recent decades but with these recurring attacks hope is scattered hard in al-jazeera. now there's been another night of street violence in the northern irish capital belfast. where. protesters threw projectiles at royal right police who responded with water cannon the unrest began a week ago it's mostly been blamed on pro british youths tensions have been simmering caused by brigs trade issues they got worse after a decision not to prosecute republican politicians for violating a coronavirus lockdown. ukrainian president volodymyr zelinsky has visited soldiers on the eastern border his appeara

our steps on thursday a delegation of 16 southern african countries met to discuss the latest violence in mozambique the southern african development community or s a d.c. is charged with finding a solution to the unrest in a tweet the president of zimbabwe said the summit agreed that the s.c. d.c. force should be resuscitated and capacitated immediately so that it can intervene the violent escalation of an insurgency in the north of the country has sparked fresh concerns about security in southern africa a region that has enjoyed relative stability and recent decades but with these recurring attacks hope is scattered hard in al-jazeera. another day has brought another coronavirus record in brazil more than 4200 deaths were reported on the day that's the highest yes there are another 86000 infections all spittal intensive care units in most states a filling to capacity another round of coronavirus restrictions has come into effect in capital region as it struggles to contain a record number of new infections when insiders and its surrounding suburbs recorded more than 14000 cases on the state's new measures including on time curfew from midn

our steps on thursday a delegation of 16 southern african countries met to discuss the latest violence in mozambique the southern african development community or s. a d.c. is charged with finding a solution to the unrest in a tweet the president of zimbabwe said the summit agreed that the n.s.a. d.c. force should be resuscitated and capacitated immediately so that it can intervene the violent escalation of an insurgency in the north of the country has sparked fresh concerns about security in southern africa a region that has enjoyed relative stability and recent decades but with these recurring attacks hope is scattered leah harding al-jazeera let's take a closer look at the fall and possible resurgence of i still the group was laws near defeated in iraq and syria of the un was nearly 10000 fighters remain active in the region but i said has found a new lifeline impulsive offer by forcing alliances with local armed groups according to the u.s. defense department violence associated with those groups rose by 43 percent last year and the number of a task planned by us across africa drawn by more than a 3rd. for more on this joined by our gues

our steps on thursday a delegation of 16 southern african countries met to discuss the latest violence in mozambique the southern african development community or s. a d.c. is charged with finding a solution to the unrest in a tweet the president of zimbabwe said the summit agreed that the n.s.a. d.c. force should be resuscitated and capacitated immediately so that it can intervene the violent escalation of an insurgency in the north of the country has sparked fresh concerns about security in southern africa a region that has enjoyed relative stability and recent decades but with these recurring attacks hope is scattered leo harding al-jazeera. ukrainian president of all the mayor of lenski has visited soldiers on the eastern border his appearance comes at a time of heightened tensions with russia a buildup of russian troops along ukraine's border last week has been causing concerns for kiev and its european allies as well as the united states but russia says its military activity is defensive and has no plans to move into ukraine. i am i. a doctor has rejected suggestions george floyd's drug use and underlying health problems caused his dea

our steps on thursday a delegation of 16 southern african countries met to discuss the latest violence in mozambique the southern african development community or s a d.c. is charged with finding a solution to the unrest in a tweet the president of zimbabwe said the summit agreed that the n.s.a. d.c. force should be resuscitated and capacitated immediately so that it can intervene the violent escalation of an insurgency in the north of the country has sparked fresh concerns about security in southern africa a region that has enjoyed relative stability and recent decades but with these recurring attacks hope is scattered we are hard in al-jazeera now voting is under way in djibouti 73 year old is my all men who is seeking a 5th term in office he's been in power for 22 years main opposition parties of boycotted the vote and small hole of african nation is strategically located in one of the world's busiest trading routes and is home to several foreign military bases catherine soy is following the election from the kenyan capital nairobi so how much enthusiasm is there 1st of all given everything that's going on there with the election. well we

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to ensure that we assure the integrity and so that i need to your what about the southern african development community security troika brings together the leaders of zimbabwe and south africa but one as president. suggest some kind of regional response is imminent speaking on behalf of the troika. following our consultations we are going to me there. and right now we are to finish off with present. but you wanted to look for it when you see it there is speculation a regional force might be sent to mozambique deploying troops has been done before in the region in the late 1990 s. angola libya and zimbabwe send forces to the democratic republic of congo to assist the government before that soldiers from zimbabwe help to feature normal insurgence in central. the u.n. world food program says more than 900000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis in. al-jazeera. adrian for the good with you here in doha the headlines of al-jazeera a course in hong kong has convicted 9 prominent pro-democracy activists for taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019 thing clue the media tycoon f

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to ensure that we are sure the integrity and so that i need to your one of all the southern african development community security troika brings together the leaders of zimbabwe but swine and south africa but one as president. suggest some kind of regional response is imminent speaking on behalf of the troika . following our consultations we are going to me they've known. but no to finish off with present time up or so. you wanted to look for it when you see it there is speculation a regional force might be sent to mozambique deploying troops has been done before in the region in the late 1990 s. angola libya and zimbabwe send forces to the democratic republic of congo to assist the government before that soldiers from zimbabwe help defeat a number insurgence in central. the u.n. world food program says more than 100000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis. in public. how do we tasa al-jazeera. president joe biden has announced a $2.00 trillion dollar infrastructure plan that includes upgrading roads and bridges and more funds for public transport billions will also go towards

attacks by iceland groups has forced thousands of people from their homes the 16 member southern african development community has called those attacks an affront to peace in mozambique and the entire region of me tim miller is across this meeting for us from johannesburg in neighboring south africa for me that sort of has been grappling with this conflict for some years now without much progress has what happened and paul not created a great a sense of urgency here. well these attacks began in around 2017 but looking at what happened in parma in recent weeks it's of course created greater concern especially for regional leaders and looking at some of the preliminary meetings that have happened in the last day or so we've heard from the foreign affairs the international relations minister of ports one who's present at the meeting and he said that it's quite clear that the situation has morphed into a much bigger security threat as well as humanitarian catastrophe and looking and hearing some of the statements from these regional leaders it's quite clear that they're in my puter today to come up potentially wi

attacks by iceland armed groups has forced thousands of people from their homes the southern african development community has called those attacks an affront to peace in mozambique and the entire region the u.s. has agreed to withdraw all remaining combat forces which were deployed to fight against eisel but talks with iraq's government haven't settled on a timeline some soldiers and coalition forces will stay there to train the iraqi army all those the headlines i'll be back with more news here on al-jazeera after the string do stay with us. vaccines a promising path out of the pandemic but implementing the greatest inoculation in history is testing the global community around the world already a clear gap is that between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating their populations from the geopolitics to the pure economics the misinformation the latest developments what's going on here is very different for a start the faxing comes in the form of the nasal spray special coverage of the corona virus pandemic on a. day on the string should. be used in video games how do you react to that que

ensure that we are assured of the integrity and so that i need to your one of the southern african development community security troika brings together the leaders of zimbabwe and south africa but one as president. suggest some kind of regional response is imminent speaking on behalf of the troika. following our consultations we are going to me that known and right now to finish off with present. you want need to look for it when you see it there is speculation a regional force might be sent to mozambique deploying troops has been done before in the region in the late 1990 s. angola libya and zimbabwe send forces to the democratic republic of congo to assist the government before that soldiers from zimbabwe help defeater nama insurgence in central missouri and the u.n. world food program says more than 900000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis in public. algiers or. for gold has become one of iraq's top exports despite there being no gold deposits last year it exported nearly $8000000000.00 worth of gold to turkey alone so what's the secret asama been reports from baghdad.

humanitarian disaster now there is a lot of focus on this planned meeting amongst the southern african development community leadership. that has also been criticized for not having done a lot to or very much until now this is an organization that in the past has been reluctant to employ military intervention in a regional security issues and so a lot of people are concerned that thursday's meeting will be nothing more than a talk shop when there is a lot of pressure on these companies countries rather to put boots on the ground specifically south africa who is mozambique's neighbor does have far better military capability than was a big mozambique is startling with an army that lacks training as well as equipment but we also know that mozambique has been reluctant to pull in foreign military to have that kind of foreign intervention in the sovereign state so this is what's adding to that fluid situation that you've described a massive security threat but it appears little being done to try and stabilize that region given the the lack of ability by the mozambique and military ok they're bringing us the late

became government to acknowledge this crisis lipitor priority and reach out to the southern african development community side like tool seized in a meaningful way to do better look action plan but of course that is a challenge that most of the government. and willing to reach out for this kind of support just this afternoon the subject leaders were meeting in mock mozambique's capito but they came up with a very weak communique. was to immediately deploy it. on the grounds to assist muslim league and then another meeting at the end of this month so it shows that there is a reluctance to forward prioritize this crisis because the big east and willing to reach out to its neighbors the world health organization is appealing for fairer distribution of corona virus vaccine success that africa is being left out of the race to end the pandemic and see nation is a lifesaving tool in the response to the pandemic and $100.00 days into the year and also more than $600000000.00 in those it's emitted globally africa has that minister that only 20 percent more than $1000000000.00 up against remain on the margins of t

place right now what's happening in the region is that an assistant team sent by the southern african development community is in the region assisting the threat level and seeing what country you can do to assist was a big that team with a report that african leaders who are planning to have a meeting at the end of april that meeting will typically be about mozambique but people are nervous and some of them are panicking and either example a few days ago there was a rumor that a talent what the tat it turned out to be a hoax but a lot of people's lot of panicking is what i'm talking about possibly moving their wives and children out of combat and out of province to spiral of up to the capital where they feel it is less so they are people knowing that these attacks could continue and of course the military work with it that they are overwhelmed at this attack happened in march in parma weeks later people are still arriving at this age and sentence i've been his cell to they need some of the my desperate and of course the children coming alone looking for their parents if you play any relatives they can stay

sent by the southern africa development community and they are assessing threat levels, and it will see what other countries in south africa can do to assist mozambique. they report that africannxx h h h h h h)p)p,x,xnk announcer: this program was made possible in part by caesars entertainment, tom campion, utopia foundation, the cloobeck family, masimo foundation, mgm resorts, and nv energy.