{"id":230722,"date":"2026-04-19T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-relies-on-rwandas-troops-to-fight-terrorism-what-happens-if-they-leave\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:32:20","slug":"mozambique-relies-on-rwandas-troops-to-fight-terrorism-what-happens-if-they-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-relies-on-rwandas-troops-to-fight-terrorism-what-happens-if-they-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Relies On Rwanda&#8217;s Troops to Fight Terrorism &#8211; What Happens If They Leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Rwanda has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/rwanda-warns-it-may-withdraw-troops-mozambiques-insurgency-hit-cabo-delgado-2026-03-14\/\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened to withdraw its troops<\/a> from Mozambique&#8217;s Cabo Delgado province, signalling a potentially decisive shift in the southern African country&#8217;s security architecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The threat of withdrawal is driven by a European Union (EU) warning that it may <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/207089\/mozambique-urges-eu-rethink-on-ending-rwanda-peace-mission-cash\/\" rel=\"noopener\">stop funding<\/a> the Rwandan Defence Forces&#8217; mission in Mozambique in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Rwanda&#8217;s military intervention in northern Mozambique began in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mod.gov.rw\/news-detail\/rwanda-deploys-joint-force-to-mozambique-1\" rel=\"noopener\">July 2021<\/a>, when Kigali deployed about 1,000 troops and police at the request of the Mozambican&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604150015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has threatened to withdraw its troops from Mozambique&#8217;s Cabo Delgado province, signalling a potentially decisive shift in the southern African country&#8217;s security architecture. The threat of withdrawal is driven by a European Union (EU) warning that it may stop funding the Rwandan Defence Forces&#8217; mission in Mozambique in May 2026. Rwanda&#8217;s military intervention in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651136:d3c068cf639b365d38809abb04e42a62:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,4345,6775,4704,682,257,33540,13886,254,576,8515],"class_list":["post-230722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fight","tag-leave","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-relies","tag-rwandas","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorism","tag-troops"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651136:d3c068cf639b365d38809abb04e42a62:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}