Nyusi wants more money to fight the causes of terrorism
Nyusi wants more money to fight the causes of terrorism
But throwing more money at northern Mozambique is unlikely to overcome persistent and seemingly intractable issues
Good afternoon. Addressing the United Nations Security Council yesterday on the issue of violent extremism, President Filipe Nyusi proposed the establishment of a new fund “to strengthen local sustainable development initiatives, that could promote job generating projects for the youth, particularly in Africa and the Middle East”.
It sounds like a nice idea, but has money not been made available for such things before? Even if Mozambique’s northern integrated development strategy has ended up going nowhere, due to a lack of agreement with donors over its scope, and over the causes of the conflict.
As the latest edition of the Cabo Ligado Weekly, out today, reports, a new US-funded programme is in the pipeline to tackle economic exclusion (among other problems) in northern Mozambique.
The problem may be, rather, in the various obstacles that Mozambique and its donors always face when trying to overcome the apparently intractable issues of poverty and mass unemployment. The answer, whatever it is, is unlikely to be another fund.
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