source: AFP; Cabo Ligado; Club Mozambique; VOA; Twitter; All Africa
actor1: Military Forces of South Africa (1994-)
actor2: N/A
location: Pemba
notes: Movement of forces: On 19 July 2021, South African special forces arrived in Pemba (Pemba, Cabo Delgado) as part of a deployment approved by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to help contain Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique. 1,495 soldiers were deployed. A force of 3,000 is being mobilized by SADC.