The Rwandan Joint Force deployment to Mozambique is already celebrating its first successes against insurgents, while the first soldiers from the long-awaited Southern African Development Community (SADC) have only started trickling in.
There is also some uncertainty within SADC member countries as well as within its secretariat about how their forces will operate alongside the Rwandan deployment, which was sent after a bilateral agreement with Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi.