By Petros Tseu
A group of Mozambican nationals protested in front of the North Korean embassy in Pretoria on Sunday against the use of North Korean doctors in their country.
Speaking to AlliedOneMedia Mateo Bonda said ; “We Mozambicans are against inviting incompetent North Korean doctors to our country as they reportedy ran clendestine clinics and caused a lot of medical accidents”.
Johanne Chikororo said Mozambicans want better health care to improve people’s health standard.
Various sources confirmed that there were around 150 North Korean people including doctors and their families in Mozambique violating the UN sanction by the UNSC resolution. Mozambique and North Korea governments allegedly sealed a deal to reject a 2020 pledge that Mozambican authorities had made to the UNSC to stop borrowing of North Korean doctors.
Food insecurity and malnutrition in Mozambique is high and there is high morbidity and mortality from preventable and treatable diseases like malaria, cholera and HIV / AIDS and where about 60% of the country live in extreme poverty.
Protesters indicated that Frelimo invited incompetent doctors from North Korea to put money in their pockets that could be spent on the Mozambican people.
In addition, they said Mozambican people had the right to urge the Government to work with better countries with advanced and modern medical technology.
The protesters held the national flag upside down in protest against a government that didn’t care about the people.
The protests comes in the wake of North Korean celebrations of what could have been Kim Jong II ‘ s birthday.
The late supreme leader passed on when he was 70 years from suspected heart disease and diabetes.
Loud music could be heard from the
North Korean embassy building as the protest went on outside the gate.
People inside the embassy did not respond to the peaceful protest.
Currently, Mozambique is on tenterhooks recovering from unprecedented post- electoral violence (from October 2024 to January 2025) and had been experiencing Islamic insurrection in the petroleum and other mineral- rich Cabo Delgado province in the north.
Mozambican people are suffering while the two countries are celebrating victory in rigged elections and the former leader’s birthday and continuing cooperation against international norms.
