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Mission SAGAR: INS Kesari Delivers Food Aid, Defence Equipment To East Africa's Mozambique
INS Kesari (Indian Navy)
INS Kesari, the Indian Naval ship, entered the Port of Maputo in Mozambique on Saturday (25 December) as per the deployment undertaken by the naval forces under the Mission SAGAR.
INS Kesari has delivered over 500 tonnes of food to Mozimbique to help the country deal with the drought conditions and the Covid-19 pandemic situation prevalent over there.
The ship is also carrying a couple of Fast Interceptor Craft along with certain self-defence equipment for the armed forces of the east African nation.
"This is the eighth such deployment being conducted in order to further Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Security and Growth for All’," the defence ministry said.
INS Kesari had provided medical and humanitarian assistance to the likes of Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, Mauritius and Maldives at the height of the pandemic during May-June 2020 as well.
Under the SAGAR mission, the Indian Navy has deployed ships to about 15 ‘friendly foreign countries’ since the onset of Covid-19.
More than 3,000 metric tonne (MT) of food aid, 900 oxygen concentrators along with over 300 MT of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) has been supplied by the Indian Navy as a part of these missions.
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