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Mozambique: Militant Attacks Complicate Cyclone Response in Cabo Delgado
The New Humanitarian, 9 May 2019
Floodwaters from Cyclone Kenneth have receded, but damaged roads and bridges are keeping relief teams from reaching thousands still in need. To make matters worse, recent sporadic… Read more »
Are Insurgents In Mozambique Linked to Islamic State Militants?
This year, more than 600 people were reportedly killed by a terrorist organisation with possible links to the Islamic State, ISIS, in Cabo Delgado, the northern province of Mozambique. Jasmine Opperman, an Africa associate of Islamic theology on counterterrorism, has said there were between 7 and 10 cells operating in Cabo Delgado, but no evidence at this point in time of an overarching ideology or an overarching leadership, although there are indicators of extremism involved in some cell structures.
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A meeting was held between the two neighbours following an attack on Ntola village, situated between Mozambique and Tanzania on June 26. It was decided that police from both countries would undertake joint operations along the border in the northern province of Cabo Delgado - an area where both countries lost citizens in attacks which started in October 2017.
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Although the Mozambican government has reinforced the Defence and Security Forces presence in all districts where attacks by the unidentified armed groups operating in Cabo Delgado have been reported, the terror has not ceased in the province.
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It began in October 2017, when armed militants attacked a series of police stations. Since then, sporadic attacks on villages and government buildings have killed dozens of people, prompting a heavy-handed response from government security forces. But little more is known about the armed group or its motivations...
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Though the violence in Cabo Delgado, which has killed at least 90 people, first began getting serious attention more than a year ago, details about what's driving it remain elusive. It has been attributed to Islamic fundamentalists - but Mozambique has in recent years been spared the type of insurgency that has afflicted Somalia and multiple countries in the Sahel, and no convincing theory has emerged to explain why that might change now.
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