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Mozambique: Officials Say Insurgency in Northern Mozambique Is Spreading
VOA, 17 December 2021
With violence by armed groups spreading beyond Mozambique's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado into neighboring Niassa province, President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday cautioned… Read more »
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Mozambique: Insurgency Threatens Conservation Progress, Environmental Protections in Niassa Special Reserve
Daily Maverick, 17 December 2021
Two years ago, Mozambique's spectacular and vast Niassa Special Reserve, bordering on Tanzania, was just getting over a horrific period of elephant poaching. Then it was swamped by… Read more »
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Mozambique: Insurgency Spreads to Niassa
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 2 December 2021
As predicted, and following Frelimo's model after the Portuguese 1970 Operation Gordian Knot (see this newsletter last week https://bit.ly/Moz-580), the guerrillas are moving… Read more »
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Rwanda: How ADF, Is Are Linked to Insurgents in Mozambique
New Times, 6 October 2021
In October 2017, armed extremists linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched an insurgency in Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique,… Read more »
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Mozambique: How Big Is the Islamic Threat in Mozambique? and Why Are Rwandan Troops There?
The Conversation Africa, 19 September 2021
Rwanda has sent troops to Mozambique to assist the government in fighting against a four-year Islamist militant insurgency. Political scientist Phil Clark provides insights into… Read more »
Officials Say Insurgency in Northern Mozambique Is Spreading
With violence by armed groups spreading beyond Mozambique's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado into neighboring Niassa province, President Filipe Nyusi cautioned against panic.
Insurgents linked to the Islamic State have staged attacks since October 2017 in Cabo Delgado, a coastal province rich in natural gas reserves and host to an estimated $60 billion worth of international investment in gas projects. The violence has left at least 3,100 dead, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), which tracks political violence around much of the world.
Attacks in Niassa, the province directly to Cabo Delgado's west, have been reported since at least mid-November, according to ACLED. The insurgency is connected to the Islamic State, but "the nature of that connection is a little bit unclear," said Ratner, of ACLED. He said insurgents identify as an Islamist group whose "core grievances are really about the lack of control that local people have over their lives." The insurgents propose wresting local control from the central government in Maputo and instead having "an Islamist form of self-government in the north."
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Insurgents in northern Mozambique are moving away from the heavy military push by the Rwandan and SADC troops and have gone to Niassa province. Two attacks have been reported in ... Read more »
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At the Mapupulu site for internally displaced persons a woman is seen patting mud into the frame of the hut her family is building after having fled the armed conflict happening in Northern Mozambique, Cabo Delgado province (file photo).
