Tens of thousands flee in new wave of brutal Mozambique attacks
Maputo, Mozambique Reuters Tens of thousands of Mozambicans are fleeing their homes in the restive Cabo Delgado province amid a surge in deadly insurgent attacks since January. The attacks, despite a massive security clampdown, are continuing as French oil company TotalEnergies aims to restart a $US20 billion liquefied natural gas terminal in Cabo Delgado in […]
At least six Mozambicans beheaded, Italian nun shot dead by insurgents
Maputo, Mozambique Reuters At least six people were beheaded and an Italian nun killed on Tuesday by Islamic State-linked insurgents in Mozambique’s Nampula province, authorities said on Wednesday. Speaking in the resort town of Xai Xai north of the capital Maputo, President Filipe Nyusi said the insurgents unleashed a killing spree as they fled from […]
Christians facing ongoing persecution in northern Mozambique
Nairobi, Kenya John Tembe’s voice trembles as he narrates how jihadists in Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique brutally hacked his brother to death for refusing their demand to renounce Christ. “He risked his life by refusing to convert to Islam,” a 30-year-old father of three said by phone from the northern part of the country. “He was […]
Mozambicans return to uncertain future after Islamists pushed back
Palma, MozambiqueReuters Rwandan forces will help secure and rebuild areas of northern Mozambique destroyed by an Islamist insurgency, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said on Friday, as Mozambican officials began encouraging civilians to return to the gas-rich region. The United Nations has warned of a continuing militant threat in Cabo Delgado, where Rwandan forces are patrolling […]
Mozambican churches urge decisive government action on deadly armed conflict
As Mozambican churches respond to growing humanitarian challenges in the country, their leaders are urging the government to act decisively to end a violent conflict in the north which has left behind a trail of death, destruction and displacement. The church leaders’ focus is on Cabo Delgado, a northern province, where attacks blamed on an […]
UN warns Tanzania not to reject people fleeing Mozambique violence
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters United Nations teams have received “worrying” reports that Tanzania has rejected over 1,000 people seeking refuge from an Islamic State-claimed attack on a town in northern Mozambique, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. The 24th March attack on the town of Palma, adjacent to gas developments worth $US60 billion, sent […]
Essay: Offshore gas finds offered major promise for Mozambique – what went wrong?
In an article first published on The Conversation, THEO NEETHLING, a professor of Political Science at the University of the Free State, looks at the situation in Mozambique where hundreds were killed and thousands forced to flee after an attack by Islamist militants on the town of Palma…
Mozambique army says town attacked by insurgents is now secure
Maputo, MozambiqueReuters The town in northern Mozambique that Islamic State-linked insurgents attacked late last month is now secure after the military killed a significant number of militants and cleared one final area, an army spokesman and a provincial official said. “We have completed the clearing [of the town]. It was the only sensitive area that […]
Mozambique: Virus fears as conflict fuels overcrowding, hunger
TAVARES CEBOLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Maputo on how the ongoing conflict in Mozambique’s north has left families in a state of uncertainty…
World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance appeal to Mozambique’s President to tackle “unacceptable violence” in northern and central provinces
The World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance has expressed concern over the number of violent attacks involving armed groups in the country’s northern and central provinces in recent years and urged Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi to intervene and “put an end to these atrocities”. In a letter to the President, the WCC, which represents more […]