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Raid on Northern Mozambican Mine Leaves Police Missing, Operations Halted An attack on a mining site in Mozambique’s volatile Cabo Delgado province has forced miners to flee, left equipment ablaze and an unspecified number of police officers missing, authorities and local sources said Friday. The assault — blamed on Islamist militants — interrupted operations at the site and prompted fear among communities already traumatised by years of violence. What happened Raiders struck the extraction site in the north of the…

MSF Suspends Medical Services in Northern Mozambique as Violence Surges Mozambique’s conflict-scarred Cabo Delgado province has seen a sharp escalation in violence that has forced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend operations at a key district hospital, the international medical charity said Friday. The halt in services comes after weeks of armed incursions that have killed civilians, driven thousands from their homes and severed access to lifesaving health care in an already fragile region. Immediate disruptions…

Insurgency in Cabo Degaldo: A Struggle for Survival In the heart of Cabo Degaldo province, Mozambique, a chilling echo of violence reverberated through the quiet of a Sunday night. Insurgents armed with lethal intent knocked on doors, summoning their victims one by one, leaving a trail of fear and despair. Among the fallen were police officers, once protectors now turned targets, underscoring the alarming evolution of this violent insurgency, which has claimed over 6,000 lives since its onset in 2017. The Human Toll of…

Resurgence of Chaos in Cabo Delgado: The Human Cost of Insurgency As dawn breaks over the dense forests and emerald landscapes of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, a sense of urgency permeates the air, underscored by the echoes of armed conflict. In recent weeks, jihadist groups have intensified their violent campaign across several districts, resulting in a swift escalation of human suffering and disruption. This once-quiet province, rich in natural resources, has been plunged into turmoil as militants engage in increasingly…

This Saturday, July 18, the summit of the CPLP, the community of Portuguese-speaking countries, ended in Luanda. Angola took over the rotating presidency of this organization of nine member states, including Mozambique. The conflict in Cabo Delgado, in the far north of the country, where Total suspended its gas project after a jihadist attack in early April, was one of the summits, but no concrete…

Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, has been the scene for 3 and a half years of assaults which have killed greater than 2,500 folks and displaced 700,000 others, a few of whom are briefly housed in and round Pemba, houses for members of their households or in transit camps. With our particular correspondent on website,…

For 3 and a half years, Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, has been the positioning of assaults which have left greater than 2,500 lifeless and 700,000 displaced. Some are positioned in and round Pemba, both with relations or in transit camps. NGO MSF has been current on this area since 2019 and works in six buildings that welcome displaced individuals, a lot of whom are girls and kids.…

Whereas the humanitarian scenario stays essential in Cabo Delgado following the terrorist assaults in Palma, there may be a scarcity of economic sources to offer help to displaced individuals. Nonetheless, Pemba, the capital of this northernmost province in Mozambique, continues to obtain displaced individuals who, after a journey, are strewn with pitfalls looking for assist.…

In Mozambique, on March 24, a group claiming to be international jihadists carried out a spectacular attack on the city of Palma in the north of the country. Since then, the situation is far from normal again and the security crisis is added to the humanitarian crisis. Dino Mahtani, Deputy Director of the Africa Program for the International Crisis Group, visited Cabo Delgado in early 2021 to investigate this jihadist group that has…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, calls for "urgent action" to protect the civilian population in northern Mozambique. In a press release released on Friday, November 13, Chile's former president said the situation was "desperate" in the Cabo Delgado region, plagued by a spate of attacks by Shebab jihadists claiming to be part of the Islamic State.…