Mozambique

The French oil group has suspended certain contracts with companies linked to its mega project for gas in Mozambique. This project has stood still since the attack launched in late March by jihadist groups against the city of Palma in the province of Cabo Delgado, about ten kilometers from the Total Group's facilities. The Frenchman has since evacuated his staff.…

"Idriss Déby between the ballot box and the rebels' cannon," says Walfau Senegal. "While the first tendencies in the presidential election in Chad are largely favorable to him, we read, Idriss Déby sees the country he claims to lead for a sixth term being attacked in the north."Attacked by the rebels from the facts, the front of the alternation and Chad's concorde. They say they want to end what they see as a "relentless…

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…

Nearly one million people are facing severe hunger in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands have fled aggravated extremist violence, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday. Daesh-linked insurgents last month attacked Palma, a city in the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado next to major gas projects under development by companies including Total and Exxon. The World Food Program (WFP) said in a survey in Geneva that 950,000 people are now hungry in Mozambique. It appeals…

On the southern part of the African continent, the regional organization of SADC presented on Thursday afternoon, April 8, the conclusions of its extraordinary summit, which was organized as soon as possible on security and humanitarian crises in Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique. Two weeks after the spectacular and deadly attack on Palma by a group claiming to be international jihadists, five leaders…

In Mozambique's war-torn city of Palma, 12 people believed to be foreigners were found beheaded after a Daesh-alleged attack on the city, a local police chief told state television station TVM. The news comes when South African leaders will meet in Mozambique's capital Maputo on Thursday to discuss ways to respond to extremist rebels. The police chief, Pedro da Silva, told reporters visiting the city that he could not be sure of the nationalities of the 12 people, but he thought they were foreigners…

Forward of the extraordinary summit of the regional group SADC on the humanitarian and safety disaster in Cabo Delgado, President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi spoke on Wednesday, April 7, in a televised speech. "Those that come from overseas is not going to be there to exchange us, they are going to help. It just isn't an issue…

The UN warned Tanzania to accept asylum seekers fleeing Mozambique from terrorist attacks. UN law has received "worrying" reports that Tanzania has rejected more than 1,000 people seeking refuge from a Daesh-alleged attack on a city in northern Mozambique, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. The March 24 attack on the city of Palma, next to the gas development worth $ 60 billion, sent the city's residents scattered in all directions, and some fled into dense…

Almost two weeks after the attack on the port city of Palma by the armed group calling itself Al-Chabab, the Mozambican authorities confirmed on Monday, April 5, to gradually regain control of the situation. "It is not over yet (...) but a significant number of terrorists have been shot," the commander of military operations in…

Mozambique's military said on Sunday that a "significant" number of militants had been killed during a battle over the main northern gas district of Palma, which had been captured last month by an armed militant group believed to be affiliated with the Daesh terrorist group. Palma was seized by extremists during coordinated attacks on March 24, in what was seen as the biggest escalation of the uprising that has ravaged the North African nation since 2017. The actual number of deaths is not yet known,…