Mozambique

The Islamic State group announced earlier this week that it had taken control of the port city of Palma, in northern Mozambique, after an attack that killed dozens of people, according to Maputo. Which ISIS-affiliated group led this offensive? What is its strategy, what is its goal? What does this situation mean in relation to…

Fierce struggle for control of Mozambique's strategic northern city of Palma left beheaded corpses strewn in the streets on Monday with heavily armed rebels fighting army, police and private military equipment in several places. Thousands are estimated to be missing from the city, which held about 70,000 people before the attack started last Wednesday. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on Monday, saying it was carried out by the Islamic State, the province of Central Africa, according to…

Palma is now a ghost town after the large-scale attack in recent days carried out by fighters from a jihadist group affiliated with the Islamic State. The majority of its 75,000 inhabitants have fled the city. On Monday, the authorities in Maputo organized a helicopter flight for journalists. In particular, a journalist from…

The Islamic State took responsibility on Monday, March 29, for the attack in the coastal region of Cabo Delgado, where Total is established to exploit a mega submarine gas field. Does this new jihadist offensive call into question a project that is likely to change the island of Mozambique? Contacted by RFI, Total said "to…

The information came to the headlines in the Ivorian press this Tuesday morning, March 30: "FACI, the armed forces on the Ivory Coast, are routing the attackers," Fraternité Matin exclaims."What happened in Kafolo and Kolobougou," says L'Intelligent. L'Intelligent, which takes up the army's statement that "during the night from Sunday to Monday, two FACI positions were hit by armed attacks. The first occurred in Kafolo and…

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Monday, March 29, for almost a week of attacks on Palma, a port city in northern Mozambique on the border with Tanzania. The capture of Palma further aggravates the humanitarian situation in the region, as thousands of people, locals and international workers, have been forced to flee. According to the few testimonies that emerge, Palma is now a ghost town. Mozambican security forces have launched an offensive to regain control of the town. taken by the men of the…

The Islamic State group claims responsibility for the attack on Palma, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique. An attack that, according to the authorities in Maputo, would have killed dozens of people and caused the flight of thousands of refugees since Wednesday. The jihadist organization that the Mozambican Islamist group Ansar al-Sunna has joined claims that he "controls the coastal city", a few kilometers from the French Total gas mega project, a project that has been suspended again since…

Hotel attack in Mozambique: Brit missing after terrorist attack killed dozens A British man is missing after leaving a hotel in Mozambique that was heavily attacked by militants. Islamic State said Monday it was behind the ambush in the northern city of Mozambique, in which dozens of people, including foreign workers, were killed. Sky News understands that British contractor Philip…

In Mozambique, Palma, a small port city in Cabo Delgado, the victim of a coordinated attack by a jihadist group active in the province for more than three years. The group, which calls itself local Al-Shabab, launched its attack on Wednesday and took control of the city on Friday night. The number of accidents among the inhabitants is uncertain. Since Wednesday, there are thousands fleeing the area…

Dozens of people were killed in coordinated extremist attacks in northern Mozambique's Palma city, the government said on Sunday, four days after the raid was launched, forcing the evacuation of thousands of survivors to safety in the provincial capital Pemba. Seven people were killed in an ambush during an operation to evacuate them from a hotel where they had sought refuge, it is said. "Last Wednesday, a group of terrorists sneaked into ... Palma and launched operations that resulted in the cowardly…