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Mozambique: fear of further terrorist attacks in the northwest

Another terrorist attack is believed to be imminent in northern Mozambique. This warning comes from a note from the consulting firm Pangea-Risk.

According to the press agency Lusa, analysts at this company have warned their customers of a potential attack in a few weeks on the town of Quitunda, near the site of the Afungi project. Pangea-Kisk is also worried about other attacks to Palma, while “the insurgents seek to regain control of the territory north of Mocimbao da Praia.

The Mozambican government for his part reaffirmed that the attack in the north is “an attack on the whole country.” _President Filipe Eyebrows is against direct involvement of the international community and wants only Mozambicans to fight armed groups. SADC, however, he advocated strengthening cooperation on cross-border surveillance.

Since 2017, several armed Islamist groups sow terror in the province of Cabo Delgado. Violence has escalated in the past two weeks after attacks in the city of Palma. Dozens of people died and thousands of residents were forced to flee.

The NGO ACLED already identified 2,600 dead before this latest attack, half of them civilians. More than 700,000 people are affected by this humanitarian crisis. In Metuge camp, nearly 23,500 people are trying to survive in makeshift shelters.

Manuacha Antonio has been here since 2020, after the invasion of Quissanga. This farmer is waiting for the end of the violence to return home. “I would like to go home. It is very difficult because I do not know where to find the money to buy clothes or household goods. I got by there, with what I produced in the farm. I used part of it for consumption, the other part, I sold it to buy other things. “

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