Terrorism in Mozambique

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies reported in January 2021 that there was a 43-percent spike in militant Islamist group violence in Africa in 2020. The 4,958 reported events linked to these groups represents a record level of violence, continuing an upward pattern seen since 2016.    Reported fatalities linked to African militant Islamist groups… Continue reading Terrorism in Mozambique

Mozambique attacks

With no end in sight, the fighting that started in October 2017 has continued to increase in intensity. It has forced almost a fifth of the province’s people to leave their homes and reduced access to care and other services in the area to almost nothing.     Nearly 670,000 people have been forced from their… Continue reading Mozambique attacks

US – Mozambique

A Statement was made on 20 March 2020  that the elite Green Berets of the US have been deployed to help defeat Islamic State insurgents accused of beheading children as young as 11 in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.   The US Army Special Forces soldiers are to train Mozambican marines for the next two months to counter… Continue reading US – Mozambique

Attack in Cabo Delgado Mozambique (Isis)

  Several people reportedly dead after attack in Palma near a liquified natural gas site in Cabo Delgado province (northern province).  According to workers and security sources a 180 people, including foreign workers were trapped in the hotel by fighters of Isis (Isil). *Several people were dead, AFP news agency reported citing witnesses and a… Continue reading Attack in Cabo Delgado Mozambique (Isis)

Mozambique – Islamists at port – Mocimboa da Praia

  Militants linked to the Islamic State group have seized a heavily-defended port in Mozambique after days of fighting, according to reports.    Local media say government forces that were in the far northern town of Mocimboa da Praia fled, many by boat, after Islamists stormed the port.   The town is near the site of natural… Continue reading Mozambique – Islamists at port – Mocimboa da Praia