Africa News of Monday, 12 April 2021
Source: africanews.com
A fresh attack by a homegrown insurgency in northern Mozambique may be coming soon, according to consultancy firm Pangea-Risk
Citing local sources, it said an attack on the town of Quitanda, near the Afungi gas site, is expected in the coming weeks.
Since 2017 an insurgency that pledges allegiance to the Islamic State group has been capturing towns in the north.
Known locally as Al Shabab, they have killed thousands and displaced some 700.000 since waging their war, mainly in the Cabo Delgado province.
The strategic area borders Tanzania and is an area that is rich in natural gas.
The Mozambican government has reiterated that attacks in the north are "an attack on the whole country" and says it will be Mozambique's military who fights the armed Islamist groups.
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