Mocimboa: FDS seize important terrorist documents, detailed map of Palma – O País

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Mocimboa: FDS seize important terrorist documents, detailed map of Palma – O País

8:58 CAT | 13 Aug 2021

Picture: Twitter / @nrogeiro

On Wednesday, a team from O País and STV visited the town of Mocimboa da Praia, where Defence and Security Forces (FDS) exhibited military material left behind by the fleeing enemy. Among the material are documents that could help the FDS profile the insurgents’ leadership, as well assess their future plans.

Among the items found were instruction manuals for the use of different types of firearms, as well as religious manuals and books.

The documents include a hand-drawn map of the town of Palma, with clear indications of the location of FDS bases and outposts, as well as the exact location of churches, buildings of public institutions, hotels and other points of public interest. The map is believed to have been drawn up during the planning of the attack on the village last March.

One of the most interesting set of documents found by the FADM-RDF joint forces in Mocímboa da Praia, after its recapture for «ISCAP-Mozambique Katiba»: includes a detailed scheme from the defenses and FDS posts and barracks of Palma, in Portuguese and Arabic. pic.twitter.com/VQN88W6XEm

— Nuno Rogeiro @nrogeiro (also in Facebook) (@nrogeiro) August 12, 2021

Regarding armaments found, the FDS say they was not stolen from FDS barracks. Articles of the uniforms of the military and Rapid Intervention Unit were found, presumably used by the insurgents to impersonate national military forces.

The FDS says it is now carrying out actions to expand the security perimeter in the town, to allow the population to return and resume normal life, Mocimboa currently being without any civilians residents.

Eight women with children

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, eight women with children appeared in Mocimboa da Praia and were taken to a safe place.

The military authorities suspect that they are terrorists’ wives and children, as they rarely kill women and would have rather freed them than subject them to the rigours of flight.

Look at Mocímboa now

The scenario that currently characterises the town of Mocímboa da Praia is one of total destruction, most visibly in the port, where one can see that the cranes, cargo trucks and even the goods inside containers burned.

This scenario repeats itself all over the town, with practically no building having escaped. A town once busy and with a dynamic economy driven by the port itself, fishing, general trade and agriculture, is reduced to rubble.

In a flagrant affront to the sovereignty of the Mozambican state, the terrorists destroyed the buildings housing state bodies, starting with the District Court, the District Government and Municipal Council building, as well as the official residences of the district administrator and mayor.

All other institutions, such as the district directorates, the district command of the PRM, the delegations of the Tax Authority, of Migration and of Maritime Administration were reduced to rubble.

The BCI bank branch was torn down, and the Millenium Bim and Absa branches burned. The carriers’ terminals and their buses were reduced to ashes. Shops, stalls and even private homes were not spared.

On Wednesday, Aeroportos de Moçambique sent a team to Mocimboa da Praia to assess damage to the airport and to plan the rehabilitation of infrastructure and allow the resumption of air links.

Mocimboa da Praia airport had recently been modernised to allow it to receive regional flights, as well as emergency flights at any time of day or night, but the entire system that had been set up, and communication equipment, was destroyed.

This Thursday, the town was awaiting a visit by Governor of Cabo Delgado province, Valige Tauabo, who would learn about actions in progress to “clean up” the town and start thinking about the return of the region’s residents, now scattered across IDP camps in the districts of Mueda, Metuge, Chiúre and the city of Pemba.

#Mozambique news from The Village
In Awase town on the axis Mueda – Moçímboa de Praia the Joint Forces offensive completely dislodged the insurgency… what they left behind, some weapons with the names of the users “Abubacar” .. #RwandainMozambique pic.twitter.com/sOih1Xao9O

— Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 (@albcontact) August 12, 2021