Mozambican forces fighting Islamic State in Cabo Delgado – report

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Mozambican forces fighting Islamic State in Cabo Delgado – report

3:27 CAT | 06 May 2020

FILE - Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi at a military graduation ceremony in Montepuez, in Cabo Delgado [File photo: Voa Portugues]

“Daesh (Islamic State) is, for the first time, being seriously challenged in Cabo Delgado,” Portuguese commentator Nuno Rogeiro told SIC television in Lisbon.

In an interview in the latest edition of “Leste a Oeste”, Rogeiro said that the group “is being defeated in many places”, in operations in which Mozambican forces have used drones.

Daesh is the Arabic acronym formed by the initial letters of “al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil Iraq wa al-Sham”, the former name of the Islamic State group.

On the programme, Rogeiro showed aerial images of what he said were Islamic State combatants fleeing attacks by Mozambican forces, allegedly supported by Zimbabweans.

The Portuguese commentator also quoted a message from one of the heads of Islamic State, of Ugandan origin, in which he tells the population that “we have come to free you from the pigs (…) you have to adopt Sharia law. We will come back”.

Yesterday, May 5, VOA saw a report on Rogeiro’s Facebook page about an attack by Mozambican forces on the Islamic State’s “main base” in Cabo Delgado, allegedly dubbed “Syria”. “Tanzanian and Ugandan commanders are on the run,” Rogeiro writes.

The Mozambican forces’ renewed response follows the authorities’ recent recognition that the country is the target of terrorist attacks. Attacks attributed to the group have killed at least 900 people and destroyed hundreds of homes and state buildings in Cabo Delgado province over the last three years.

The main base of Daesh ISCAP in Cabo Delgado is under heavy bombardment. It is called «Syria», houses the main Ugandan and Tanzanian commanders, and its fall may signal the end of the gang as fighting force. Of course monsters can mutate, and they are now mixing with civilians. pic.twitter.com/zvqLbQ8CT2

— Nuno Rogeiro @nrogeiro (also in Facebook) (@nrogeiro) May 5, 2020

Cabo Delgado: unidades especiais das FDS reocupam Quisanga sede, que era uma espécie de terra de ninguém desde 25 de Março, quando foi devastada pelo Daesh EIPAC. pic.twitter.com/pj8tQBOuxa

— Nuno Rogeiro @nrogeiro (also in Facebook) (@nrogeiro) May 5, 2020