Mozambique: ‘Don’t be lured by terrorist group promises’ – president tells youth

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Mozambique: ‘Don’t be lured by terrorist group promises’ – president tells youth

3:12 CAT | 09 Sep 2022

Photo: Notícias

President Filipe Nyusi on Friday warned young people not to be lured with promises of work by armed groups, saying that “many people deceived by terrorists are missing.”

“Let them not deceive you, because those who have been deceived are missing, and we don’t know where they are,” Nyusi stressed.

Mozambique’s head of state was speaking at a meeting, after inaugurating the building of the Judicial Court of Vandúzi District, in Manica province, central Mozambique.

Young people, he said, should take advantage of job opportunities that are being created in various sectors of the economy, particularly agriculture and industrial units.

“There is work in the ‘machambas’ [agricultural fields and small factories]” that are coming on stream, he said.

Filipe Nyusi called on people to remain “vigilant” to attempts at enticement by armed groups, praising the resistance of Manica’s communities to attempts at mobilisation by insurgents.

The President said on Thursday that the country should prevent the expansion of armed groups to more provinces, noting that “terrorism has no borders, no barracks”.

Earlier, on Wednesday, the head of state said that at least six people had been killed since Saturday in a new wave of armed attacks in northern Mozambique and fighting is ongoing.

“Six citizens have been beheaded, three kidnapped, and dozens of houses have been set on fire,” Nyusi said in the city of Xai-Xai during a speech alluding to Victory Day.

Some points in the extreme north of Nampula province, along with Cabo Delgado, are the scene of instability caused by the presence of armed groups.

Cabo Delgado province is rich in natural gas but has been terrorised since 2017 by armed violence, with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.

The insurgency has led to a military response since a year ago by forces from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts near gas projects but leading to a new wave of attacks in other areas closer to Pemba, the provincial capital.

There are about 800,000 internally displaced people due to the conflict, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and about 4,000 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.

Source: Lusa