Mozambique: Insurgent leaders close to Bonomade Omar captured and “cooperating” – Watch

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Mozambique: Insurgent leaders close to Bonomade Omar captured and “cooperating” – Watch

2:57 CAT | 12 Aug 2021

Leaders close to Mozambican Bonomade Machude Omar, considered a senior commander of the terrorists operating in Cabo Delgado, are among the insurgents captured by the Defence and Security Forces.

The information was provided by the Commander of the National Army, Cristovão Chume, who told TVM that some of the detainees were collaborating in Omar’s possible neutralization.

Bonomade Machude Omar is considered the main coordinator of the attacks carried out by terrorists in northern Mozambique and Tanzania.

READ: US names Mozambican terrorist leaders – AIM

Chume declined to give more details on the detainees, but told TVM: “What we know is that he [Omar] is alive, he is in this area of operations, he is around. We are going to carry out our intelligence work. (…) He has lost in these past few days some men of great importance, – who protected him – and we have already captured some of them”.

Journalist: Deputies [adjuntos]?

Cristovão Chume: Some deputies of his [have been detained]. (…) So, those people are cooperating and we are absolutely sure that, if he doesn’t die in combat, he will be captured.

Journalist; They [the men captured] are strong allies of his [Omar’s]?

Cristovão Chume: They are strong allies, not only of him, but also of the other leaders of this group.

Journalist: Did you capture any foreigner in this group?

Cristovão Chume: At the moment we don’t know whether they’re foreigners or nationals. Our investigations will tell.

Journalist: Is there no fear of Machude Omar escaping via Tanzania?

Cristovão Chume: Anything is possible. There are no assurances of anything. Therefore our assurance is that he will be fought. Here. He will either die in combat, or be captured, or he will have to run away.

Journalist: Is Tanzania cooperating on the border line? To avoid the escape of the terrorists?

Cristovão Chume: Tanzania is cooperating. (…) What is hoped for is that no terrorist transits into Tanzania and also none into Mozambique. But, just as Mozambique has difficulty controlling its borders in full and avoiding porosity, so does Tanzania. (…) We have a healthy cooperation and hope to step it up and that, in the context of Tanzania’s cooperation in SADC, this situation is solved for good.”

The Jjoint Mozambican and Rwandan force is currently advancing on insurgent bases of Mbau, Siri and Siri 2.

Watch the TVM report.

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