Mozambique: More than 2,900 displaced in Cabo Delgado between 25 August and 9 September — IOM

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Mozambique: More than 2,900 displaced in Cabo Delgado between 25 August and 9 September — IOM

4:34 CAT | 12 Sep 2025

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The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates that around 2,924 people have fled a new wave of terrorist attacks recorded in recent days in the districts of Muidumbe and Mocímboa da Praia since the end of August.

According to a report from that United Nations agency, “between 25 August – 09 September 2025, escalating attacks and heightened fear of violence by Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs) in Muidumbe and Mocimboa Da Praia districts led to the displacement of approximately 2,924 individuals (796 families) as of 09 September 2025”.

“This figure includes 2,158 individuals (611 families) who fled from other localities within Muidumbe district between 25 August and 08 September and 766 individuals (185 families) who fled within and from Mocimboa da Praia to Mueda district between 07 and 08 September 2025,” the document reads.

The report also states that IOM “continues to monitor displacement dynamics in real-time to inform evidence-based humanitarian planning and response efforts across northern Mozambique”-

By the end of July, attacks by terrorist groups in southern Cabo Delgado province had already displaced more than 57,000 people in Chiúre district.

Cabo Delgado province has seen a resurgence of rebel attacks since July, with the districts of Chiúre, Muidumbe, Quissanga, Ancuabe, Meluco, and most recently, Mocímboa da Praia being targeted.

On Monday, Lusa also reported that at least six people were killed and farmland looted during an attack by suspected terrorists in the Muidumbe district on September 6.

The Mozambican government on Tuesday lamented the terrorist attacks recorded in recent days in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, stating that it is the State’s role to pursue, delay, and stop attacks so that the population suffers “as little suffering as possible.”

“We regret this misfortune, but we will not stop at this aspect of mourning. That is why we have our forces committed to this end, and details will be provided, if necessary, by security agencies actually on the ground or by those responsible at the central level,” said Inocêncio Impissa, spokesperson for the Council of Ministers, after another meeting of the body in Maputo.

Referring to the attack that occurred in Mocímboa da Praia town on Sunday, in which four people were killed, Impissa assured that the Defence and Security Forces “are on the ground,” under the coordination of the Ministers of Defence and of Interior, to whom he assigned responsibility for providing information on the situation in that region.

Inocêncio Impissa also stated that it is the State’s role to curb the “wave of criminals” in Cabo Delgado so that new attacks do not occur and the “peace of Mozambicans anywhere in the country” is not jeopardized.

At least four people were killed and a vehicle was set on fire after suspected terrorists opened fire in the town of Mocímboa da Praia, local sources told Lusa on Monday.

The district administrator confirmed the four deaths, noting that order has now been restored in the region, with the Mozambican Defence and Security Forces pursuing the suspected terrorists who attacked the town.

In 2024 alone, at least 349 people died in attacks in northern Mozambique, most claimed by the extremist group Islamic State, a 36% increase over the previous year, according to a study released by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), an academic institution of the US Department of Defence.

Source: Lusa