Mozambique: Police ban New Year fireworks in Cabo Delgado

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Mozambique: Police ban New Year fireworks in Cabo Delgado

7:32 CAT | 27 Dec 2022

Illustrative image: Miramar

The police of the Republic of Mozambique announced on Monday a ban on the use of pyrotechnic material during the transition of the year in Cabo Delgado, a province that has faced an armed insurgency for five years.

“The use and sale of pyrotechnic objects is prohibited,” Eugenia Nhamussua, of the communication and image department of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, told the media in Pemba.

According to the source, the measure aims to avoid incidents at a time when government forces are continuing operations to restore stability in several points in the face of incursions by armed groups that have terrorised communities for five years.

“Should there be any insistence on the purchase or attempted use of this material, we will be there,” Nhamussua added.

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Cabo Delgado province has faced an armed insurgency for five years with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.

The insurgency has led to a military response since July 2021 with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts near gas projects, but new waves of attacks have emerged south of the region and in neighbouring Nampula province.

The conflict has left one million people displaced, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and about 4,000 dead, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.

Source: Lusa