Mozambique: Terrorists attack four districts in a day – AIM report

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Mozambique: Terrorists attack four districts in a day – AIM report

5:55 CAT | 23 Oct 2020

FILE - Cabo Delgado, Unity Bridge, on the borer with Tanzania. [File photo: DW]

Despite the recent counter-offensive launched by the Mozambican defence and security forces, islamist terrorists in the northern province of Cabo Delgado attacked four districts in a single day, last Tuesday, reports Friday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Carta de Mocambique”.

The jihadists attacked Koko village, in Macomia district, Roma and Nangololo in Meluco, Chirumba in Quissanga, and Matemo island in Ibo. The raiders destroyed buildings and stole property, but there were no reports of any loss of life in any of these incidents. On Matemo, the terrorists are reported to have kidnaped five youths.

The number of people displaced in the terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado, and in the attacks by the self-styled “Renamo Military Junta” in the central provinces of Manica and Sofala, has risen to 424,000 according to data presented by Luisa Meque, General Director of the country’s relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC), during a meeting in Maputo on Thursday of the Disaster Management Coordinating Council.

Meque said that the displaced people are now scattered across six provinces (Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Niassa, Zambezia, Sofala and Inhambane). 13 accommodation centres have been set up, where 3,981 households are now living.

Meque added that 18 neighbourhoods in Cabo Delgado have been identified where people displaced from their homes by the terrorist raids can be resettled.

In Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambezia and Sofala, 3,548 plots of land have been demarcated which can be occupied by the families fleeing from the terrorists and from the Military Junta.

Source: AIM