Mozambique. Terrorists invade fishermen’s camp, steal food in Muidumbe district

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Mozambique. Terrorists invade fishermen’s camp, steal food in Muidumbe district

10:25 CAT | 20 Sep 2023

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A group allegedly made up of rebels invaded a fishermen’s camp and stole food in the district of Muidumbe, Cabo Delgado, on Thursday afternoon, local sources told Lusa on Monday.

The camp was at Lake Nguri [Lagoa Neguri], in the village of Miangalewa, Chitunda administrative post.

According to a local source, in addition to looting food, the rebels destroyed improvised infrastructure there.

“When they arrived, they started shooting and we fled to Miangalewa without taking anything. They took our food and set fire to the huts,” a local source told Lusa.

Another source from Muidumbe said that the rebels also took the fishermen’s canoes.

“They used our own canoes to transport the food they stole,’ a fisherman from the village of Miangalewa reported.

The Local Force, a group of former liberation struggle fighters who support government forces, was contacted, but arrived at the scene too late, said the source, adding that the attack left no fatalities.

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Reports of new rebel incursions into northern Mozambique have been common in recent days.

READ: Mozambique: Islamic State claims to have executed 11 Christians in north

The terrorist organization Islamic State claimed, through its propaganda channels, to have executed 11 Christians in Mozambique, in the district of Mocímboa da Praia, province of Cabo Delgado.

Local sources interviewed by Lusa on Sunday said that the attack took place in Naquitenge, a village in the interior of the Mocímboa da Praia district.

These incursions take place less than a month after the announcement by the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Mozambique, Joaquim Rivas Mangrasse, on August 25, of the elimination of the leader of terrorism in the country, the Mozambican Bonomade Machude Omar, together with other elements of the terrorist group’s leadership.

Bonomade Machude Omar, considered the leader of the radical group Islamic State in Mozambique, was targeted by the second phase of the Mozambican army’s so-called “Golpe Duro II” operation.

The extremist leader was described by several experts as “a symbiosis between brutality and vigilantism”, and appeared on the United States’ list of “global terrorists”. He was the target of European Union sanctions.

Cabo Delgado province has been facing armed insurgency for almost six years, with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.

The Mozambique Armed Defence Forces have been fighting terrorism in Cabo Delgado with support of Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) since July, 2021.

The attacks taking place since October, 2017, have hindered the advancement of natural gas production projects in the region.

The conflict in northern Mozambique has already displaced one million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and resulted in 4,000 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project, while the Mozambican president this week acknowledged “more than 2,000” fatalities.

READ: New attack in Mocímboa was expected after the shooting of terrorist leader – Minister

Source: Lusa