Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has appointed Arsenia Felicidade Felix Massingue as the country’s first female interior minister and Cristóvão Artur Chume as national defence minister. The previous ministers in charge of defence and interior security were both sacked this week. Mr Chume is a major-general noted for commanding the forces …
Read More »Mozambique: villagers rescued after being abducted by Islamists
Southern African Development Community (SADC) troops rescued forty-seven people who had been kidnapped in northern Mozambique by Islamists. There was no confrontation between SADC troops and the Islamic State-linked militants, because the five hostage-takers fled when they realised the presence of the regional force, reports say. Read also: Cambridge to …
Read More »Mozambique: islamist militants abducted seven women
Islamist militants have kidnapped seven women from a village in the Mozambican northern province of Cabo Delgado, local media reports. Southern African troops launched a rescue mission but they were unable to find the captives. In a separate incident, the insurgents attacked a village in Mueda district, looting food and …
Read More »Paul Kagame visits Rwandan troops fighting in Mozambique
The Rwandan President Paul Kagame has visited the Rwandan troops which are backing the Mozambican forces to fight terrorists in the country. Paul Kagame has offered to keep Rwandan forces in Cabo Delgado if they’ll be needed as internally displaced people are resettled, BBC News reports. Rwandan forces have made …
Read More »Mozambique: UN warns against returning civilians to areas affected by attacks
The United Nations said it is concerned over people returning to the restive northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado as it is still unclear whether the ongoing military operation has reduced jihadist groups’ capacity to stage attacks there. The caution by the UN’s Department of Safety and Security comes at …
Read More »Mozambique: aid reaches Palma for the first time since attack
The city of Palma in northern Mozambique has now benefited from United Nations humanitarian aid since the massive attack on the coastal city in March by Islamist militants. More than 2,000 families received food packages in Palma in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, BBC News reports. Aid workers have struggled …
Read More »Mozambique: banking services restored in the north
The banking services which had been discontinued due to insecurity in the region and a lack of electricity supply, have been restored in the northern Mozambican town of Mueda in the restive Cabo Delgado province. Local media say civil servants living in the area used to travel to Montepuez, 220km …
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