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A Zimbabwean man who had been missing since March 24 — when Islamist insurgents launched an attack in northern Mozambique — has been found dead.

Overview On March 24, 2021, operatives of ISIS’s Central Africa Province (actually, these are operatives of the local Ansar al-Sunna organization that pledged allegiance to ISIS) [1] mounted a large-scale attack against Palma, a Mozambican coastal city with about 75,000 inhabitants, and took it over. The city is located in the Cabo Delgado Province, in northeastern Mozambique, the hub of the organization’s activity, near the largest natural gas field in Africa, where foreign companies are i...

Māori and Pasifika in tech: How paid internships work 11 Apr, 2021 08:00 PM 5 minutes to read Leroy Pohatus tech career started with a paid internship in high school. Photo / Jason Oxenham Leroy Pohatus tech career started with a paid internship in high school. Photo / Jason Oxenham Leroy Pohatus trade tools are a Macbook, a company phone and a PC toolkit. The 22-year-old field engineer looks after the IT of eight schools in Auckland, including his alma mater Tāmaki College. Kids at school of...

CBS News How one man died saving his father and brother from an ISIS siege in Mozambique Johannesburg - ISIS claimed responsibility for the bloody siege on a town in the east African nation of Mozambique last week that forced tens of thousands of people to flee the area, and left dozens dead. The assault lasted almost a week, with heavily armed insurgents violently taking control of the northern port town of Palma. Many foreign nationals working on natural gas projects in the region were killed...

Shock footage from Mozambique attacks emerges — shows devastation, bodies strewn in the street 06 April 2021 - 06:57 The government has said it is working to restore order in Palma. Image: 123RF/ZABELIN Unseen footage and pictures of the attack by Islamist militants on the northern Mozambique town of Palma give a glimpse of the full extent of the carnage. Images obtained by Sky News  show bodies strewn on the ground, signs of help made out of toilet paper and sheets ...

Mozambique: Military retakes Palma after jihadist attack Mozambiques military says it has regained full control over the coastal town of Palma. Jihadists from a group linked to the so-called Islamic State attacked it late last month. Thousands of displaced people are in desperate need of food and shelter. Watch video 02:09

Crowdfunding campaign for family of SA construction worker killed in Mozambique attack 06 April 2021 - 13:20 A trust fund has been set up to look after Adrian Nels wife and three children after he was killed during a recent attack in Mozambique. Image: via Facebook The mother of Durban construction worker Adrian Nel, who was killed in an attack in Mozambique two weeks ago, has started a crowdfunding campaign for his wife and three children. Nel was among a group that ma...

A watercolour sky The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the darkest and most peaceful astronomical sites on Earth — and has, as a result, proven to be the perfect location for ESO’s various observatories and powerful instruments.  This view shows ESO’s Paranal Observatory, home to the behemoth Very Large Telescope (VLT). The constituent telescopes of the VLT can be seen standing sentinel beneath a star-studded sky featuring the glittering arch of our Galaxy, and the glowing Magellanic Cl...

More than 670,000 people displaced due to conflict, says UNHCR - Anadolu Agency

Images of Islamist attack in Mozambique show severity of situation A series of photographs and videos, passed exclusively to Sky News, offer the first glimpse at the scale of the assault on the town of 52,000 people by the militants. People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than 1,000 people evacuated from the sh...