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Mozambique town remains traumatised weeks after deadly jihadist attack The jihadists swooped on the coastal town on March 24, killing dozens of people and triggering an exodus that included workers on a multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. 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 a thousa...

Mexico worries about scorn if another drug lord is released May 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this June 15, 2016 file photo provided by the Mexican Attorney Generals Office, Hector "El Guero" Palma, or “Blondie,” one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, is escorted in handcuffs from a helicopter at a federal hangar in Mexico City, after serving almost a decade in a U.S. prison and transported to another maximum-security lockup to await trial for two murders. (Mexicos Attorney Gen...

Nuevo corte de suministro del agua en la zona de Arquitecte Bennàssar por un segundo reventón de tuberías en menos de 24 horas, según ha explicado Emaya a los usuarios afectados. La interrupción del servicio ha dejado sin agua a los residentes de la zona durante todo el fin de semana, desde primera hora de la mañana hasta bien entrado el mediodía.

Artist goes back in time to paint Women of Faith portraits EUAN KERR, Minnesota Public Radio News Apr 30, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota artist Mark Balma is drawing on ancient techniques to create three huge frescoes for a church in Italy. He planned to do the work on site, but the pandemic intervened. As he faced a modern challenge, he turned to an approach developed more than 2,000 years ago. When the coronavirus halted international travel, a friend offered Balma ...

El historiador Manuel García analiza este enclave palmesano que nació en 1932 y que ahora espera una segunda vida.

"I have seen first-hand how the scale of the humanitarian response in no way matches the scale of the needs." writes Jonathan Wittall

Southern African countries may help Mozambique fight rebels ANDREW MELDRUM and TOM BOWKER, Associated Press April 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The 16-nation Southern African Development Community is considering a proposal to deploy more than 2,500 regional troops to help battle extremist rebels in northern Mozambique. The proposed military support to Mozambique will be considered on Thursday at a summit meeting of regional leaders in Mozambiques capital, Maputo. The regi...

Total declares force majeure at Mozambique LNG Apr 26, 2021 8:30:am Summary Insurgents launched a major attack on the nearby town of Palma just hours after Total said it was resuming construction at the project. by: Joseph Murphy Posted in: Frances Total has declared force majeure on its Mozambique LNG project following further attacks in gas-rich north Mozambique by Islamist insurgents. "Considering the evolution of the security situation in the north of the Cabo D...

President, ambassador and intelligence minister should resign 12 April 2021 - 21:04 Picture: SUPPLIED SAs ambassador to Maputo, Siphiwe Nyanda, said on state television that his government “definitely had no idea” the Islamist insurgency attack on the port town of Palma in Mozambique was coming. He just happened to be nearby at the time (yeah, right), and not his embassy 2,000km away. His tone was highly defensive. When a non-career diplomat puts up his own lack of knowl...

40,000 displaced in north Mozambique after assault on Palma ANDREW MELDRUM and TOM BOWKER, By Associated Press April 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8Displaced children attend a class in one of the educational centers set up by a local NGO in Pemba, Mozambique, after they fled attacks in Palma in Northern Mozambique, Monday April 19, 2021. The damage caused by Mozambiques extremist rebels in their deadly assault on the northeastern town of Palma continues to be assessed. More th...