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7 January 2021 9:21 GMT Updated  8 January 2021 15:18 GMT in  London OPINION: Total’s decision to pull workers from its liquefied natural gas site in northern Mozambique due to the manifest threat posed by Islamist insurgents comes as little surprise to watchers of this East African country. The home-grown insurgency in Cabo Delgado province hit the headlines in late 2017, although President Filipe Nyusi says the signs of budding militancy existed many years before. Most politic...

12:24 AM MYT MAPUTO, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Mozambique authorities have begun to issue identification cards to more than 500,000 internally displaced people in the northern region of the country, national radio station RM reported on Wednesday. Technicians from the countrys National Civil Identification Service have already begun working in the accommodation centers in the districts of Metugi and Pemba, the northern province of Cabo Delgado, the report quoted the institutions director Alberto...

2021-01-06 16:36:27 GMT2021-01-07 00:36:27(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MAPUTO, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Mozambique authorities have begun to issue identification cards to more than 500,000 internally displaced people in the northern region of the country, national radio station RM reported on Wednesday. Technicians from the countrys National Civil Identification Service have already begun working in the accommodation centers in the districts of Metugi and Pemba, the northern province of Cabo ...

Date of Incident: 01 JANUARY 2021 Time of Incident: 22:00 Location of Incident: Quitupe Village, Afungi Peninsula, Palma District Proximity to Pemba – 230km At 22:00 on the evening of 01 December 2021, in the village of Quitupo inside the DUAT (close to the Airport), a brief exchange of fire between members of the Joint Task Force (JTF) and 2 x insurgents that were hiding in one of the houses, occurred. This was the result of information of the possible presence of the insurgents in one of th...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been puzzling to many public health experts because Africa has reported far fewer cases and deaths from COVID-19 than predicted. As of 22 November 2020, the continent of Africa, comprising 1.3 billion people, had recorded 2,070,953 cases of COVID-19 and 49,728 deaths ( 1), representing ∼3.6% of total global cases ( 3). Because of the continents overstrained and weak health systems, inadequate financing of health care, paucity in human resources, and challenges posed ...

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Views: Visits 56 Cyclone Chalane is moving west across the Mozambique Channel and is expected to reach Beira tomorrow morning (Wednesday 30 Dec) with winds up to 100 km/h, as the cyclone picks up heat and energy from the warm Mozambique Channel.  It is predicted to continue west into Zimbabwe Wednesday afternoon. The cyclone comes just 9 months after the devastating cyclone Idai. Chalane should be less damaging, but still with strong winds and heavy rain. Chalane crossed Madagascar Fr...

Trying to survive a three-year nightmare in Mozambique Format Voices from the Field Caroline Gaudron is the strategic support manager for MSF in Mozambique, focusing on the conflict in Cabo Delgado province. Here she describes the chaos and challenges for people trying to survive, having fled extreme violence in the province. Every day, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams see hundreds, some days thousands, of desperate yet determined people arrive by boat, by truck and by foot at Pemba, the ...

Residents gather around sacks of charcoal on December 11, 2020 at the beach in the community of Paquitequete, a place where thousands of displaced people have arrived in recent months, fleeing attacks by armed insurgents in different areas of the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique. (Photo by Alfredo Zuniga / AFP) The population has soared in Pemba, a northern Mozambique port known for its wide bay, but rather than tourists coming for a swim, the newcomers have fled Islamic extremi...

Terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, intensify. The latest records account for at least half a million displaced persons. To try to respond to the situation, the United Nations is launching a new humanitarian plan to raise approximately 208 million euros. "The biggest challenge is that in the last few months the situation of insecurity has increased a lot, and is causing an extreme increase in displacement. We have gone from 90,000 displaced people in early 2020 to more than ...