Is Mozambique sleepwalking into a terrorist nightmare? Facebook A terrorist insurgency which has claimed 3,000 lives and is threatening to upend the state has gone largely underreported and seems to be of little concern to the country’s neighbours or even the AU. This head-in-the-sand attitude could have disastrous outcomes for the region, warns Mushtak Parker. There is something surreal about the terrorist insurgency in the northern enclave of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique, seemingly perpetrated by militants “inspired” by the defunct ISIS. It would seem that the government of President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi is in denial of the threat, or simply downplaying it or is incapable of dealing with it.