As the conflict rages on, ordinary Mozambicans suffer w...
weekly newspaper. Six months since their first seizure of the port town, fighters of Ahlu Sunna wa Jama (ASWJ, aka Islamic State, Central Africa Province), still occupy Mocimboa da Praia in Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado. And, after a lull of several weeks, caused by floods and some improvements in the fighting capacity of the Mozambique forces, the insurgents seem to be on the march again, evidently resupplied with small arms by dhow from Yemen and Somalia. There are reports of renewed fighting on the western fringes of Mocimboa da Praia district. On 16 February th...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za