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The fundamentalist group al-Shabab attacked a town in the Macomia district of northern Mozambique on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks in an area that has become notoriously dangerous.
A government commission recently visited the affected province of Cabo Delgado, but did not go anywhere near the hot spots. Journalists are struggling to gain access to areas where the fighting began in October 2017 and are said to have killed 1,400 people and displaced 250,000 residents in a population of 30 million.
On Tuesday around 5pm, insurgents attacked the village of Oluma at the Mucojo administrative post, about 18 kilometers from the Macomia district headquarters, a local source said.
“The villages were on fire. This is bad, ”said one resident who did not want to be identified.
Attacks in the north The Cabo Delgado province has intensified over the past month, with rebels reportedly taking control of a key port in northern Mozambique, Mocimboa da Praia.
It is in the heart of the country’s vast offshore gas fields, where $ 60 billion (approximately R1-trillion) in projects is at risk.
