New attack in southern Cabo Delgado causes three deaths
Lusa - Mozambique - 27/06/2022
Mozambique approves tough anti-terror bill
AFP - Mozambique - 20/05/2022
Mozambique’s parliament on Thursday approved a tough new anti-terror law that imposes stiff prison sentences for convicted jihadists, but also for anyone spreading misinformation about the country’s insurgency.
The measures calling for up to 24 years in prison…
Portugal: EU mission flies to Mozambique in response to violence in Cabo Delgado
Lusa - Portugal - 19/01/2021
The head of Portuguese diplomacy, Augusto Santos Silva, is flying to Mozambique on Tuesday as part of an EU mission in response to Maputo’s request for cooperation in the face of armed violence in Cabo Delgado.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs will travel to Maputo…
Portugal must support Mozambique “as it did with Timor”
TSF - Portugal - 16/12/2020
Social-Democratic deputy António Maló de Abreu was in the Mozambican area of Cabo Delgado, which is being the scene of the terrorist threat. He argues that Portugal has to do more and that it can intercede for the “brother country” internationally.
António…
Portugal to train elite Mozambican troops to fight terrorists in Cabo Delgado
Plataforma - Portugal - 11/12/2020
Military cooperation with Mozambique was reinforced with the visit of the Portuguese Defense Minister to the country, which ended today. Gomes Cravinho assured his counterpart that Portugal will train Mozambican rapid intervention forces, already in early 2021
The two…
Mozambique hires private military support from South Africa
Lusa - Mozambique - 10/12/2020
Mozambique’sPresident Filipe Nyusi has ordered the hiring of South African defence companies Paramount and Dyck Advisory Group to provide ground and air military support in the fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado province, Africa Intelligence reported…
Cabo Delgado: Displaced people ask for weapons to fight terrorists
Plataforma - Macau - 10/12/2020
During Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho Rosário’s two-day visit to the resettlement centers in the Ancuabe and Metuge districts in Cabo Delgado, the politician was faced with a request from the displaced people.
Those displaced from the Cabo Delgado conflict asked…
Cabo Delgado: Insurgents are affiliated with Islamic State, US guarantees
Plataforma - Macau - 09/12/2020
Americans say Islamic militants are gaining ground.
The terrorist group operating in northern Mozambique is an affiliate of the Islamic State and should be seen as a global terrorism issue, said US counterterrorism coordinator Nathan Sales, who has promoted North American…
Defense Minister visits Mozambique between Wednesday and Friday
TSF - Portugal - 07/12/2020
João Gomes Cravinho will be in Mozambique, at the invitation of his counterpart Jaime Bessa Neto, with whom he will meet in the capital, Maputo, on the first day of the “work visit”.
Defense Minister Gomes Cravinho will meet on Wednesday in Maputo with his Mozambican…
Cabo Delgado: Border weaknesses allow entry of weapons that fuel terrorism
Plataforma - Macau - 07/12/2020
The Minister of National Defense, Jaime Neto, considered the weaknesses on national borders as a gap in the fight against terrorists in Cabo Delgado. The minister spoke this Sunday, at the extraordinary summit of the African Union, and argued that issues of peace deserve…
Exclusive Platforma: In Cabo Delgado “there is no dialogue with the terrorists”
Plataforma - Macau - 03/12/2020
The Governor of Cabo Delgado, Valige Tauabo, assumes, in an interview with Plataforma, that the situation in the northern Mozambique province has been getting worse.
In recent months, “vile actions by terrorists” have caused an increase in the number of displaced…
