Latest articles on Cabo Delgado

Baby Awa: The miracle baby born on a boat fleeing Mozambique’s violence

Africa Luis Nhachote - 26 Oct 2020

More than 300 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by militants who ransack villages and then burn them down.

The natural resource curse in Cabo Delgado

Africa Nation Nyoka - 21 Oct 2020

A humanitarian crisis looms as a violent insurgency continues to sweep over northern Mozambique. As many flee to safety, the question remains: who, or what, fuels the fire?

Isis is not driving the Cabo Delgado war

Africa Joseph Hanlon - 25 Aug 2020

Can Frelimo and its backers continue to profit from a failing state while an armed insurgency rages in northern Mozambique? And will South Africa help prop them up?

Mozambique needs an intervention – but SADC must not rush in blindly

Africa Jasmine Opperman - 26 Jul 2020

Military intervention in Cabo Delgado must be aimed at protecting people first

The pandemic has shifted patterns of conflict in Africa

Africa Clionadh Raleigh - 22 Jun 2020

Although the overall rate of conflict has remained steady in Africa during the past 10 weeks of the pandemic, the nature of this is changing in subtle but significant ways

Making sense of Mozambique’s brutal insurgency

Africa Paolo Israel - 4 May 2020

The violence in Cabo Delgado province by al-Shabaab (the youth) can be linked to jihadist influence, the continued marginalisation of Muslim people, and the lure of income from trafficking natural resources

The Covid-19 pandemic is a wildcard that will change politics as we know it

Article Simon Allison - 25 Mar 2020

The crisis is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for unscrupulous leaders to further their own interests — and they are already taking advantage

Press freedom group condemns attempted kidnapping of Mozambican editor

Africa Simon Allison - 14 Jan 2020

One of Mozambique’s most senior journalists escaped a kidnapping attempt in Maputo on New Year’s Eve. Matias Guente,...

Third time lucky for peace in Mozambique?

Africa Alex Vines - 7 Aug 2019

Renamo’s hardened fighters are not getting any younger, so this time the deal may stick

Aid agencies rush to bring aid to Mozambique cyclone survivors

Africa Gregory Walton - 30 Apr 2019

Cyclone Kenneth made landfall late Thursday in Cabo Delgado province, packing wind gusts of up to 220 kilometres per hour

Mozambique braces for violent floods after Cyclone Kenneth

Africa Gregory Walton - 29 Apr 2019

The first floods have already been seen in some parts of Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado province, as well as in surrounding areas

The faceless insurgency in Mozambique that no one can explain

Africa Simon Allison - 25 Apr 2019

'I have never come across something like this before'

Rights violated ahead of poll in Mozambique

Article David Matsinhe - 22 Feb 2019

The lead-up to the election has been characterised by disturbing developments in Cabo Delgado province in the north

Africa is being colonised all over again

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Jan 2019

'We have failed to hold our African leaders to account,' writes Mustafa Bothwell Mheta

Mozambique shaken after string of mysterious murders, crime spree

Africa Deutsche Welle 1 - 22 Oct 2018

Since October 2017, the country's Cabo Delgado province has been plagued by a series of anonymous attacks that have left 90 people dead

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