In a year defined by Covid-19, human rights violations, including massacres of civilians and crackdowns on opposition parties, have plagued these regions
More than 300 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by militants who ransack villages and then burn them down.
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?
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?
Military intervention in Cabo Delgado must be aimed at protecting people first
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
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 crisis is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for unscrupulous leaders to further their own interests — and they are already taking advantage
One of Mozambique’s most senior journalists escaped a kidnapping attempt in Maputo on New Year’s Eve. Matias Guente, the executive editor of Canal de Moçambique, was accosted in the afternoon of December 31 by three men while in the capital’s Alto Maé area, right behind the headquarters of the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces. The men […]
Renamo’s hardened fighters are not getting any younger, so this time the deal may stick
Cyclone Kenneth made landfall late Thursday in Cabo Delgado province, packing wind gusts of up to 220 kilometres per hour
The first floods have already been seen in some parts of Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado province, as well as in surrounding areas
‘I have never come across something like this before’
The lead-up to the election has been characterised by disturbing developments in Cabo Delgado province in the north
‘We have failed to hold our African leaders to account,’ writes Mustafa Bothwell Mheta
Since October 2017, the country’s Cabo Delgado province has been plagued by a series of anonymous attacks that have left 90 people dead
Renamo, the main opposition party is running in the municipal vote for the first time in 10 years
Armed militants are burning villages and beheading civilians in northern Mozambique — and no one knows who they are, or what they want
A guerrilla movement in Mozambique could upend the government’s plans for stability and prosperity