Escaping the 'land of fear': Crisis in Mozambique as half a million people flee Islamist insurgency

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You can see the boats sail into Pakaquiteta beach every morning, carrying people and possessions from an area in Mozambique that is known as "the land of fear".

More than half a million people have fled from northern parts of the country's most northerly province, Cabo Delgado, and thousands of evacuees have sought sanctuary on this scruffy-looking beach, located in the heart of the region's biggest city, Pemba.

The conflict began in late 2017 and has cost the lives of at least 2,500 people - but it has gone largely unnoticed in the rest of the world.

The consequences are impossible to miss in a spot like Pakaquiteta, however. Families have erected tents and lean-to structures in the middle of the beach and they beg for food from passers-by.

"How long can you go on living like this?" I asked an evacuee, called Zena Dade, who has been living on the beach for the past nine months.

"We don't know how we are going to get out of this situation. We haven't had any help," she replies.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/escaping-the-land-of-fear-crisis-in-mozambique-as-half-a-million-people-flee-islamist-insurgency/ar-BB1dqR1b?ocid=ACERDHP17&li=BBoPWjQ.....

People that supposed to talk about it are profiting from the war

Religion Again?

helinues:
People that supposed to talk about it are profiting from the war

You'd claim the one happening in your country is a fake news but have your voice loud on the same islamic terrorism in Mozambique.....



Do you have conscience at all?


Or you're just doing this to be a nairaland celebrity? I don't get!!

Now the question is why are countries like Turkey, Iran, Iraq and even Saudi Arabia not talking to condemn this? If this attack was against an Islamic nation they would have filled the whole news Channels like Aljazeera in condemning it.

Why are these people hypocrites?

It will not be wrong to think that they are the ones sponsoring these attacks.

yanabasee1:



You'd claim the one happening in your country is a fake news but have your voice loud on the same islamic terrorism in Mozambique.....



Do you have conscience at all?


Or you're just doing this to be a nairaland celebrity? I don't get!!

This is incoherent..

...a word for those attacking ESN or whatever it is called, eg, OyiboUpdate....Who would help you if such groups come to your region to attack you?

The government....

...you need to be wise as you can see those guys in the region are on their own.

Its so bad that news like this have become regular occurence that peoole are use to

Just analyse the Islamic and Fulani influence.

helinues:


This is incoherent..

To you? or to the well meaning Nigerians that you are helping the government to destroy their lives indirectly?

escavros:
Religion Again?

Religion is a scam.The fight is to control land and the resources underneath.Religion is just a smokescreen

Let them pick arms and fight back

Maybe their elites have realized that a lot of money can be made through insurgency like their Nigerian counterparts.

ISIS targets countries that are politically fragile to extend their caliphate. Unfortunately, the Portuguese are too broke to lend a helping hand to its former colony.
ISCAP, ISWAP have on thing in common. The political climate in countries they thrive is weak and thereby fertile for their plan.
Kenya is nextdoor neighbors to Al-Shabaab but they won't bother waste resources invading Kenya with their ideology because the politics there isn't in shambles.