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Mozambique's Islamist insurgency: UN warns of rising violence in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique's Islamist insurgency: UN warns of rising violence in Cabo Delgado
The number of civilians forced from their homes by conflict in northern Mozambique has quadrupled this year - to 420,000 - according to
the United Nations.
It links the crisis in Cabo Delgado province not just to attacks by Islamist militants, but to a perceived failure to distribute vast mineral
and off-shore gas revenues to the local population.
A senior UN refugee agency official visiting Cabo Delgado described the situation there as "really dire" and urged Mozambique's
neighbours and the wider international community to intervene in what she said had been, for too long, an "invisible" crisis.
"The figures are growing as days go by and this is a situation that is liable to deteriorate," said Angèle Dikongué-Atangana, the UNHCR's
deputy director of Southern Africa, speaking to the BBC from Cabo Delgado's provincial capital, Pemba.
Ms Dikongué-Atangana warned that the "terrorist" situation in Mozambique was beginning to resemble the long-running conflict in northern
Nigeria, where the Islamist Boko Haram group has caused widespread suffering.
But as well as blaming militants affiliated to the Islamic State group who have carried out massacres and other atrocities in Cabo Delgado,
Ms Dikongué-Atangana criticised the behaviour of "extractive firms" involved in gem mines and, more recently, in vast off-shore gas fields.
'No hope, no dreams'
"If I was [born] in a place like this, which is endowed with a lot of wealth, and I see that wealth is being exploited, and I don't see…
a share of that wealth, I would also be disgruntled," she said, warning that a generation of young Mozambicans with "no hope, no dreams,"
might join the insurgency thinking: "If I fight, maybe I will die honourably. If I don't fight, maybe I will still die".
In recent months, the small port city of Pemba has been overwhelmed, its population almost doubling, as tens of thousands of people have
arrived by foot or on boats, fleeing from a complex and brutal insurgency that has growing relentlessly over the past three years.
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