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We don't even know what to do. Oh my God. These are violent attacks recorded in Africa in the first six months of 2021, some of which are records of groups that fought in civil wars such as Ethiopia, and others are from South Sudan even after the Government of Sudan and rebels sign peace agreement.

and others are riots against the government like what happened recently in South Africa, but these other attacks are different. These are attacks by some militant groups claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic state, while others claim to be al-qaeda, both groups are generally associated with the Middle East, but in the last decade, Islamic militant groups have spread across Africa. And Mozambique is currently the newest stage for these terrorist attacks.

Hello, Rui Júnior here, to understand why and how these terrorist groups arrived in Mozambique and why they are so successful, let's start with some context. Mozambique has several natural resources northern Mozambique has one of the largest ruby ​​deposits in the country. world, tourmalines, graphite, uranium are found.

Mozambique has everything to work out and has a great potential to become one of Africa's largest economies in the next 15 years due to discovery of gas in the country. But. although Mozambique has all this potential and has started a series of economic reforms, these reforms were less and less associated with decentralization reforms.

Let's see, the transfers of large Mozambican companies and industries are concentrated mainly in the south, to be specific in Maputo, while the north of the country that produces much of the goods and services are poor, marginalized, isolated and home to most of the Muslim population of Mozambique. This is due to the lack of decentralization because the industries of processing, the largest investment in the country and natural resources are concentrated in the north. And it was here in this northern region that in 2017 it suffered its first terrorist attack Until October 5, 2017 the province of Cabo Delgado lived in tranquility, at least apparently, and Mocímboa da praia was once a place of peace and tranquility, But since that date everything changed when around 30 unknown armed men attacked three posts of the Mocímboa da Praia district police, killing five people, including police, and injuring more than ten.

At the time, the police said they were investigating the case. About a month later, on November 17, the authorities gave the closure order for some mosques suspected to have been frequented by members of the armed group. For their part, the police denied the involvement of the terrorist group Al-Shabaab in these attacks.

So that's how in Cabo Delegado a radical Islamic group took shape and became turned violent. In 2018 there was a total of 10 terrorist attacks Where over 164 houses were destroyed and hundreds of people were murdered At the end of 2018, the Minister of Defense, Athanásio Mtumuke stated the following. open quotes the armed men responsible for the attacks are young expelled from home by parents are unknown elements .

And these attacks did not threaten the peace. No threat, no threat to peace. Since 2018 numerous attacks have been made the population and it was not the first time that these terrorist attacks happened, because a crisis unfolded when local insurgents who swore allegiance to the Islamic state and with successfully executed the largest land grab.

and in return the defense minister stated which quotes the population normally circulated where the terrorists carried out these attacks the populations of Cabo Delgado, particularly in areas where criminals commit crimes heinous people circulate normally and their goods as well. The problem of war arrived here. There was no food we left on foot from there to the plateau zone In years of attacks it created one of the most serious humanitarian crises, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced The number of displaced due to the armed conflict in Cabo Delgado is 670 thousand people and 950,000 people face severe hunger.

These attacks were escalating along of time it was possible to predict that a new attack could arise at any time and for this the armed response by government troops should be prepared. But were they? You have control of the village of Palm?

Yes, everything is in control. The armed forces have been tested again in March 2021 the insurgents were attacking Palma. Palma is located here is the site of the largest foreign direct investment in Africa a gas project natural liquefied where the main investor is Total, a French oil and gas company.

The project is hailed as a massive new source of revenue that could transform the country. On March 24, insurgents blockaded the city ​​of Palma entering the coast and roads which would also block military reinforcement. There is information that there were 700 soldiers on the premises of the total who did not move.

to the city to confront the insurgents. The Islamic state released these images later from attacks where they destroyed banks, homes, businesses, stores, military and police bases. At roads were blocked, thousands of people ran into the bush, and the only way to help is rescue could only be by sea or air, three government helicopters were sent to 136 km away to the airstrip of the natural gas site , but unfortunately they are unable to because the insurgents had long- range heavy weapons capable of bringing down helicopters and even some of those helicopters came back in flames.

And some people fled to a local hotel the Amarula hotel, people were desperate most of the guests from this hotel were foreigners and were also awaiting any ransom. But with the routes blocked and still with no sign of rescue there was no plan. However, the manager and Hotel owner contacted the private company that the hotel often rented to tourist excursions in this way 20 people managed to escape from the hotel amarula and the manager left dozens of people behind, and there were two passenger seats but the owner refused to take two people because he would take his two dogs, and the people who they were left because they didn't know when help would arrive they started to make an evacuation plan using vehicles from the hotel parking lot intending to drive out of town, The terrestrial escape it was still risky but it was the only option along the roads several of the vehicles were ambushed, only a few managed to reach a camp safely.

with blocked access road thousands of people were forced to flee because of own and fled on foot through the woods towards other towns and villages, and other people did queues at the premises of the natural gas company managed by Total. However total decided organize a rescue mainly for their own team of collaborators and rented a ferry that rescued 3,000 people on the first day, most of them employees and on the second rescue managed to rescue the local population. Currently thousands of people are away from home, hungry and traumatized.

I got tired all the time crossing with evildoers that's not okay. A lot of death brother. The insurgents are known locally like Al shabaab Al shabaab recruitment is mostly local and attracts people who living in areas of extreme poverty, the group swears allegiance to the Islamic state but how close these ties are really debatable.

These groups massacre men and women and kidnap children and even force them to carry out suicide attacks. Mozambican government cracked down, but the group continued to grow and that's how these attacks drew international attention. Real quick folks, this video just went made possible by channel members and Epidemic Sound who is the sponsor of today's video.

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However, SADC troops have recently deployed to Mozambican territory and since then it has managed to recover areas that were previously occupied by the terrorists and Rwandan troops along with the armed forces of Mozambique have been working strongly however the question that remains is when the SADC troops withdraw from the national territory and when Rwandan forces withdraw from that territory in Mozambique the what will happen? will we not see terrorist attacks again since the forces armadas have already been tested by terrorists. .

. no one knows only the future can tell us. This area quickly needs to find alternatives for local populations and especially young people so that they are not easily recruited.