{"id":2747,"date":"2022-01-31T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org\/news\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:12:03","slug":"war-follows-those-who-fled-into-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/war-follows-those-who-fled-into-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"War follows those who fled into the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2748\" style=\"width: 1696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2748\" class=\"wp-image-2748 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cjimoz.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1686\" height=\"1240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Kyle Steckler\/Released)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With regional forces retaking Cabo Delgado, insurgents turn their attention inland<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luis Nhachote<\/p>\n<p>The insurgency in Mozambique\u2019s northern province of Cabo Delgado has shifted west, with communities attacked and thousands displaced as forces from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community, or SADC, continue the operations they began last year.<br \/>\nFollowing the recapture of Mocimboa da Praia, with its strategic harbour and airport, soldiers have worked to secure<br \/>\nareas that are critical to gas exploitation \u2013 by and large along the eastern coastal area.<br \/>\nUnder that pressure, insurgents began focusing their raids further west, across the provincial border and into the district of Mecula, which itself borders Tanzania at the Ruvuma River.<br \/>\nLocal sources tell The Continent that insurgents attacked the community of Naulala just before Christmas. They<br \/>\nlooted the local health post, taking medicines and medical equipment, robbing stalls and looting food products.<br \/>\nThe local chief \u2019s home was burned down. Another attack was reported nearby on 27 December, in which five residents were killed. The governor of the province told The Continent last week however that \u201cthe current situation is calm\u201d.<br \/>\nAbout four thousand people have been displaced by such attacks, adding to the six thousand people already displaced in the province \u2013 a third of whom had themselves arrived from Cabo Delgado, then in the throes of the initial insurgency.<br \/>\nThis month, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, renewed their<br \/>\nagreement for Rwandan troops to stay in Cabo Delgado, with no details about when they will leave provided. The deployment started at a thousand soldiers and police and has since doubled. SADC\u2019s mission has also had its mandate extended for another three months.<br \/>\nAdriano Nuvunga, head of the Maputo-based <a href=\"https:\/\/cddmoz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Democracy and Development<\/a>, said Mozambique\u2019s SADC neighbours have an important role to play. He said it is \u201calso a way of pre-empting, right at the beginning, the potential regional impact\u201d of the insurgency. \u25a0<\/p>\n<p>This article was original published by <a href=\"https:\/\/media.mg.co.za\/wp-media\/2022\/01\/830eb4e2-thecontinentissue73.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Continent<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With regional forces retaking Cabo Delgado, insurgents turn their attention inland &nbsp; Luis Nhachote The insurgency in Mozambique\u2019s northern province of Cabo Delgado has shifted west, with communities attacked and thousands displaced as forces from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community, or SADC, continue the operations they began last year. Following the recapture [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[266],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg",1686,1240,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg",1686,1240,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg",1686,1240,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac-250x184.jpg",150,110,true],"medium":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac-400x294.jpg",300,221,true],"large":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac-650x478.jpg",650,478,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg",1536,1130,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg",1686,1240,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg",16,12,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac-150x110.jpg",150,110,true],"retina2x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac-800x588.jpg",800,588,true],"retina3x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac-1200x883.jpg",1200,883,true],"retina4x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac-1600x1177.jpg",1600,1177,true],"retina5x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg",1686,1240,false],"retina6x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mozambique-defence-armed-forces-ac.jpg",1686,1240,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Reda\u00e7\u00e3o CJIMOZ","author_link":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/author\/hcuambe\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/category\/sociedade\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sociedade<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"&nbsp; With regional forces retaking Cabo Delgado, insurgents turn their attention inland &nbsp; Luis Nhachote The insurgency in Mozambique\u2019s northern province of Cabo Delgado has shifted west, with communities attacked and thousands displaced as forces from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community, or SADC, continue the operations they began last year. Following the recapture&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}