Africa-Press – Mozambique. The administrator of the Chiure district, in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, has stated that defence forces repelled the rebels who attacked two localities on Thursday morning, and that the district headquarters remained secure.
“The Mozambican Defence Forces have repelled the terrorists, and the district is now secure,” Chiúre district administrator Oliveira Amimo told the media.
Residents of two towns in the Chiúre district of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, reported new attacks by alleged insurgent groups to Lusa today, prompting the population to seek safety elsewhere.
“This situation calls for immediate attention, the terrorists are attacking,” a source speaking from the town of Chiúre told Lusa after fleeing on foot following the alleged attacks on Chiúre Velho and Mazeze villages.
According to the administrator, the insurgents during the attacks burned homes and the local police headquarters, while the district headquarters in Chiúre remained secure.
“Practically all [the villages] felt the impact. We are talking about hundreds of families,” said the administrator.
Located about 140 kilometres from the provincial capital of Pemba, Chiúre is one of the districts that the rebels have targeted.
Gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, in the north of the country, has been facing an armed rebellion since 2017, which has left thousands dead and caused a humanitarian crisis with more than a million people displaced.
The new movements of extremists in northern Mozambique include Niassa, a province neighbouring Cabo Delgado, where, since the outbreak of the rebellion on 29 April, they have caused at least two deaths, the extremists beheading two forest rangers.
In 2024 alone, at least 349 people died in attacks by Islamic extremist groups in northern Mozambique, an increase of 36% over the previous year, according to a study released by the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies (ACSS), an academic institution of the US Department of Defence.
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