Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican authorities, in the town of Mocímboa da Praia, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, have warned fishermen to avoid putting to sea at night for safety reasons, taking into account that the region has been plagued by extreme violence carried out by islamist terrorists.
According to Tuesday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Carta de Moçambique”, citing local sources, fishing at night, which is locally called “malhação”, has been prohibited as a result of the movement of terrorists on some islands since last Monday.
“We’ve been told that the terrorists are on two or three boats on Nhonge Island, it’s not known what they’re doing, but we’ve been told by the Navy not to go fishing at night and so we’re here”, said one fisherman.
“It’s true, we didn’t go fishing to avoid being mistaken for terrorists. A navy corporal told us that no boat should go out fishing, and we didn’t go”, said another source.
According to other sources, the information about the ban on fishing at night actually came from the authorities “and they told us that these terrorists went from the Nsangue side and then to the Tambuzi and Quifuque islands.”
The sources pointed out that after the Mozambican Defence and Security Forces (FDS) became aware of the terrorists’ movements, several units were deployed to strategic locations to ‘hunt down’ the enemy, who apparently were unable to move from one of the islands to the mainland.
But by the end of Tuesday, no clashes had been reported between the terrorist group and the FDS.
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