{"id":27338,"date":"2022-10-05T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/five-years-on-fear-prevails-among-cabo-delgado-displaced"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:48:50","slug":"five-years-on-fear-prevails-among-cabo-delgado-displaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/five-years-on-fear-prevails-among-cabo-delgado-displaced","title":{"rendered":"Five years on, fear prevails among Cabo Delgado displaced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>In Metuge, the traumas of those who fled the barbarism of the rebels terrorising the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado five years ago are still fresh and, despite efforts to restore stability, fear prevails in that community.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, the terrorist is everywhere,\u201d Abdul Arlindo, deputy head of the Metuge reception centre, one of the main places hosting displaced people, laments to Lusa.<\/p>\n

A fear that persists, a perception that contrasts with the growing confidence of the authorities, who highlight never again having had large-scale attacks like the one in Palma in March 2021, and who highlight the external support that has reinforced the troops.<\/p>\n

The authorities consider the structure of the insurgency to have been overcome and call for \u201cvigilance\u201d towards the remaining rebel groups, which are dispersed and on the run, attacking villages they pass through in the rest of the province \u2013 leaving their mark, evident in Abdul\u2019s laments.<\/p>\n

On 5 October it will be five years since the first attack, against police units in Moc\u00edmboa da Praia.<\/p>\n

It was the beginning of a conflict that would spread throughout the province and that in 2021 would end up suspending the gas projects on which the country largely depends to revive the economy.<\/p>\n

Five years of cruelty are etched on the faces and memories of thousands of displaced people in Metuge, a village on the edge of the bay of Pemba, the provincial capital, which is on the opposite side, 10 kilometres away by boat, or 40 kilometres by road.<\/p>\n

Abdul Arlindo, 35 years old, is among the more than 30,000 people who have sought refuge there because of the armed incursions, in poverty, forced to live dependent on support.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur life boils down to waiting for support,\u201d Bibiana Sim\u00e3o, 44, tells Lusa, who says she has never lost the will to return to her region of origin, in Quissanga district, from where she fled in 2020.<\/p>\n

The authorities say that the residents of Palma and Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, the most important locations near the gas projects, can return and that public services are being restored.<\/p>\n

However, at the same time, the reconquest has reoriented the movement of the rebels: since June they have intensified attacks in the south of Cabo Delgado province, closer to Metuge, and in neighbouring Nampula province.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have not yet directly entered the headquarters of Metuge\u201d, but they are the main suspects of violent killings in surrounding land over the past few months.<\/p>\n

Fear is spreading across land where the people have their agricultural fields.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are tired of the terrorists,\u201d Ricardo Mendes,43, another displaced person welcomed in Metuge, told Lusa.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is getting better, but with difficulties,\u201d he says, acknowledging the work of the troops on the ground.<\/p>\n

But with the report of new attacks, fear has increased again, bringing to light the traumas of those who witnessed the cruellest form of insurgency in northern Mozambique.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems they are getting closer and closer to here,\u201d Ricardo Mendes laments.<\/p>\n

The fear of new attacks and the hunger that affects most of the families hosted in Metuge reinforce in many the desire to return home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our community, we used to vary our diet, here we eat the same thing every day, rice and beans\u201d, complains Gra\u00e7a Jo\u00e3o, another displaced person.<\/p>\n

For over a year, the United Nations has been warning of serious underfunding of its agencies in Cabo Delgado, forcing them to ration food and other aid so that it lasts longer.<\/p>\n

The coastal district has been, along with Pemba, one of the most burdened with displaced people seeking safety during the five-year insurgency.<\/p>\n

There are about 800,000 internally displaced people due to the conflict, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and 4000 deaths, according to the conflict registration project, ACLED.<\/p>\n

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