Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Nacala, 09 October, 2022 \/ 5:21 pm (ACI Africa).<\/p>\nThe people of God in Cabo Delgado and other Provinces in the North of Mozambique are experiencing \u201ca new style of warfare\u201d amid terrorist attacks, a Catholic Bishop has said.<\/p>\n
In an interview with ACI Africa, the Local Ordinary of Mozambique\u2019s Nacala Diocese spoke about the situation in Cabo Delgado Province that is under his Episcopal See and appealed for support for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are fleeing the violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are seeing a new style of warfare, a type of guerrilla warfare, not an ordinary war,\u201d Bishop Alberto Vera Are\u0301jula told ACI Africa during the October 6 interview, and explained, \u201cGuerrilla warfare is more difficult to control, because a group of six or eight can do a lot of harm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bishop Are\u0301jula added, \u201cThe terrorists are targeting institutional buildings; they have burned and destroyed schools, health centres, police stations, banks, administrative offices; anything that is institutional they burn and destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Spanish-born member of the Order of Our Lady of Mercy (Mercedarians) further said the September 6 attack that claimed the lives Sr. Maria De Coppi of the Comboni Missionary Sisters (CMS) and 11 other people left a \u201ctrail of destruction, bloodshed and instilled fear\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe consequences of these attacks are quite serious; people are traumatized; some have witnessed brutal killings of loved ones, and their homes being burned and destroyed. It has created fear, confusion, and instability,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n
The 65-year-old Bishop who started his Episcopal Ministry in May 2015 as Auxiliary Bishop of Mozambique\u2019s Xai-Xai Diocese spoke about the identity of those behind the attacks.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cAbout 20 insurgents made up of mainly young people, youth, probably from Cabo Delgado are responsible for the attacks, and they keep on recruiting young people as they move from one place to another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMothers and their children have fled to safer areas, whilst the men hide in the bush during the night and during the day; they look after the houses and of what is left,\u201d Bishop Are\u0301jula added during the October 6 interview.<\/p>\n
He said that the situation in Nacala Diocese is relatively calm as the \u201cthe army has succeeded in building a barrier between Chipene and Memba districts in a bid to stop the insurgents from gaining access to Nacala harbor, the deepest natural port on the East coast of Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be painful and a complete failure by the government if the insurgents were to gain access to Nacala port,\u201d the Catholic Bishop warned, adding that the port is \u201ca very valuable asset for all of Northern Mozambique in a commercial and social sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Local Ordinary of Nacala Diocese who doubles as the Liaison Bishop of Caritas Mozambique reiterated calls by the Bishop of Mozambique\u2019s Pemba Diocese, Bishop Anto\u0301nio Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo, for humanitarian assistance as \u201c hunger and malnutrition is escalating.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is that right now the number of IDPs has increased. Now we are no longer talking about 900,000 displaced people; it\u2019s more than that. It\u2019s been almost two years now that the displaced have lived in inhumane conditions; sometimes they go days without food,\u201d Bishop Are\u0301jula said about the situation in the Northern Provinces of Mozambique.<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cThe IDPs need housing, a place to work. Living in camps for such prolonged time aggregates social issues, issues of power, abuse, child prostitution in order to feed themselves and other types of problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people of Cabo Delgado in particular, are suffering from hunger; they don\u2019t have access to primary necessities like water, or access to health care; they are prone to diseases caused by the lack of hygiene,\u201d Bishop Are\u0301jula who was appointed Local Ordinary of Nacala in April 2018 told ACI Africa.<\/p>\n
The Mercedarian Bishop called on world leaders to \u201cremember the suffering\u201d in the Northern Provinces of Mozambique, saying, \u201cThe world is impoverished; Europe is at war; the war in Ukraine has shifted attention from other countries in need of humanitarian assistance. The suffering IDPs are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a call for help; we need to secure a future for our young people in Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and Niassa so that they are not tempted by small amounts of money to join the terrorists,\u201d Bishop Are\u0301jula further appealed during the October 6 interview.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cThe most serious problem is that those behind this cruel terrorism that we are experiencing do not yet have a face.\u201d<\/p>\n
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