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Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambique\u2019s Cabo Delgado province has become \u201cemblematic of Daesh\u2019s influence in Africa\u201d and requires priority in the regional counter-terrorism approach, the United Nations Secretary-General considers in a report under consultation in the Security Council on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis followed the brief occupation of Palma by an affiliated group near a large gas project led by a multinational company in northern Mozambique,\u201d the report on Islamic State (IS) activities reads.<\/p>\n

The document adds that \u201cthe local authorities failed to defend the town and provide security, as was also the case in Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, further south in Cabo Delgado, which has been occupied by Daesh affiliates since August 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report by UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres was completed on 27 July and was presented at the Security Council on Thursday by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office, Vladimir Voronkov.<\/p>\n

According to Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, developments in Mozambique may have \u201cfar-reaching\u201d consequences on regional peace and security and must be \u201caddressed through a coherent regional approach as a matter of priority\u201d.<\/p>\n

For the UN, which had several entities involved in the authorship of this semi-annual report on IS activities, the deterioration of the security situation in Cabo Delgado province was \u201cone of the most worrying events of early 2021\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe local Daesh affiliate group [Al-Shabab] briefly invaded and detained a strategic port near the border with Tanzania, before withdrawing with spoils\u201d.<\/p>\n

The UN states that Cabo Delgado province, being a \u201cdestination for economic migrants\u201d and an entry point for drugs from Asia, in a region that \u201chosts numerous trafficking activities\u201d, is an \u201ceasy transit area for Daesh fighters\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Mozambican branch of Daesh benefits from the shadow economy. Members live clandestinely and extort local populations,\u201d the report notes.<\/p>\n

The secretary-general added that the Mozambican islands of Matemo, Vamizi and Makalowe were the stage for the demonstration of IS\u2019s \u201cskills to operate at sea\u201d, with kidnappings, abductions and extortion attacks.<\/p>\n

The report indicates that \u201cthe Islamic State threat has further expanded in Africa through the group\u2019s regional affiliates, while the core of Daesh has remained focused on regrouping in Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMali\u2019s spillovers into Burkina Faso and Niger, Nigeria\u2019s incursions into Niger, Chad and Cameroon and Mozambique\u2019s into Tanzania are all very worrying\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe autonomy delegated by the Daesh core, the large number of small operational cells and the absence of meaningful counterterrorism measures have turned regional affiliates into a major threat with the potential to develop further, possibly towards neighbouring countries,\u201d the report concludes.<\/p>\n

Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique, has been the scene of attacks by armed groups since 2017, described by several governments and international entities as \u201cterrorist\u201d.<\/p>\n

The coastal town of Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, one of the main towns in the north of Cabo Delgado province, was the region where the armed groups carried out their first attack in October 2017.<\/p>\n

Moc\u00edmboa da Praia is located 70 kilometres south of the construction area of the natural gas exploration project led by several international oil companies and led by Total.<\/p>\n

Armed attacks by insurgent groups in districts of northern Cabo Delgado have caused more than 3,100 deaths, according to the conflict registration project ACLED, and more than 817,000 displaced people, according to Mozambican authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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