{"id":50406,"date":"2023-11-15T22:11:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road"},"modified":"2023-11-15T22:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:30:01","slug":"cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road","title":{"rendered":"Cabo Delgado: Drivers do double speed limit on \u2018corridor of terror\u2019 road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambican passenger carrier Nelson Ma\u0301rio escaped the terrorist attacks on the road between Meluco and Macomia, and today, despite the relative calm in Cabo Delgado, he continues to drive fast on the so-called \u201cterror corridor\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are afraid when we travel,\u201d the young driver tells Lusa, as he waits for more people at the passenger transport terminal in Pemba, the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost 2 p.m. and, despite more than a year without any incidents on the road and the stabilisation of the security situation in the province, Nelson Ma\u0301rio knows he can\u2019t travel at night, especially on the \u201cterror corridor\u201d, as the stretch between Meluco and Macomia was nicknamed at the peak of the armed attacks in Cabo Delgado.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, there are points where we have to use escorts to cross. We didn\u2019t have that a long time ago,\u201d says the haulier, who has been travelling the route between the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado (Pemba) and Macomia for almost six years, despite interruptions at the peak of the attacks.<\/p>\n

On the route of more than 200 kilometres that separates Pemba from the district headquarters of Macomia, passing through Meluco, fear is a common denominator for those in Nelson\u2019s van, given that the stretch has been the scene of several attacks by insurgent groups, with even unaccounted for deaths.<\/p>\n

Nelson, 28, is one of the many drivers who have to work up the courage to survive, but on the 90 or so kilometres that separate Meluco from Macomia, it\u2019s still necessary, for safety\u2019s sake, to \u201chit the accelerator hard\u201d, sometimes reaching 140 kilometres per hour, almost double the maximum limit.<\/p>\n

Worse than that, he adds, is the lack of a \u201clogical explanation\u201d for a war whose main victims are people living on the edge of poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t understand what\u2019s going on. We don\u2019t see what we\u2019ve done,\u201d said the driver, who was born and raised in Moci\u0301mboa da Praia, where the rebels carried out their first attack in October 2017.<\/p>\n

The same lack of answers from those trying to understand the conflict haunts Orlando Augusto, 32, the \u201ccollector\u201d of Nelson\u2019s van.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people don\u2019t accept that this war situation is over. We ourselves have doubts, we\u2019re travelling at our peril,\u201d admits the van\u2019s collector, who also regrets the lack of a clear cause for the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand the cause of all this terror. It\u2019s incomprehensible,\u201d he laments.<\/p>\n

The province of Cabo Delgado has been facing an armed insurgency for six years, with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.<\/p>\n

While explanations about the causes of the conflict are still lacking, life in Cabo Delgado seems to be timidly taking shape again since the arrival of foreign forces that have been supporting the Mozambican army in the fight against the rebels.<\/p>\n

The insurgency has led to a military response since July 2021 with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts near the gas projects, but new waves of attacks have emerged in the south of the region and in neighbouring Nampula province.<\/p>\n

The conflict has already displaced a million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and caused around 4,000 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambican passenger carrier Nelson Ma\u0301rio escaped the terrorist attacks on the road between Meluco and Macomia, and today, despite the relative calm in Cabo Delgado, he continues to drive fast on the so-called \u201cterror corridor\u201d. \u201cWe are afraid when we travel,\u201d the young driver tells Lusa, as he waits for more people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":50405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-50406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nCabo Delgado: Drivers do double speed limit on \u2018corridor of terror\u2019 road - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mozambican passenger carrier Nelson Ma\u0301rio escaped the terrorist attacks on the road between Meluco and Macomia, and tod ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cabo Delgado: Drivers do double speed limit on \u2018corridor of terror\u2019 road\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mozambican passenger carrier Nelson Ma\u0301rio escaped the terrorist attacks on the road between Meluco and Macomia, and tod ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-15T22:11:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-15T22:30:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2023\/11\/sm_1700074671.752229.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"903\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"625\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Cabo Delgado: Drivers do double speed limit on \u2018corridor of terror\u2019 road\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-15T22:11:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-15T22:30:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road\"},\"wordCount\":582,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2023\/11\/sm_1700074671.752229.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/cabo-delgado-drivers-do-double-speed-limit-on-corridor-of-terror-road\",\"name\":\"Cabo Delgado: Drivers do double speed limit on \u2018corridor of terror\u2019 road - 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