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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>In the town of Chiu\u0300re, in the south of Cabo Delgado province, life now changes from day to night, and watching the sun rise on the street is no longer possible with the approach of terrorist attacks in the last week.<\/p>\n

On the town\u2019s main avenue, the intense movement of the early hours of the day, with shops and hundreds of vendors along a street that mixes dirt and potholes with vestiges of tar, the hundreds of people shopping or walking under the scorching sun start fading away in the early afternoon.<\/p>\n

By 6:00 p.m., as the sun sets, everyone is at home, fearing the night and the terrorist attacks now being registered no more than ten kilometres distant in the district.<\/p>\n

At the Mucacata bar counter, at 7:30 p.m., three customers are being served by 45-year-old Alfredo Severiano. They have thirty minutes to finish up and quickly return home along an already deserted avenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time, the town would be calm, there were no problems. The problems started this week. At this time it would still be movement,\u201d he explains to Lusa as he prepares to clear the two tables still at the entrance.<\/p>\n

In Chiu\u0300re, a town of usually around 75,000 inhabitants but now, with those displaced by the terrorist attacks on neighbouring villages last week, home to almost 100,000 people, even though there is no official curfew, everyone knows, that at 8:00 p.m., it is time to stop going outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the ones who think that. This is just to avoid problems. At night, you don\u2019t know now if someone is an enemy or not,\u201d explains Severiano, a barista at Mucacata since 1983.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was this week that the confusion started,\u201d he adds. Before that, \u201cnothing like this had ever happened\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, his last customers start to say their goodbyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey already know they have to leave. There\u2019s no way of staying here late into the night, like before,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Wilson, 28 years old, who sells clothes on Chiu\u0300re\u2019s main thoroughfare, is drinking a last soda at the bar.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of terrorism in Cabo Delgado, the situation is not good at all,\u201d he explains, acknowledging that outside \u201cthey are already sleeping\u201d, afraid of the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the day, in the morning and until 3:00 p.m., yes, there are people,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, just a few minutes before 8:00 p.m., it\u2019s time to go home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m scared, yes, but I have no nowhere else to go,\u201d Severiano says, before going to check that everything is okay in the \u2018barraca\u2019 where he makes a living.<\/p>\n

Carimo Manuel, 46 years old, is outside the bar, but, unlike the others, he will stay there. He is Mucacata\u2019s security guard at night and works in the machambas during the day.<\/p>\n

Carimo is \u201cvery distressed\u201d about the situation, he tells Lusa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know where we can go (…) Let\u2019s wait,\u201d he says, in a tone that combines calm and the apprehension of another night ahead, the new reality of the past week.<\/p>\n

He will only leave the bar\u2019s door in the morning. Until then, he can only hope for the best, stationed on an avenue where only a few security guards remain outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m scared, but there\u2019s no alternative. We don\u2019t have another job,\u201d he says, about the nights that changed in a few days.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was full \u2013 now they\u2019re gone. There\u2019s no one left,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Bahari Ali Cassimo, 36 years old, has been a councilor for Planning, Administration and Finance in the municipality of Chiu\u0301re for five years. He is already in his second term, but since the beginning of the terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado in 2017, the threat has never reached the town\u2019s doors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are insecure (…) It\u2019s very close \u2013 about 15 kilometres,\u201d he tells Lusa about this week\u2019s attacks in the village of Mmala, which caused at least seven deaths and the flight of thousands of people to Chiu\u0300re.<\/p>\n

A teacher from the village, the town councillor reports, was captured by the insurgents and only released in the following days \u2013 a scenario that fulling justifies retreating home as soon as the sun sets.<\/p>\n

\u201cActually, it\u2019s insecurity. The insecurity we have. From 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., the townspeople cannot move because of insecurity. These insurgents, from what I heard, now ride motorbikes, so neither taxis nor motorbikes can circulate, because they could be seen as suspicious,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

In Chiu\u0300re town, a 150-kilometre, three-hour journey from provincial capital Pemba on a road constantly under threat of new attacks, everything was different a week ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of movement, a lot of movement. People were playing [all night long] in the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, he laments, \u201cthere is nothing\u201d, including no revenue for the municipality: \u201cNot even revenue collection. Everything is at a standstill.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the Mucacata bar, it\u2019s time for Alfredo Severiano to close the doors and go home quickly. But, even so, he believes that things will get better.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe village\u2019s joy is diminished, but it hasn\u2019t altogether disappeared. It\u2019s just diminished,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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