Mozambique: worrisome anomaly in militant attack targeting

While Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi stated in a public address on April 7 that the country’s defense and armed forces carried out an assault on a suspected Islamist militant camp in the Macomia district of the country’s Cabo Delgado province, capturing fighters and materiel, the precursor event that led to the counterinsurgency operation was not emphasized. And that precursor event is a worrisome anomaly in the behavior of Islamist militants operating in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province. The precursor event took place on April 2 when suspected Islamist militants attacked a Mozambique military encampment in Maculo of the Mocímboa da …

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