Tag: Mozambique

Christians in Africa face ‘explosion’ in violence, senior church leader says

December 20, 2019 Global News -- No Particular Country Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Islamic extremism, Mozambique, Nigeria

Church leaders as well as government officials and representatives of the Muslim community attended the funeral of the six killed in the Dablo attack. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Violence against Christians in Africa “is exploding”, according to a senior church leader in the Central African Republic. In Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mozambique there has been an increase in attacks on Christians, including church leaders and churches in recent weeks, said Cardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga in an interview with the . . . Read More

Mozambique: Islamists kill 12 in latest attack in Cabo Delgado

September 25, 2018 Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamâ, Cabo Delgado, Islamic extremism, Mozambique

Mozambique experienced its first confirmed Islamist attack on October 2017. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Suspected jihadists killed 12 and injured 14 in an attack on a village in northern Mozambique last week, reports AFP. “Ten people killed were shot by firearms and two burnt [to death] after 55 houses were charred. A person was beheaded after being shot dead” in the village of Paqueue, . . . Read More

39 killed, 1,000 displaced by new Islamist group terrorising Mozambique

June 22, 2018 Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamâ, Al-Shabaab, Cabo Delgado, Islamic extremism, Maputo, Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique

In Mozambique, details have emerged of the recent attacks carried out by a new Islamist militant group, Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamâ, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. Until recently, little was known about the group known locally as ‘Al-Shabaab’, though there is no evidence to establish connections with the Somali . . . Read More

Did Mozambique beheadings signal emergence of jihad in southern Africa?

June 19, 2018 Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamâ, Cabo Delgado, East Africa, Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique, Sahel

Recent attacks attributed to Islamist militants in Mozambique have raised alarms over the emergence of a jihadist movement in the southern half of Africa – a section of the continent previously relatively untroubled by violent Islamist extremism. Little, if anything, was known about the group behind the attacks, in October . . . Read More

‘Careful response needed’ after Mozambique’s first Islamist attack

October 26, 2017 Al-Shabaab, Cabo Delgado, Islamic extremism, Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Sufi, Sunni, Wahhabism

Mozambiques President Filipe Nyusi addresses the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in New York on 21 September 2016. (Photo: Getty Images)

Mozambique experienced its first confirmed Islamist attack earlier this month when a local group raided three police stations in the coastal town of Mocimboa da Praia. Now a “careful response” is required from the government, says African historian Eric Morier-Genoud. A group of about 30 armed men launched the attack . . . Read More

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