When Emilia Machel, 30, and her three children rushed to the Chiaquelane site for displaced people on the afternoon of January 17, much of her hometown of Chokwe in Mozambique's Gaza Province was already flooded. The Limpopo River, which begins in neighbouring South Africa and flows into Mozambique, had reached dangerously high levels after heavy rain fell on the Southern Africa region from late December to mid-January.
I look out from my sunlounger, flanked by a wall of dazzling fuchsia bougainvillea and surrounded by combed sand the colour of flour. In the salty breeze the sweet smell of freshly baked croissants drifts across from the nearby veranda, where giant passion fruits and fine slices of mango and papaya are being laid out for breakfast. On the immaculately mowed lawns below, a waiter is taking down fairy lights, strung between palm trees for last night's seafood barbecue.
More than 1 million people have been displaced, many of them two, three or even four times. Neither the Mozambican army nor a Rwandan intervention have managed to quell the insurgency, which has ravaged northern Mozambique since October 2017, when militants from Islamic State-Mozambique, an affiliate of the main IS group in the Middle East, carried out their first attacks, in Mocimboa da Praia in Cabo Delgado province in the north-east.
A lone goal by the Manchester United forward is enough for Ivory Coast to successfully begin their AFCON title defence. Holders Ivory Coast squandered a number of chances, but Amad Diallo's goal early in the second half was enough to beat Mozambique 1-0 and give them a winning start to their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title defence. In the opening Group F game on Wednesday in Morocco,
The complaint centers on alleged abuses committed between July and September 2021 by soldiers belonging to a joint task force (JTF) that was deployed to protect the Cabo Delgado gas site. The JTF, paid by TotalEnergies under an agreement with the government, was made up of Mozambican armed forces, with the alleged actions taking place following a jihadi attack on the site that led to operations being suspended there.
On a sweltering Saturday afternoon in Maputo, people line up at refreshment stands dotted around a conference venue hosting Mozambique's biggest annual trade fair. But zipping between them in jeans and a black T-shirt a tray of drinks in hand one young woman is trying a different tack. Ludmila Malambe, tasty and nutritious, announces the branding on her shirt, written in Portuguese below an illustration of a cup of baobab fruit juice.
Ismael, 13, and his brother Estebao, 10, recount their abduction by armed members of the ISIL affiliate in Mozambique, emphasizing the traumatic impact it had on them. They were seized from their village while playing, increasing concerns about the rise of child abductions in the Cabo Delgado region.
