Maputo, 19 Jun (AIM) – A letter allegedly left by terrorists last week in some mosques located in Milamba neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the town of Mocímboa da Praia, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, has terrified the local population, according to a report in Monday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Carta de Mocambique”.
Cabo Delgado has been plagued by terrorist attacks since October 2017, and the first of these attacks were against police installations in Mocimboa da Praia.
Since July 2021, the Mozambican defence and security forces, with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM), have been liberating districts previously occupied by the jihadists, notably Mocimboa da Praia and the neigbouring district of Palma.
The supposed letter from the jihadists, written in the Arabic language, announces the return of attacks in the coming days to the neighbourhoods of Mocímboa da Praia, “to be carried out by terrorists, also known as Babus or Mababu (plural) in the Kimuani language. In the English language, the term can mean the ‘lords’, although the real meaning of ‘babu’’, is ‘grandfather’ or ‘mababu’ the grandparents.”
Sources cited by the paper claim that information about the alleged letter of the terrorists circulated during the past week, “but the whistleblowers did not show it, merely said that someone removed it from the walls.”
The sources, some of them residents of the Milamba neighbourhood, point out that the letter would have been posted in two mosques, led by clerics known as Sheik Daba and Sheik Rachide.
(AIM)
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