
Deslocados vitimas do terrorrismo em Cabo Delgado, chegados ao Distrito de Mueda a procura de refugio. Foto de Ferhat Momade
Maputo, 17 Sep (AIM) – Residents of Tororo village, in Quissanga district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, are concerned at the movements of Islamist terrorists in the region.
According to Tuesday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Carta de Moçambique”, citing local sources, the terrorists were seen last weekend in some fields, in the production area known as Ntapuati.
According to the paper’s sources, terrorists may be establishing a new base in the forests of that region. “They went through the fields, but they didn’t hurt anyone, they caught the farmers harvesting and scraping cassava to dry. They told them to work as they pleased”, one source said.
Other Quissanga residents suspect that the terrorists seen in the Tororo area may be part of those who have fled from the recent offensives by the Mozambican and Rwandan Forces operating in Mucojo Administrative Post, in Macomia district.
However, the residents say that life in the district headquarters of Quissanga, and in Bilibiza and Mahate is going on normally, taking into account that the measles vaccination campaign, launched on Monday, throughout the district, has been taking place.
“Mobile vaccination brigades are travelling through the villages without any difficulty. As a sign of some stability, the training of polling station staff for the 9 October elections will begin on 21 September”, a source said.
(AIM)
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