
Maputo, 25 Sep (AIM) – The government of Macomia district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, has called on state employees who abandoned the region following attacks by islamist terrorists to return to their workplaces by 30 September since security conditions have supposedly been re-established.
The terrorist attack, which led the state employees to withdraw from Macomia, took place on 10 May.
According to a statement, the Macomia district government analyzed the current security situation, the level of presence of the population and the need to provide basic services to the communities living in the district.
“Therefore, in order to guarantee the provision of public services to the population, all state employees and agents are requested to report to their places of work by 30 September 2024”, reads the statement.
The district government also said that it will continue to improve the citizens’ living conditions by implementing essential services in the region.
However, local sources, cited in Wednesday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Carta de Moçambique”, say that the district still lacks almost everything, from basic health services to education as well as food aid.
Non-governmental humanitarian support organizations also have not returned to the town of Macomia yet, thus depriving hundreds of displaced people of food and other assistance.
The appeal comes at a time when military operations by the Mozambican and Rwandan Forces have been under way on the Macomia coast for nearly two months.
On Wednesday, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, speaking at ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the launch of the armed national liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule on 25 September 1964, claimed that the authorities are in control of the situation in Cabo Delgado, although “we know that some terrorists are still confined in the Mucojo Administrative Post, in Macomia district. Our soldiers are making an effort to fully recover the territory.”
(AIM)
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