President Filipe Nyusi stated that the Defense and Security Forces recently repelled several attempts by terrorists to compulsively recruit young people to join their ranks in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. Speaking to journalists Wednesday in the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado, Pemba, shortly after a meeting he held with the provincial government and the State Representation Council, Nyusi said that terrorists are currently looking for young people to join their ranks. “After the first fortnight of last month, there was a greater movement of terrorists in Cabo Delgado than in the past, although not on the same scale as in 2023 when attacks peaked,” he said. “The terrorists came down from the administrative post of Mucojo and were already entering the districts of Metuge and Mecúfi and, to a certain extent, the district of Chiúre. There was an attempted attack, but we know what they are looking for. They cannot recruit easily in this province “. He expressed satisfaction that the terrorists had failed in their attempt to recruit young people. “This is partly due to increased awareness among communities, which are now also on alert. As a result, terrorists are moving to other districts as a way of surprising young people. This is one of the reasons for the current terrorist attacks,” he stated. The resurgence of terrorist attacks in some regions of Cabo Delgado in recent days has caused many families to abandon their homes and head to safer areas, including the province of Nampula. According to the administrator of the Nampulense district of Eráti, Manuel Manussa, the preliminary estimate of displaced people, who entered through the administrative post of Namapa, which borders Chiúre, exceeds 30 thousand. “We have already registered more than 10 thousand people here and there are still many to be registered. Calculations suggest that we could have more than 30 thousand people here at the moment”, said Manussa. However, in addition to recruitment, Nyusi believes that the attacks carried out by terrorists have other reasons that the Defense and Security Forces are still investigating. “The confrontation that the Defense and Security Forces had here in Okua (Chiúre administrative post) was predictable because the terrorists wanted to take children, young people, and they were not happy because the fire of our forces, with our brothers in Rwanda, did not allowed this to happen,” said Nyusi. The Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM), with the support of Rwandan troops and the Southern African Development Community Military Mission (SAMIM), are launching new operations to eliminate terrorist groups. Since October 2017, some districts of Cabo Delgado have suffered terrorist attacks that left more than 3,000 dead and more than 900,000 displaced. (AIM) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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