The ISIL (ISIS) group has claimed responsibility for an attack on the town of Palma in northern Mozambique, which left dozens of people dead and thousands missing.
It said its fighters had seized the town in the gas-rich region after several days of fighting.
Security forces are trying to secure Palma; the exact number of people killed, injured and unaccounted for – is still unknown.
Armed groups have been launching attacks in the region since 2017.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports.
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@Ibrahima Mbodj economics works hand in hand with tribalism and marginalisation.
Once there is an opportunity, the poor are blocked from being part of it.
When they realise why?
They think about pragmatic approach.
Redistribution of wealth and services removes the pain of wars and destruction.
Mozambique will not financially benefit from the Gas Project because much of the revenue will be used to deal with insecurity.
It is cheap to address the root cause of all this, then wisely find a balance and solution.
That’s how wise people become successful.
My question still remains, where did they hides when Trump was in office!?
They wrecked havoc during Obama’s era with impunity, no one ever imagined they can be defeated by ordinary women but it took a few Kurdish women trained by U.S Army to destroy them in Syria and Iraq but funny thing Biden who was Obama’s Vice President then assumed office and this monsters resurfaces again but no one is raising an eyebrows but believe in the fake news.
@Mannix Mannix The Mozambique’s civil war was there even during Trump.
It was ignored.
It’s only now that the media has picked interests because there’s nothing to talk about.
During Trump, Trump was the News because of his unpredictable behaviour.
I am not a fan of Trump and I don’t care.
Ask Netanyahu of Israel.
They were good friends.
Al Shabab & ISIL are pork. They need to be grilled in the name of ” Allah “
Shame on the african union
Agreed, Islamism needs to be scrubbed from the continent for it to be able to get anywhere without being undermined by genocidal terrorists.
The state stayed and be spread
@Hans von Zettour I said Islamism, rather than Islam, although the two are obviously highly correlated, so it strikes me as a bit disingenuous of you to say that they have nothing to do with each other. If Christians were still heading off to the Middle East on crusades I’d say that Christianism, as opposed to Christianity, would also need to be eradicated.
France is stealing Mozambique oil and gas
So france supporting ISIL??…😑..what a nonsence comment
@SANTA FE GAMER
for sure he is muslim and he want to tell you it isn’t islam problem but its France
Someone is, it’s about resources as stated
@dd mm well it is a crucial piece of information wouldn’t you say?
washing your hands off of it is not helping.
Meu Deus, quantos mais morreram em nome de Deus “a” ou Deus “b” ?
Chega de derramamento de sangue.
Não se trata apenas disso, eles atacam somente áreas ricas em petróleo e gás natural, os motivos deles não são somente religiosos, são estratégicos.
Teach Talban Boukoharam democracy
Promote and accept radical ideologies, be it revolutionary socialism or fundamentalist religiousness, and you’ll always experience these sort of problems. Especially if the state can’t assert control over the unstable elements of a country.
You talk like an extremist.
and u sound dumb
South Africa will come to the rescue! Lol
We’ve been denied lmao
@moosesnWoop123 have we?
we could’ve made ourselves useful with air strikes, good opportunity to get our pilots experienced
@Brian Muller Most definitely. Send a few rooivalk’s and some gryphons.
We also have tanks!
Leave Islam ….become human being
@Nome Ultimo Nome Islam is good, your problem is that you dont know what is islam, you only hear news of terrorist attacks and you think that’s islam.
@Saadouni Said its very bad religion
@Diaz Castro no it’s not
@Diaz Castro i’m sure you dont know anything about islam
@Saadouni Said we can pretend the whole year how good islam is but facts remain that your religion is problematic . Look at Middle East . Look at countries like turkey who ensure that they destabilize their neighbors just because of their religion. Look at countries like Syria. The entire country is vanishing just because of that religion
Islam!!!! Again!!
@BIT MAN lol.u don’t worship there are people for worshiping
@khader lol. Islam is doing terrorism all over the world.
@khader and you are talking about a decade old attack.
@khader I m not a politician. I don’t have to balance when criticizing brutal killings which is happening on a daily basis with something similar happened a decade ago.
@Hans von Zettour It has everything to do with terrorism. Islam is terrorism. Cowardly killing of innocent civilians.
Gulf countries support terrorism in other countries so only their oil can be sold or else their economy will collapse.
France again 👹👹
dont change the topic you muslim
No, it is this evil and murderous Islamic ISIS again. Yes, it is Islam.
peaceful attack from peaceful people from peaceful religion
Who funds these groups? I bet it’s the European countries and America did i hear gas was discovered there?
all cuck isil can ever take credit for is a pathetic outburst of violence, bomb these ISIL cockroaches some more
Devils are working hard against Jesus Christ and his people
They most certainly are.. Mocker comments dont make this fact untrue.
Islam is good for animals but not suitable for humans. Muhammad was a warlord so this is typical behaviour
No you are wrong, Islam came to uplift the humans from worshiping other humans & idols to the worship of the one true god.
@Saadouni Said Just because you claim to worship the one true god does not mean you are doing so in a true manner. The message is good in theory but in practise Islam is heavily corrupted, mixing Arab culture with Abrahamic religion. And this corruption is the reason why the Islamic world has always been in turmoil, every where Islam moves war, death, destruction, poverty and injustice follows. Is this not a sign of corruption within Islam?
@NOTAX 187 the Muslim world was cursed to have evolved on top of oil……
Perfectly correct. A religion cannot go around doing nothing apart from carrying out acts of terrorism on civilians. This is a religion that should be banned from Africa.
That is islamo fascism. My uncle sentenced terrorsts to death in Bahrain.
@Amal Abdelnour israel are the fascists
@Amal Abdelnour 👍👍👍 progressive muslim country. Baharin and oman..👍👍
With a twist…Obama boasted about funding and arming ISIL in one of his press briefings about 9 years ago and then he delivered 6 planes of stolen American taxpayers cash in a variety of bills to Iran just before he left office
Coincidence??
@Profesor Anti-communista Not everything
@Mike T yeah . I have one cousin’s son in UAE. He bombed isis in 2014. UAE AIR FORCE.
Qatar backs terrorsts
Greedy western corporations. Abundant oil and gas. Corrupt African government. Marginalized and hungry BLACK people… deadly mix.
And most importantly the religion of peace.
Where is the African government to stop ISIS other countries can’t keep sending in their people to save them. The will never stop the fighting until ISIS is wiped from the face of the earth
A day to celebrate and more to come.
Boy are you some special kind of stupid!
Manshalah good job alshabab
Allah Akbar
DESTINOOO MOSAMBIQUEE
Why is Al Jazeera showcasing a white guy who got killed? Where are the UN forces? Where is the African Union?
Because black lives dont matter my brother, they only care about their white masters.
Stop twisting stories. Whether the victim is black or white is not the issue. What matters is that the victim was a non-combat civilian. And that he was killed by the terroristic, blood thirsty, murderous Islamic ISIS. Islam rears it’s ugly head once again.
@George Odhiambo I don’t think I twisted it at all. My heart goes out to him and his family.
It’s best way to kill ideology than the terrorists.
Mozambique your efforts are failure until you wipe out radical ideology from your nation. Be safe.
Stop them at the source…Saudi Arabia.
Dont blame the whole country…blame the corrupt leaders
Saudi arbia is not helping instead qatar.
The source is the quran not saudi arabia
Saudi Arabia CIA and the Zionists at it again. Disgusting!!!
Where there is Islam , there is war.
@Minji Kim oh boy . look like u re bbc fan..
I think the right statement should be…” Where there is oil and gas resources there is war”
@hassan chikarata Afghanistan doesn’t have oil and we are still living a miserable life due to Taliban 😔
@Sakhout Hossain Read the comment again. He didn’t say “where there was war…..”. He said, “where there is war….” Islam and terrorism is one and the same thing. This terroristic religion should be banished from Africa, particularly non-Arabic Africa.
@Sakhout Hossain The crusades took place around one thousand years ago. He didn’t say, ” Where there was war…”. He said “where there is war…..”! Present tense.
Allah akbar
@ترهبون به عدو الله وعدوكم 💣🔥🔥
Religion of peace and love again
@Cillm Vunace no, Islam never encourages people to kill civilians, please dont be stupid read the quran my brother may allah guide you
@Saadouni Said Follower of the prophet of Satan
@Joseph Kopas no that title is reserved for your allies who practice Judaism “Judeo-Christian” a literal oxymoron.
@Saadouni Said Really? if that is so, why these terrorists are kiling ppl mercilessly and beheading then?…with these kind of barbaric act, definitely nobody is going to admire or appreciate ur religion…action speaks louder than the voice brother… you say ur book never encourages ppl to kill, then what is the motive behind to kill like this, why are they misled?…give me a clear answer to my question.
@Saadouni Said why read poison . we wont be brain washed like you fool
Anybody that thinks the African Union is some kind of power I guess you stupid enough to fall for anything
In my SADF days we woulda bin right on it as this is a threat to South Africa..will the new SANDF do same and also secure our borders and in quick time at that ? , i really hope so though doubt it
The soulless ISIS savages strike again!
Someone is arming these group…they are getting something in return…isis shud not be their name …their action is a trangression of islamic religion …
Isis is doing what Mohamed did back in his day
This continent is cursed.
@Ashen one it’s not like europe is good,
@Greater Somalia europe is 1st world, look at somalia, basically everyone is living below the poverty line and that place is war torn
@Brian Muller everyone 😂. The president is a millionaire and he isn’t corrupt and look not everyone is POOR AND NOT EVERYONE IS RICH.And not everyone in any European country is rich or has a normal life lol
@Greater Somalia let’s take the UK for example, look at everyone there living a happy life, yes you get the rich and the poor but tell my why a place like the UK is 1st world
@Brian Muller 1st world.2nd world and 3rd world were used during the Cold War not due to economy. Are u saying Poland is not that rich because it’s 2nd world country
Christians claim hitler was atheist 😂 and he was a catholic. Oh man typical Islamophobes
Encourage them to turn themselves into human explosives.
Allah Akbar ☝️
You are correct but why carry hate in the heart and call him 🤔
May be it hurts you. And your pain is a lot 🙂 you want to fix 😉
Somalia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Africa fall to the bottom
Are you muslim?
You can’t defeat ideologies like terrorism and extremism
Zimbabwe needs to send soldiers
why Zimbabwe?🤣
useless army
They must be stopped
@abis9 alpha9 this looks like a job for the south arfican national defense force
@abis9 alpha9 SA needs to conduct air strikes
@Brian Muller and what type of Aerial combat capabilities has SA ???
NATO style F-16 Laser Guided bombing Tech ??? Or cold war Era Dive Bombing with Soviet Planes ????
If it’s the latter, it won’t make much of a Difference
Against Boko Haram & AQ in Mali, French and US air support were necessary
@abis9 alpha9 we have gripens and rooivalks
@abis9 alpha9 and we’ve never had soviet planes when we were anti commie
This is what pigslam.
Isn’t isis a creation of the west and Israel.
No😂
Where is the army?
Religion of peace or killing machines religion…
@Hans von Zettour as a iranian who lives in a islamic country i can say this is straight about islam..shia or sunn both of them my aryan brother
@Hans von Zettour It has everything to do with Islam.
The religion of hate.
the situation in Mozambique is on the verge of a full blown Civil War-Total & Mozambique Goverment are soley responsible for not ensuring the safety of there Workers/Contractors..they should have forseen what was going to happen
ReLiGiON oF PeAcE
This is about $$$ money nothing to do with religion don’t be foolish and be a follower of media.
@Hans von Zettour Agreed 👍🏼💯
@Khalid SL bruh they literally scream “allah ackbar” during the terrorist attacks. Then they make a video to tell the world they did it to start a holy war and form a kalifate. And now people still say it has nothing to do with the religion.🤦🏻♂️
@Stan Man This is for propaganda in the history of mozambique they never had such things. However they did have rebels.
Its all about money and funding the easiest way to make money in Africa is to use religion or kidnappings.
For example if you was to start a Christian chuch and marked it as a reformists people will donate money. There where so much false priest who clamed to be prophets. They made millions $$$ some where extradited from South Africa.
True Islam has nothing to do with none of these groups or ideology.
it is nothing new muhammad did exactly same. read al-bukhari 52 220. muhammad was victorious with terror.
@Hans von Zettour lol
Mozambique here
One should not blame islam for it. One should believe in conspiracy theory.
Religion of peace doing peaceful activities
Wonder how this is gonna be blamed on white men
Palma conquered, now it’s time to fully take control of the Borno state and advance forward
may allah guide daesh soldiers
AU are you seeing this ?
Peaceful religion.
What is TOTAL (the French company that exploit gas and oil) doing in the region? Why suddenly EU has so much interests in the region? It seems that wherever France finds its interests in Africa, Radical Islamism becomes the issue. Just a thought. Who is sponsoring them?
There is no Islamic terrorism in Cabo Delgado, there is a great conflict of interest. The goal is to sow chaos and then come up with solutions to that chaos in the form of private security for large projects. I am very sorry for my compatriots in Cabo Delgado who are being subjected to this gratuitous violence due to the greed of our politicians and these gas exploration companies. So, stop fooling us with these intellectual speeches.
Peaceful people spreading peace haha
If it was an Arab country the Americans and Europeans would have been there full time because of the oil. African Union is just a poster and nothing much.
If you think for once this has any thing to do with religious fanaticism, your a joke. These are native rebels using there own man power to bring fellow natives to fight against the west, far east, and the very government that has sold their nation to foreigners.
The murderous and blood thirsty Islamic ISIS has claimed responsibility. Islam rears its ugly head once again.
Allah Hu akbar
Who ever thinks that this has to do with Islam know you are damp and doom. this is what our politicians and western country do. When ever there is gus and oil there is Alshabab.,Alqaida,isis ..etc. but all gus and oil company’s belongs to westerns. So please just look straight and find solution coz running from truth and blaming the scapegoat wont bring solution
If you say, “He knows nothing about us!”,
Do you think that the one who penetrates the heart has no discernment, that the one who guards your soul knows nothing?
He will pay the man according to his deeds.
As soon as Trump leaves office….. this is going to get a lot worse with Biden folks
Terrorist religion
MOZAMBIQUE IS GOING TO REGRET THE AMOUNT OF PEACE WHICH WILL BE SPREAD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY BY THE FOLLOWERS OF THE RELIGION OF PEACE.
LEAVE THE GAS ALONE… since when did isis come naturally tho. Whats going on someone?
And please o dont touch tanzania…
The people who had to kill were not terrorists they were acting in self defense
😪😰😭