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People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than a thousand people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

Palma

Two months after Palma raid, Mozambique survivors still on run

By AFP

The scramble to escape Quitunda still rages on. Private fishing boats charge the equivalent of between $50 and $80 per trip to Pemba -- a cripplingly steep fare...

  • People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than 1,000 people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    White people 'rescued first' in Mozambique attack: Amnesty

    In a report compiled from interviews with 11 black survivors, it charged that even dogs were pulled to safety ahead of black people by a helicopter that airlifted civilians from a hotel where they had sought refuge.

    377 days ago
  • People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than a thousand people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    Mozambique town remains traumatised weeks after deadly jihadist attack

    The jihadists swooped on the coastal town on March 24, killing dozens of people and triggering an exodus that included workers on a multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.

    386 days ago
  • People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than 1,000 people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    New clashes in Mozambique's northeast: army

    Islamic State-linked militants raided the coastal town of Palma on 24 March in an assault that marked a major intensification in an insurgency that has wreaked havoc across Cabo Delgado province for over three years as the jihadists seek to establish a caliphate.

    405 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 2 April 2021, a woman rests with her baby on the ground at the Pemba Sports center that is now a shelter in Pemba. On 24 March 2021 armed groups terrorised the port in the poor but gas-rich Cabo Delgado region, killing at least dozens of people.  Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP.

    UN warns of crisis for Mozambique children after attacks

    Alone after being separated from her family in a jihadist attack, one six-year-old girl wandered through the brush of northern Mozambique for four days before being taken in by Unicef.

    406 days ago
  • People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than a thousand people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    'They are not sleeping': fears over Mozambique jihadists' next move

    On March 24, Islamic-State linked militants launched a strategic, coordinated assault on Palma that overwhelmed security forces and caused French energy giant Total to abandon a nearby gas project.

    408 days ago
  • FILE: Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    IS-linked militants 'chased' from Mozambique town of Palma: president

    President Filipe Nyusi - speaking on the eve of a regional summit on the crisis - said his government had made requests for help. He did not give details.

    414 days ago
  • People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than 1,000 people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    Southern African states set emergency talks on Mozambique

    Islamic State-linked militants launched an assault on the town of Palma on March 24, in what is seen as the biggest escalation of a three-year-old insurgency.

    415 days ago
  • People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than a thousand people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    Doctors Without Borders dealing with 450 queries per day around Pemba

    Doctors Without Borders project coordinator Luiz Guimaraes in Mozambique said the situation was serious and teams were doing their best to assist those who have been hurt during the conflict.

    415 days ago
  • People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than 1,000 people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    Images of Islamist attack in Mozambique show severity of situation

    A series of photographs and videos, passed exclusively to Sky News, offer the first glimpse at the scale of the assault on the town of 52,000 people by the militants.

    416 days ago
  • People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than 1,000 people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    Mozambique attack survivors haunted by sight of dead bodies

    Eleven days after what is seen as the biggest escalation of the Islamist insurgency ravaging the region since 2017, the true death toll from the coordinated attacks in March remains unknown, with internet and mobile phone networks disrupted.

    417 days ago
  • FILE: A map showing Cabo Delgado, province of Mozambique. Picture: 123rf.com

    AU calls for urgent action after Mozambique jihadist attack

    The jihadists captured Palma on 24 March, ransacking buildings and beheading residents and forcing thousands to seek safety in surrounding forest.

    420 days ago
  • FILE: In this file photo, a Mozambican woman walks in Palma, a small, palm-fringed fishing town meant to become a symbol of Mozambique's glittering future, transformed by one of the world's largest liquefied natural gas projects. Islamist militants have seized control of the northern Mozambique town of Palma, near a huge gas project involving French oil major Total and other international energy companies, security sources said on 27 March 2021. Picture: AFP

    Over 8,000 Mozambique attack survivors find refuge: UN

    Dozens have been killed and many more are still missing in a coordinated attack seen as the biggest escalation of an Islamist insurgency that has battered Cabo Delgado province since 2017.

    420 days ago
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