Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi warned young people on Friday not to be seduced by promises of work from armed groups, warning that “many people deceived by terrorists are missing.”
“Don’t let them be deceived, because those who were deceived are missing and we don’t know where they are,” Nyusi emphasized.
The Mozambican head of state was speaking in a meeting with the population, after the inauguration of the building of the Judicial Court of the Vandúzi district, in the province of Manica, in central Mozambique.
Young people, he continued, must take advantage of the employment opportunities that are being created in various sectors of the economy, namely agriculture and industrial units.
“There is work in the fields [campos agrícolas e nas pequenas fábricas]” that are starting to work, he said.
Philip Nyusi called on the populations to remain “attentive” to seduction attempts by armed groups, praising the resistance of the Maniac communities to insurgent mobilization attempts.
On Thursday, the Mozambican president defended that the country must prevent the expansion of armed groups to more provinces and pointed out that “terrorism has no borders, it has no headquarters.”
Earlier, on Wednesday, the head of state had said that at least six people have died since Saturday in a new wave of armed attacks in northern Mozambique and the fighting continues.
“Six citizens were beheaded, three kidnapped and dozens of houses burned,” he said in the city of Xai-Xai, during the speech alluding to Victory Day.
Some points in the extreme north of the province of Nampula, together with Cabo Delgado, are the scene of instability caused by the presence of armed groups.
Cabo Delgado province is rich in natural gas but has been terrorized since 2017 by armed violence, with some attacks claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.
The insurgency led a year ago to a military response by Rwandan forces and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts close to gas projects, but provoking a new wave of attacks in other areas, closer to Pemba, provincial capital.
There are around 800,000 internally displaced due to the conflictaccording to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and some 4,000 dead, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.
Source: Observadora
