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Nov
19
2020
By The African Mirror
Women’s memories of food offer insights into Mozambique’s liberation struggle

Women’s memories of food offer insights into Mozambique’s liberation struggle

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
WE don’t just taste food. Aromas, visual images, sounds and touch are equally part of our eating experience. Food also evokes feelings. We can experience it with joy but also with displeasure. This sensorily evocative power of food makes it an important site for remembering the past, which in turn influences our relation to food in the present. JONNA KATTO, Postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University There is much important literature in Africa that deals with food security and the biological necessity of eating. However, my research explores how food is connected to remembering and making sense of the past, especially a…
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Nov
11
2020
By The African Mirror
U.N. urges Mozambique to investigate reported massacres, beheadings

U.N. urges Mozambique to investigate reported massacres, beheadings

NEWS
THE United Nations has called on Mozambique to investigate reports that militants had massacred villagers and beheaded women and children in a restive northern region. As many as 50 people have died in recent days in attacks by fighters linked to Islamic State, local media including Mediafax and The Pinnacle News have reported. Violence had surged this year in Cabo Delgado - a province that borders Tanzania and is the site of a multi-billion dollar natural gas project - alarming governments across southern Africa. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for an investigation in a statement late on Tuesday. UN Secretary-General…
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Nov
11
2020
By The African Mirror
Islamist militants behead more than 50 people in Mozambique

Islamist militants behead more than 50 people in Mozambique

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN one of the most gruesome killings, Islamic militants have attacked a village in northern Mozambique, beheaded more than 50 people, chopped up the bodies of victims and set their homes alight. According to reports, the victims were rounded up and taken to a football field where they were killed. Their dismembered bodies were found scattered across a forest not far from the field. According to the BBC, the militants' gunmen chanted 'Allahu Akbar' as they raided a village and abducted some of its women, while others slaughtered victims in nearby Muatide. The attack is the latest…
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Nov
10
2020
By The African Mirror
Mozambique files charges against ex-finance minister over $2 billion debt

Mozambique files charges against ex-finance minister over $2 billion debt

NEWS
MOZAMBIQUE has filed provisional embezzlement, money laundering and abuse of office charges against former finance minister Manuel Chang over $2 billion in state-guaranteed debt borrowed during his term in office. Chang has been in custody in South Africa since December 2018, where he is being sought both by Mozambique and the United States to face prosecution over the loans. Three former Credit Suisse bankers who helped arrange the loans pleaded guilty in the United States earlier this year to conspiracy charges including bribery and fraud. South Africa had cited the absence of formal charges in Mozambique as an issue blocking…
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Nov
10
2020
By The African Mirror
Catalogue of failures behind growing humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique

Catalogue of failures behind growing humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique

HUMAN RIGHTS
CABO Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique, has been under attack for three years. The violence was triggered in 2017 when armed men attacked a police station, killing one police officer and critically injuring another. Locals identified the assailants as “al-shabaab”, alluding to an Islamic connection. CRISTIANO D'ORSI, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg This year, the violence has escalated. In August, militants linked to the Islamic State seized the province’s strategic port town. The militants are reported to have formal ties to Islamic State. They are also…
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Nov
04
2020
By The African Mirror
Over 40 feared dead after boat carrying Mozambique conflict victims sinks

Over 40 feared dead after boat carrying Mozambique conflict victims sinks

NEWS
MORE than 40 people were feared to have drowned in Mozambique's conflict-torn north after their boat sank, the administrator of an island district has announced. Almost 400,000 people have fled their homes in the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, according to the World Food Programme. Home to gas projects worth some $60 billion, the province is also the target of an Islamist insurgency with links to Islamic State that has flourished since 2017. The boat was carrying 74 people fleeing the violence when it sank on Sunday in the Indian Ocean between the islands of Ibo and Matemo, just north…
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Oct
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Mozambique to seek extradition of ex-Credit Suisse bankers involved in $2 bln debt

Mozambique to seek extradition of ex-Credit Suisse bankers involved in $2 bln debt

BUSINESS
MOZAMBIQUE's Attorney General's Office will seek the extradition of three former Credit Suisse bankers implicated in a $2 billion debt scandal that sent the country's economy into crisis. Andrew Pearse, Detelina Subeva and Surjan Singh, who helped arrange the loans to Mozambique, all pleaded guilty in the United States last year to charges including conspiracy to violate U.S. anti-bribery laws and to commit money laundering and securities fraud in relation to their role in the affair. Surjan Singh, Andrew Pearse and Detelina Subeva. Lawyers for the three bankers did not immediately respond to requests for comment or could not immediately…
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Oct
17
2020
By The African Mirror
Virus fears as Mozambique conflict fuels overcrowding, hunger

Virus fears as Mozambique conflict fuels overcrowding, hunger

HUMAN RIGHTS
TAVARES CEBOLA THREE months ago, Sofia Bombina and her family of 11 had to flee their home on the Mozambique coast after their town was attacked by a militant group. The 39-year-old farmer, her nine children and her sister travelled nearly 400km (250 miles) by bus from Mocimboa da Praia to Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado province, where they now live with a host family. Bombina is among the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced since an insurgency erupted in the northern province three years ago. Most of those escaping the ongoing conflict are finding shelter…
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Oct
15
2020
By The African Mirror
At least 16 artisanal miners drown in flooded mining field in Mozambique

At least 16 artisanal miners drown in flooded mining field in Mozambique

NEWS
AT least 16 artisanal gold miners drowned in northern Mozambique after heavy rains flooded the mining field they were working in, a local television station reported, while more remain missing. Citing local and disaster management officials, Miramar reported 24 deaths overall in the storms, which began at the weekend and lashed central and northern Mozambique with heavy rains, thunder and hail. Faruk Satar, a district head in the northern province of Nampula, told the TV station on Wednesday that the miners had drowned after waters surged down a normally dry river bed, flooding the nearby mining field. Thirteen bodies were…
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Oct
10
2020
By The African Mirror
EU to offer Mozambique support in tackling insurgency

EU to offer Mozambique support in tackling insurgency

NEWS
THE European Union will offer Mozambique support in tackling a wave of militant attacks in the country's north by rebels with links to Islamic State, according to the EU's ambassador to the southern African nation. The rebel attacks in Cabo Delgado province date back to 2017 but the violence has gathered pace this year with insurgents seizing important towns for brief periods and hitting military and other strategic targets. Mozambique had asked the EU for help in training its armed forces to battle the insurgency, which has raised fears for stability and security in southern Africa. "The government of Mozambique…
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