Alshabaab Has A Franchise In Mozambique

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Alshabab is now the new Alqaeda in Africa, it has spread its wings to Mozambique and terrorising the local communities. They beheaded 10 people for collaborating with the security services. Mozambique is not Somalia and I won't be surprised if the regime cleanses most Muslims from Mozambique.

Suspected Islamists behead 10 in Mozambique

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/afric...-in-Mozambique/1066-4585602-ndl6ig/index.html


New 'Al-Shabaab' Attacks in North Mozambique.

Three new attacks, allegedly by Al-Shabaab, a militant youth group in northern Mozambique, have left an unconfirmed number of deaths in recent days. A spate of violence has erupted in the region since last year's string of attacks on police stations that left two officers and 14 attackers dead. Known locally as "Al-Shabaab", the group hasn't confirmed any link to the East Africa terrorist group of the same name.

http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00060578.html

Mozambique: Three Islamist Attacks Reported Over Weekend.

Maputo — The Islamist group that has been active in parts of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado since last October launched three raids against villages over the past weekend, according to a report in Tuesday's issue of the independent newssheet “Mediafax”.

The epicentre of the jihadist insurgency is the district of Mocimboa da Praia where the first attacks against police premises occurred on 5 October. Last Friday the terrorist group returned to Mocimboa da Praia, attacking the village of Diaca Velha, near the boundary with Nangade district.

The attackers stole food and other goods, and killed a number of people. The “Mediafax” report could not put a figure on the number of casualties.

On Saturday, the islamists attacked Mangwaza village in Palma district, where they killed one person, burnt down four houses and stole more food.

On Sunday, the group returned to Diaca Velha, and the local population abandoned their homes, fleeing to the nearby village of Awassi. Three people are missing, believed to have been kidnapped by the raiders.

These attacks happened within a week of President Filipe Nyusi's working visit to Cabo Delgado.


The Mozambican police have neither confirmed nor denied the weekend attacks. Contacted by “Mediafax”, the spokesperson for the General Command of the police, Inacio Dina, asked for time to obtain information from Cabo Delgado.



However, the paper's sources report that the Defence and Security Forces in Cabo Delgado launched pursuit operations on Sunday, and captured 30 people believed to be members of the jihadist group.

About a week ago the Cabo Delgado provincial attorney's office remitted to the provincial court the case against 234 people arrested after the earlier attacks, 32 of whom are Tanzanian nationals. They are accused of crimes including first degree murder, mercenarism and the illegal possession and use of firearms.

155 of the accused are in preventive detention, while the other 79 have been released conditionally and are awaiting trial at home.

The prosecution says that none of the accused give clear motives for their actions, and will not say who ordered the attacks.

The group is known locally as “Al Shabaab”, although it does not seem to have any formal connection with the Somali terrorist organisation of that name. Among its demands are the imposition of sharia law, a ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks, and the removal of secular monuments and Christian crosses.

The moslem leadership in Cabo Delgado was aware of, and alarmed by, the presence of extremists. Orthodox moslem clerics tried to warn the authorities of the danger, but until October last year such warnings were not taken seriously.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201804250074.html

A new redicalized ‘Al Shabab - Boko Haram’, but this time in Mozambique


What's left of the Nanduadua mosque lies deep within a labyrinth of alleyways in Mocimboa da Praia, a port town in Mozambique's far north.

A handful of veiled women hurry past the one-time place of worship, which is now reduced to rubble.

"It was the mosque of criminals," local resident Ussene Amisse told AFP. "The mosque of those with hearts of stone."

The Mozambique government ordered it to be levelled in October after a bloody attack blamed on radicalized Muslim youth who allegedly worshipped at the mosque.

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An emerging threat


But in Mocimboa, the emergence of a radical faction in the Muslim community was widely known. "It started three years ago. Fifty or so young people from the town said that we weren't true Muslims," said Ussene Amisse, a teacher at a Koranic school.

"Some of them learnt these things in Somalia. It was when they returned that they started to cause problems."

Radicalized men told their followers not to send their children to school, not to vote and to disobey the authorities.

"They followed the example of fundamentalists in other countries," sighs Amadi Mboni, one of the town's religious leaders.

"We knew, we informed our authorities of the danger -- but we weren't able to prevent some of our children and grandchildren from joining them."

According to official statistics, 17 percent of Mozambicans are Muslim but Islamic leaders say the real figure could be double. In Mocimboa, more than half of the population is Muslim.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/fea...-Boko-Haram-but-this-time-in-Mozambique-.html
 
Cotton

In one of the articles above, the locals are saying the leaders of this group are young Mozambiquen Muslim men who returned to the region after they fought with Alshabaab in Somalia.
Al shabaab is not a national terror group it is an international one the source you have is outdated

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Cotton

In one of the articles above, the locals are saying the leaders of this group are young Mozambiquen Muslim men who returned to the region after they fought with Alshabaab in Somalia.
The authority want some money by saying they returned from Somalia . It’s a probably a local issue . Most foreigners in Alshabab were killed by Ahmed Godane or they were caught trying to escape Somalia into Kenya .
 
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