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Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province fighting

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  • 10-11-2020 3:12pm
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    biko
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    A group in northern Mozambique that linked themselves to Islamic State has killed 50 people on a local soccer pitch.

    It seems the IS group have carried out attacks in the province since 2017 and are recruiting youth from the deprived northern areas, a classic communist move that now seems to have been re-used by Islamists.

    Islamists raided Nanjaba village on Friday night.
    Villagers who tried to flee were caught, and taken to the local football pitch where they were beheaded and chopped to pieces in an atrocity carried out from Friday night to Sunday.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54877202
    https://www.iiss.org/blogs/analysis/2020/06/csdp-isis-militants-africa

    ISIS is growing in Africa and with them the inevitable murders, incredible suffering.
    It also means boat immigrants may contain sleeper IS wannabe's coming to Europe as refugees, something we have seen recently in France and Austria.

    How do we fix it? By handling the problem before it creates refugees.
    Make poor Africans a better offer than becoming Islamists and killing their neighbours.
    What that offer is - up for debate.


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    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I wonder how the people of Mozambique provoked them? Isn't that what we ask in Europe?


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    Das Reich
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    Mozambique is this mess now because the pressure on Portugal by other European countries that wanted Portugal to decolonize. It was some of the best places in Africa before 500.000 "unwanted people" (whites) had to leave in 1975.


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    cnocbui
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    Coming soon, to a street near you. Unless of course you live in France, in which case it already has.


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    imme
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    Das Reich wrote: »
    Mozambique is this mess now because the pressure on Portugal by other European countries that wanted Portugal to decolonize. It was some of the best places in Africa before 500.000 "unwanted people" (whites) had to leave in 1975.

    No.

    The indigenous people would be better off if the white European overlords were still in charge?

    No.

    Portugal was one of the worst colonisers, witness the poor level of education for indigenous people in their colonies.

    Switzerland got more under the Marshall Plan than Portugal.
    Portugal was in poor shape right through until the Carnation Revolution.

    They weren't forced by anyone other than the expense to retreat from Mozambique.


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