Mozambique

Nearly 22,000 people fled their homes in northern Mozambique in a single week last month due to a resurgence in fighting across Cabo Delgado, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday. The surge in displacement in late September marks a turning point in the conflict – now entering its eighth year – with more than 100,000 people already uprooted during 2025.

Insurgents linked to the Islamic State group in northern Mozambique killed four civilians in an attack on the town of Macomia, a local military official and residents told AFP on Monday. Renewed attacks have been reported in recent months in Cabo Delgado province, where the insurgency has been raging since 2017, … .

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Insurgents carried out another attack in the early hours of Monday 22 September in the 30 de Junho neighbourhood on the outskirts of the district capital of Mocímboa da Praia. … The 30 de Junho neighbourhood is largely inhabited by members of the Makonde ethnic group, originally from the interior of Cabo Delgado, who have historically had tense relations with Mocímboa da Praia’s native Mwani community.

The raid on Mocimboa da Praia, around 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of a multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas project operated by French energy giant TotalEnergies, is the latest in a series of attacks in the region in recent weeks. … A local military official said four people were killed. “Mozambican and Rwandan forces responded immediately and they withdrew,” he said.

1 September marked the official first anniversary of EUMAM operations in Mozambique since evolving out of the EU Training Mission Mozambique (EUTM Mozambique). The renamed mission has a 14 million plus Euro budget from the European bloc, which saw it move from a pure training mission to an assistance model, combining advising, mentoring and specialised training for FADM (Forcas Armadas de Defesa de Mozambique) quick reaction force (QRF) units.

Recent attacks by armed groups in northern Mozambique displaced tens of thousands in July alone, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado and straining limited aid supplies. 

[…] The mission aimed to evaluate the security and humanitarian situations in Cabo Delgado, as well as the responses from the government, the region, and international organisations. It sought to provide informed recommendations to both the Mozambican authorities and the African Union to support stabilisation efforts in northern Mozambique.

Personnel detached to EUMAM (the European Union Military Assistance Mission in Mozambique) logged 14 capacity building programmes involving over 450 FADM (Forcas Armadas de Defesa de Mozambique) personnel during the first half of 2025. 

The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday released a report claiming that Islamic State-linked militants from the regional Islamist terror group al-Shabab have kidnapped at least 120 children in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province since the start of the year.