 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Killing reportedly took place in the country's gas-rich province Cabo Delgado
... known for coal and ruby mines, natural gas, and jihad...
- Police said the widow arrived to the local police headquarters last Wednesday
- Cabo Delgado province has been rocked by attacks by ISIS-linked militants since 2017,
| ...since 2018 known formally as Islamic State West Africa Province-Mozambique (ISCAP), informally as Al Shabaab (the youths). They appeared in Mozambique in 2015, calling themselves Ansar al-Sunna (supporters of the tradition), more formally as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamah (ASWJ, adepts of the prophetic tradition). Led by Abu Yasir Hassan (also known as Yaseer Hassan and Abu Qasim), the 40-ish Tanzanian religious leader moved between Mocimboa da Praia and jihadis in the Congo until 2015, when Tanzania authorities think he he died, though the Americans strongly disagree. They hired members of Somali Al Shabaab (linked to Al Qaeda) to train them in jihadi skills, explaining the local nickname. Al Shabaab-Mozambique funds itself through heroin, contraband, ivory, raiding, and selling the local girls into slavery... |
killing at least 3,340 people and displacing more than 800,000
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