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Did you know that, all throughout sub-Saharan Africa—in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo—Muslims have for many years been terrorizing and slaughtering Christians? Nor is there any hope on the horizon: problems that cannot be honestly addressed are doomed to persist in perpetuity.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Sunday it received $41 million in funding from the U.S. government for emergency aid in Mozambique. The WFP also said the United States is buying 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine for shipment to African countries facing drought and starvation.

PARIS — Marat Gabidullin's face is lined from years of exposure to the elements, and his hair is thinning. But at 56, he has the trim physique and muscular arms of a man 30 years younger. He wears a chunky ring bearing the image of a skull.The skull is the symbol of the Wagner Group — a private Russian mercenary force believed to be financed by an oligarch with close ties to President Vladimir Putin. The group is fighting alongside the Russian army in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. And it's widely believed that at least some of the "little green...

Health authorities in Mozambique declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus on May 18, 2022 after confirming that a child in the north-eastern Tete province had contracted the disease. This marks the second imported case of wild poliovirus in southern Africa this year, following an outbreak in Malawi in mid-February 2022, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said in a press release. The lone case so far, is the country's first since 1992. Genomic sequencing analysis indicates that the newly confirmed case is linked to a strain that was circulating in Pakistan in 2019, similar to the case...

* Killing reportedly took place in the country's gas-rich province Cabo Delgado * Suspected ISIS-linked extremists ordered the pastor's wife to deliver his head * 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, killing at least 3,340 people and displacing more than 800,000Suspected ISIS-linked extremists have decapitated a Christian pastor before handing his severed head to his wife to show authorities in Mozambique. The killing, reported by local news, took place in the country's gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado. Last Wednesday,...

The US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other nearby countries from next week as fears grow over the new COVID-19 Omicron variant, the White House said Friday. The travel ban, which doesn’t apply to American citizens or permanent residents, will come into effect from Monday. The new restrictions apply to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.

A huge seismic event that started in May of 2018 and was felt across the entire globe has officially given birth to a new underwater volcano. Off the eastern coast of the island of Mayotte, a gigantic new feature rises 820 meters (2,690 feet) from the seafloor, a prominence that hadn't been there prior to an earthquake that rocked the island in May 2018. French governmental institutions sent a research team to check it out; there, sure enough, was an undersea mountain that hadn't been there before. Led by geophysicist Nathalie Feuillet of the University of Paris in France, the...

ISIS is “evolving into a new beast” in order to strike the West, a Brit who fought the terrorist group has warned. Macer Gifford chucked in his job as a currency trader in the City in 2015 and went to Syria to fight the Islamist extremists alongside Kurdish forces. He warned that despite the collapse of the Caliphate and the loss of almost all its territory ISIS still posed “as much of a threat today” as they went about recruiting fighters. His chilling warning comes as fanatics attempt to build a new Caliphate in Africa. Gifford told Express.co.uk: “I certainly...

Last month, at least 50,000 people fled the Mozambican town of Palma following an Islamist attack on the town that left dozens of people dead. It took the Mozambique army supported by a private military contractor nearly two weeks to reclaim the town. An Amnesty International report released on Thursday said White contractors were given priority over local Black people during a rescue operation at a hotel in Palma when the attacks by an armed group known locally as al-Shabab began in March. The report compiled accounts of 11 Black civilians who were present at the Amarula Hotel during evacuation....

There's medical first aid. And then there's psychological first aid: an eight-step approach to help people who've been through trauma. It's part of the mission of the Doctors Without Borders staff to help the tens of thousands fleeing the northern city of Palma, ravaged by civil unrest.They are often reeling from what they've seen — helplessly watching as family and friends were publicly beheaded or shot and their homes burned to the ground. Many of those who escaped and made the trek to the city of Montepuez came across the bodies of others who had been killed or died from...

THE bodies of 12 beheaded expats have been found tied up under a mango tree in northern Mozambique after they tried to to flee an ISIS massacre. Dozens of innocent people, including children, were ruthlessly killed when terrorist militants went on the rampage in the key industrial town of Palma. Pedro da Silva, commander of the police station in the nearby village of Quitunda, said the bodies of the expats had since been buried in a mass grave, according to reports. "In total there were 12. They were all foreigners, I don’t know what nationality, but they were all white,"...

AFRICA is set to become the new frontline in the war against ISIS, experts have warned in the wake of the Mozambique bloodbath. An attack on foreign contractors attempting to flee the town of Palma after coming under attack has left at least 50 people dead with Brit Phil Mawer among those missing. Gunmen opened fire on 17 vehicles carrying workers building a complex for French oil giant Total trying to flee a hotel and break through their lines SAS troops have deployed to Mozambique to hunt for Mr Mawer, who is in his 50s and from Somerset, and they...

LARGE swathes of Africa could be lost to Jihadist groups unless the West signi cantly increases its efforts on the continent, it was warned last night. It follows revelations of a 30 percent spike in violent activity by Islamic State over the last twelve months, as the group gains new and permanent footholds after its expulsion from Syria and Iraq. The solution, experts say is not military action, such as the beleaguered French-led operation in Mali or the parallel and castrated peacekeeping mission - officially the UN’s bloodiest - but rather the type of counter-propaganda efforts being led by Britain,...

Brit Contractor Uses Gun to Save Lives During ISIS Attack in Mozambique, iStock-1220532981 On Wednesday, 24 March, a force estimated to be between 100 and several hundred Islamic terrorists attacked the Mozambique city of Palma, which is on the coast of East Africa, in the north of Mozambique, near the Tanzanian border. Palma has bout 75,000 residents.The Islamic State (ISIS) in Africa has been growing, according to a U.S. official. From iol.co.za: The US Department of State’s acting special envoy for the global coalition to defeat ISIS, John Godfrey, told reporters the attack was in line with what has been...

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a town in northern Mozambique last week that forced hundreds of foreign contractors to flee amid fierce fighting. Local police and soldiers were reported to have secured control of most of Palma on Monday, after hundreds of Islamist insurgents who overran the small port last week withdrew to surrounding forests and fields leaving a trail of devastation. In a statement issued on official media channels, the Islamic State claimed insurgents killed more than 55 members of local security forces and Christians, including those from “Crusader nations”, and destroyed official buildings...

Seven people have died after trying to escape a hotel in Mozambique, according to reports. Updated 3 hours ago An attack by Islamist militants in northern Mozambique has seen seven die after a siege on a local hotel and dozens more have lost their lives after hundreds of militants stormed the town. Militants believed to be linked to the Islamic State (IS) group are behind the attack which has also seen shops, banks and military barracks targeted. The BBC has reported how seven people were killed while trying to escape the Amaarula Hotel, including locals and foreigners working nearby. A...

Last week, Human Rights Watch quoted witnesses in the city as saying they saw bodies on the streets and that militants were firing indiscriminately at people and buildings. "Al-Shabab fired on civilians in their homes and on the streets in Palma, as they tried to flee for their lives," Dewa Mavhinga, Southern Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said. He called on Mozambique to protect civilians "and bring all those responsible for abuses to account." The Cabo Delgado LNG project has been a recurring concern due to the fragile security situation in the region. Paris-based Total had to shut down...

A BRAVE Brit contractor shot dead two ISIS militants with an AK47 during the Mozambique massacre and then hid out in the jungle. Nick Alexander, a dual British-South African citizen, spent two nights crawling through the bush with colleagues before being rescued at the weekend. The former cop was at the back of a convoy of expats that came under heavy fire from militants on Friday evening, reports the Times. Mr Alexander, a contractor building camps for gas workers in Africa, has since made contact with his daughter Jayde, 29, in Johannesburg. “He saw the commotion with the ambush ahead...

When 73-year old Gayle Meyer was being held against her will at the Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington on January 29th the call went out for people to show up at the hospital in her support. Dozens did and then police showed up in riot gear by the dozens as well. Meyer was then released by the hospital but afterwards the Clark County Sheriff's Department claimed that they faced a heavily armed group that was threatening. Clark County Sheriff's Detective Tonya Johnson has signed probable cause arrest warrants against four people in the matter including Meyer's daughter...

ercenaries in helicopters plucked survivors from body-strewn beaches and streets in northern Mozambique yesterday after a convoy of foreign contractors was attacked as it tried to flee Islamist militants. Dozens of expatriates were killed or left missing in an ambush outside their hotel compound in the strategic hub of Palma, close to Africa’s biggest gas project. Last night relatives of those unaccounted for were struggling to discover their fate. There was anger about the lack of an effective evacuation plan amid repeated warnings that Palma was a target for insurgents in Cabo Delgado province who have become increasingly well-equipped and...