Mozambique President Wants Attackers in Gas Region ‘Neutralized’
- President makes first comments about attacks in Cabo Delgado
- Human Rights Watch says 39 people have been killed since May
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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi condemned a spate of attacks on villages in the gas-rich north of the country and called for the perpetrators to be “neutralized.”
The attacks have raised risks for investors developing more than $30 billion of gas projects off the coastal Cabo Delgado province. Researchers said the raids have been carried out by a group known as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama, composed of local people as well as citizens of neighboring Tanzania, which wants Islamic law introduced in the region.