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The ISIS news agency Amaq has released a video showing the wreckage of a Gazelle helicopter that crashed in the area of the Quirimbas Islands to the north of Pemba on April 10.
#Mozambique l’#EI affirme avoir « descendu en hélicoptère dans la région de #Quisanga #CaboDelgado » pic.twitter.com/WAhlY6gAIO
— Wassim Nasr (@SimNasr) April 20, 2020
According to reports, the helicopter, which was allegedly operated by private military contractors, crashed as a result of small arms fire by militants.
During the past months, ISIS terrorists have drastically increased their activity in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. Terrorists carried out a series of successful attacks temporairly capturing several villages and capturing a lot of weapons. In own turn, government forces seem to be unable to properly react to the threat and contain the growth of the terrorist threat.
If the situation develops in this direction and further, there are significant chances that the terrorists will be able to seize at least a part of the province and consolidate control over it.
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To me Pemba is a part of Tanzania.
And yes its very normal private contractors defend their activities, where they are, because the Goverments are not able too.
Its sometimes is very few gurads and sometimes almost like armies. They has to.
Tanzania should help out, eventually it will spill into tz…. I don’t think maagufuli will stand for this shit when it does….
Tanzania is AfriCom – that’s ISIS…
More like Corona against Pest to me…
If true I think the should. But isnt Pemba and Zanzibar autonomes. Most muslims in Tanzania are there and on their coastline.
I am sure the almost dictatorship of Tanzania dont like Jihadists at all.
Idk but over here that alqaeda stuff is seen as Arab , there’s always a mosque somewhere financed by the some Arab nation that preaches jihad but that only flourishes in countries where the government neglects its people. Tanzania is very fiscally responsible , even more now thanks to their new president, not fertile ground for jihad. Tbh , I’m ignorant of Mozambique maybe Tanzanian Muslim extremists saw fertile ground there, it is poorer afterall
Well South Africa used to have good mercenaries. But they’re all like 70 years old now!