Good afternoon. Is President Chapo turning towards a new strategy to try and end the conflict in Cabo Delgado? In remarkable comments made to broadcaster Al Jazeera this weekend, he said plainly that the end of the conflict would come through negotiation, meaning that the government needs to sit down with the insurgents and talk.
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Last week, as we noted in our last newsletter, Chapo admitted that the conflict is not going well, from the government perspective. That is putting things lightly. Even since then, insurgents have attacked the town of Macomia, and are active in different cells across Cabo Delgado province. A military offensive in Macomia and Mocímboa da Praia districts may have yielded some results — the military is slower to publicise its successes than the insurgents are — but it also appears to have made space for, or provoked, more insurgent activity.
