Good afternoon. Last week saw a milestone which the government would prefer never to have reached: the first attack by Islamic State-backed insurgents in Nampula province for over a year and a half, as we reported yesterday. Local people clearly believe that the insurgents intend to press further into the province: some have fled from Memba district, which borders the frontier district of Eráti where last week’s attacks took place, including from the village of Chipene, where in 2022 a Catholic mission was attacked and a nun killed.
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