Good afternoon. Only the waters of the Lúrio river separate the district of Chiúre in Cabo Delgado province and the district of Memba in Nampula province. However, they might as well be in different countries when you consider how different the military and civilian response has been to insurgents attacks in the two districts.
When insurgents attacked Memba recently, burning homes and churches and killing a handful of civilians, they may have been surprised to find armed forces chasing them as they made their way back to Cabo Delgado. Such a rapid response from the security forces is uncommon.
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What happened next was even less common. The provincial governor, Eduardo Abdula, came to visit the Alua administrative post in Eráti district, where about 80,000 people from Memba have taken refuge from the insurgent attacks. Abdula stayed the night there and arranged for 60 tonnes of food to be delivered. He has also been coordinating the wider humanitarian response to the attack.
