{"id":5394,"date":"2019-02-20T15:49:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpol.qub.ac.uk\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:49:58","slug":"tracing-the-history-of-mozambiques-mysterious-and-deadly-insurgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/tracing-the-history-of-mozambiques-mysterious-and-deadly-insurgency\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracing the history of Mozambique\u2019s mysterious and deadly insurgency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mozambique\u2019s northern Cabo Delgado province has been held hostage by insurgents for nearly 17 months. Armed attacks, decapitations and the destruction of property have become common<\/a>. Many are worried that the violence may escalate and destabilise the country\u2019s economy further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest problems is that nobody really knows who the insurgents are. They don\u2019t make public statements, so their motives are unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speculation and conspiracy theories abound. Many, including state officials and the new president of the Renamo opposition party<\/a>, believe the insurgency is part of a struggle within the national elite for the control of Cabo Delgado\u2019s oil, gas and mineral riches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government offers few \u2013 and contradictory \u2013 explanations. It has said both that the violence is committed by local unemployed \u201ccriminals\u201d<\/a>, and that the attacks are the result of global jihadism trying to move into Mozambique<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lack of information and clashing explanations have led to confusion as to what\u2019s happening in Northern Mozambique and what should be done to reverse the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article first appeared in The Conversation. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lack of information and clashing explanations have led to confusion as to what\u2019s happening in Northern Mozambique and what should be done to reverse the situation says Dr Eric Morier-Genoud. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2518,"featured_media":5396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"mb":[],"acf":{"authors":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":null,"value":null,"field":{"ID":9774,"key":"field_66d0cbf58f930","label":"Authors","name":"authors","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"relationship","value":null,"menu_order":1,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"post_type":["authors"],"post_status":["publish"],"taxonomy":"","filters":["search"],"return_format":"id","min":0,"max":10,"allow_in_bindings":0,"elements":["featured_image"],"bidirectional":0,"bidirectional_target":[],"_name":"authors","_valid":1}},"description":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":"","value":"","field":{"ID":9776,"key":"field_66d2183027749","label":"Description","name":"description","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"wysiwyg","value":null,"menu_order":3,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"default_value":"","allow_in_bindings":0,"tabs":"all","toolbar":"basic","media_upload":0,"delay":1,"_name":"description","_valid":1}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2019\/02\/cabo-delgado.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_featured_media_url","jetpack_sharing_enabled","amp_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}