1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated July 28, 2021Insurgency in Northern Mozambique: Nature and ResponsesAn armed Islamist insurgency in Mozambiquelaunched in 2017 with an attack on several police posts in Cabo Delgado province, in the countrys northhas burgeoned. The insurgency and state securit
2、y responses to it have resulted in many serious human rights abuses and killings, widespread social trauma and property destruction, and massive population displacements, creating a complex humanitarian crisis. Insurgent attacks also have prompted the French energy firm Total to declare force majeur
3、e and suspend a $20 billion, partially U.S. government-financed natural gas processing project, one of several major projects designed to tap large gas fields discovered offshore in 2010. The insurgents, locally dubbed Al Shabaab (“the youth,” also the name of a separate Al Qaeda-linked Somali group
4、), also are known as Ahlu Sunna Wa-Jamo (“Adherents of the Sunnah” or ASWJ; spellings vary) and by other names. In 2019, ASWJ reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS), which often claims and lauds the groups attacks and counts it as a member of its IS Central Afric
