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Hio sio mara ya kwanza kwa Total kusimamisha shughuli zao kule, last time walipokuwa harassed na Shabaab, Total waliwapa Mozambican govt condition kwamba ili waendelee Kazi ni lazima wa-establish a security cordon ya at least 25 km radius. But again with the latest attacks it is clear now Serial imeshindwa na inahitaji Masada.Ila baba Total wamesimamisha ujenzi wa LNG Mozambique! Serikali ya Mozambique haichukulii serious swala la ISIS! rais wa Mozambique anatakiwa aombe msaada kutoka SADC ISIS wanajijenga! Ni hatari mpaka kwetu pia kwa jinsi serikali ya Mozambique inavyoendelea kuwa indecisive!
Insurgency: tens of thousands of locals and refugees in the Palma area of Mozambique have fled to the coast and bush to escape the brutal insurgents. This photo was taken in August 2019 in a burned out area in the village of Aldeia da Paz outside Macomia in Cabo Delgado provincePhoto: AFP/SCANPIX
Palma attacks: Total stops work at Mozambique LNG as workers and locals flee brutal assault by Islamist insurgents
Analyst said Mozambique government failed to act on intelligence of imminent attack
28 March 2021 16:23 GMT UPDATED 28 March 2021 16:55 GMT
By Iain Esau
in London
French supermajor Total has suspended work at its liquefied natural gas construction site in northern Mozambique and is evacuating workers amid reports that Islamist insurgents have taken control of the key nearby settlement of Palma, where villagers, refugees and workers were killed.
These apparently well-co-ordinated attacks began on 24 March, just hours after Total and the government agreed to a cautious and gradual return to work at the $20 billion Mozambique LNG project, three months after an evacuation triggered by the insurgents’ first assault on Palma.
The attacks also raise questions about future security in the greater Palma area, with one analyst asking why Mozambique’s government failed to act on intelligence that an assault was imminent.
She claimed that the information was passed on to foreign embassies and the Mozambican government, but the warnings were “ignored".
Speaking on South Africa’s ENCA news channel, she pointed out that 60,000 locals living in the area — as well as expatriate workers — fled the assault with many hiding in the bush or near beaches.
Opperman — who has worked in the intelligence community for decades — said the insurgents succeeded in occupying Palma, just as they did to the south, last year, in Mocimboa da Praia port.
Asked why the Southern African Development Community had not taken action despite years of talks, she described it as “a dinosaur organisation” that only “looks after certain parties’ interests” and has neither the military nor financial capacity to stem the Cabo Delgado insurgency.
Opperman believes only the European Union, US or United Nations have the ability to help resolve the situation, but warned that direct intervention over many years will only happen if Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi approves it.
She said Nyusi’s intransigence on this matter poses “a risk to the region and not just Cabo Delgado".
A report carried by Pinnacle News on Saturday said about 180 people — including expatriate gas workers, who were trapped for three days in the Amarula Palma hotel — were evacuated, but that some died in an ambush after they left.
A convoy of vehicles sent to rescue those who had taken refuge in the hotel was reportedly ambushed.
Dewa Mavhinga, Southern Africa director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), stated: “Al-Shabaab fired on civilians in their homes and on the streets in Palma as they tried to flee for their lives.
"Mozambican authorities should move swiftly to protect civilians and bring all those responsible for abuses to account.”
HRW spoke by phone to seven witnesses to the violence in Palma before telephone lines went down on 24 March.
Separately, HRW and other groups have documented alleged abuses by government security forces and mercenary
Hio sio mara ya kwanza kwa Total kusimamisha shughuli zao kule, last time walipokuwa harassed na Shabaab, Total waliwapa Mozambican govt condition kwamba ili waendelee Kazi ni lazima wa-establish a security cordon ya at least 25 km radius. But again with the latest attacks it is clear now Serial imeshindwa na inahitaji Masada.
Cha ajabu ni kuwa last month US green berets walikuwa deployed eneo la tukio ili kusaidia jeshi la Serikali, then 2 weeks later Shabaab wakafanya ya kwao, inabidi nchi za ki-Afika kuangalia kwa makini hii aina ya misaada ya kijeshi tunayoletewa. soma hio link:
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Kwa upande wa EACOP wameona njia ya ku-sabotage the projects kwa kutumia insurgency haitawezekana ndio wakaja na hii syle yao ya kutumia akina MK254 na her numerous fake NGO's
Halafu SADC ni useless sana.Ila baba Total wamesimamisha ujenzi wa LNG Mozambique! Serikali ya Mozambique haichukulii serious swala la ISIS! rais wa Mozambique anatakiwa aombe msaada kutoka SADC ISIS wanajijenga! Ni hatari mpaka kwetu pia kwa jinsi serikali ya Mozambique inavyoendelea kuwa indecisive!
Insurgency: tens of thousands of locals and refugees in the Palma area of Mozambique have fled to the coast and bush to escape the brutal insurgents. This photo was taken in August 2019 in a burned out area in the village of Aldeia da Paz outside Macomia in Cabo Delgado provincePhoto: AFP/SCANPIX
Palma attacks: Total stops work at Mozambique LNG as workers and locals flee brutal assault by Islamist insurgents
Analyst said Mozambique government failed to act on intelligence of imminent attack
28 March 2021 16:23 GMT UPDATED 28 March 2021 16:55 GMT
By Iain Esau
in London
French supermajor Total has suspended work at its liquefied natural gas construction site in northern Mozambique and is evacuating workers amid reports that Islamist insurgents have taken control of the key nearby settlement of Palma, where villagers, refugees and workers were killed.
These apparently well-co-ordinated attacks began on 24 March, just hours after Total and the government agreed to a cautious and gradual return to work at the $20 billion Mozambique LNG project, three months after an evacuation triggered by the insurgents’ first assault on Palma.
The attacks also raise questions about future security in the greater Palma area, with one analyst asking why Mozambique’s government failed to act on intelligence that an assault was imminent.
In a statement emailed to Upstream, Total said "there are no victims among the staff employed on the site of the project in Afungi" and that it has decided to reduce to "a strict minimum level" the workforce at the site.
"Total’s absolute priority is to ensure the safety and security of the people who work on the project."
The company added that remobilisation of the project that was envisaged at the beginning of the week "is ... now suspended".
"Total trusts the government of Mozambique whose public security forces are currently working to take back the control of the area," said the statement, stressing that it is "monitoring very closely the situation, in conjunction with the authorities and the local teams".
The supermajor expressed "its sympathy and support to the people of Palma, to the relatives of the victims and those affected by the tragic events of the past days".
ACLED analyst Jasmine Opperman said: “This is not a surprise attack. There had been early warnings that Palma was going to be targeted three days (before the attack).”
She claimed that the information was passed on to foreign embassies and the Mozambican government, but the warnings were “ignored".
Speaking on South Africa’s ENCA news channel, she pointed out that 60,000 locals living in the area — as well as expatriate workers — fled the assault with many hiding in the bush or near beaches.
Opperman — who has worked in the intelligence community for decades — said the insurgents succeeded in occupying Palma, just as they did to the south, last year, in Mocimboa da Praia port.
Asked why the Southern African Development Community had not taken action despite years of talks, she described it as “a dinosaur organisation” that only “looks after certain parties’ interests” and has neither the military nor financial capacity to stem the Cabo Delgado insurgency.
Opperman believes only the European Union, US or United Nations have the ability to help resolve the situation, but warned that direct intervention over many years will only happen if Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi approves it.
She said Nyusi’s intransigence on this matter poses “a risk to the region and not just Cabo Delgado".
A report carried by Pinnacle News on Saturday said about 180 people — including expatriate gas workers, who were trapped for three days in the Amarula Palma hotel — were evacuated, but that some died in an ambush after they left.
A convoy of vehicles sent to rescue those who had taken refuge in the hotel was reportedly ambushed.
Dewa Mavhinga, Southern Africa director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), stated: “Al-Shabaab fired on civilians in their homes and on the streets in Palma as they tried to flee for their lives.
"Mozambican authorities should move swiftly to protect civilians and bring all those responsible for abuses to account.”
HRW spoke by phone to seven witnesses to the violence in Palma before telephone lines went down on 24 March.
Separately, HRW and other groups have documented alleged abuses by government security forces and mercenary group Dyck Advisory Group (DAG) — which has been assisting Mozambican forces in Cabo Delgado province — during operations against Al-Shabaab, including excessive use of force, killings, kidnappings, arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of detainees.
Zitamar News reported on Tuesday — the day before the Palma attack — that South Africa’s DAG was due to pull out of Cabo Delgado next month.
Local and international news agencies said the government has revealed little about the attack — apart from a perfunctory confirmation on Thursday — while a lack of mobile telecommunications made it difficult to establish what was going on in Palma.
African Century, a local company that owns real estate in Palma, stated that its team of 19 of its workers and four customers “were successfully rescued on 27 March in the morning under heavy fire” and that “efforts continue to locate the remaining members of our team".
The company said Palma has been without communications since the beginning of the attacks.(Copyright)
Palma attacks: Total stops work at Mozambique LNG as workers and locals flee brutal assault by Islamist insurgents | Upstream
Analyst said Mozambique government failed to act on intelligence of imminent attackwww.upstreamonline.com
Ila wakiacha ISIS itie mizizi itatusumbua maana location ya vitalu vya gesi vya Tanzania na Msumbiji ni pua na mdomo with speed boat wataingia na kufanya uharibifu!Hio sio mara ya kwanza kwa Total kusimamisha shughuli zao kule, last time walipokuwa harassed na Shabaab, Total waliwapa Mozambican govt condition kwamba ili waendelee Kazi ni lazima wa-establish a security cordon ya at least 25 km radius. But again with the latest attacks it is clear now Serial imeshindwa na inahitaji Masada.
Cha ajabu ni kuwa last month US green berets walikuwa deployed eneo la tukio ili kusaidia jeshi la Serikali, then 2 weeks later Shabaab wakafanya ya kwao, inabidi nchi za ki-Afika kuangalia kwa makini hii aina ya misaada ya kijeshi tunayoletewa. soma hio link:
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Kwa upande wa EACOP wameona njia ya ku-sabotage the projects kwa kutumia insurgency haitawezekana ndio wakaja na hii syle yao ya kutumia akina MK254 na her numerous fake NGO's
Wacha kuhara Ijumaa Kuu! Kumbuka SADC haohao walimtimua Museveni na Kagame eastern DRC Congo. Tatizo lipo kwa serikali ya Msumbiji yaani Northern Mozambique ni kama Northern Kenya so much neglected hata mobilization ni challenge! Hiyo EAC unayoongelea Kagame na Museveni hawaongei na pia Kagame na serikali ya Burundi hawaongei na Southern Sudan iko in Coma!Halafu SADC ni useless sana.
Mbona msitume JWTZ mkate pembe za hao vijana wangali bado wanajifunza ugaidi? Msingoje wajifunze kuunda IEDs na explosive vests. Mkate pembe zao sasa hivi. Samaki mkunje angali mbichi.Ila wakiacha ISIS itie mizizi itatusumbua maana location ya vitalu vya gesi vya Tanzania na Msumbiji ni pua na mdomo with speed boat wataingia na kufanya uharibifu!
Kwahiyo unaingia tu territory ya nchi nyingine bila greenlight? It would have made sense if JWTZ was allowed in! see the proximity of Cabo Delgado and Maputo!Mbona msitume JWTZ mkate pembe za hao vijana wangali bado wanajifunza ugaidi? Msingoje wajifunze kuunda IEDs na explosive vests. Mkate pembe zao sasa hivi. Samaki mkunje angali mbichi.
Lakini wanaopinga ni asasi za kijamii ambazo idadi yao 263, zikiwemo baadhi za Uganda, Tanzania na Kenya japo nyingi za Uzunguni, haitakua haki kulaumu hayo mabenki, wao walikua wameridhia kutoa mikopo. Kimsingi ni kushughulkia na kujibu madai yao kitaalam.
Sasa si ungoje mradi wa EACOP uzinduliwe kwanza ndio uanze kujipiga kifua?
Aki nyie kwenye mambo ya pipeline msahau, uncle JPM alishawapiga bao la kisigino, haitakaa mtoboe...Hehehe! Napenda mnavyotupea credit, hivyo ina maana uwezo huo tunao, sikujua GoK ina uwezo wa kucheza high level politics za kwenye kiasi hiki....
Pamoja na kwamba nawahurumia kwa kile kinachotendeka, ila hizo credits zimenikosha kiasi.
Mradi ni wa dola billioni 3 tu.. Gdp ya Tz+UG ni karibu $100b..Waafrika muwache kuhangaika na pesa za wakoloni..Ni Rais kenyatta aliye sema JPM ndiye aliyeonyesha dunia kwamba inchi zinaweza kufanya maendeleo bila mikopo au misaada
Three days ago Russia deployed a very huge column of military hardware to Crimea, things are heating up fast...
Sijajua Russia anapanga kufanya nini dhidi ya Ukraine. Anyway, tutajua tu hivi karibuni.Three days ago Russia deployed a very huge column of military hardware to Crimea, things are heating up fast...
SSH need to be smartHapa ni fitna na wivu tu ya GoK, wanaamini mradi uki delay labda maamuzi baadae yatabadilishwa tena uende Lamu, ni muhimu SSH aende Kampala next month kumalizana na Museveni na kuwapa assurance yote aliyoahidi JPM kuhusu huu mradi yatatekelezwa, akizubaa tu ndio zitaanza story nyingi.
also local content isues are taking place. kila siku tender zinatangazwa. FID is just inches away. hii project ipo haiwezi simamishwa na hao wajinga. TOTAL walinunua visima kutoka Tullow for almost $570 alafu asijenge pipeline, this is insane. what will TOTAL do with almost 6 billion barrels of oil if will not taken to world market.I'm sceptical about the source of this news... the project is on go.
Changamkieni fursa wadau. Hata majirani mkiweza kujipenyeza fursa zipo tele. Mradi mkubwa huu na uwekezaji unagharimu pesa ndefu.
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