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Growing confidence of ASWJ militants presages increasingly sophisticated attacks over expanded area of operations in Mozambique s Cabo Delgado
14 December 2020
Growing confidence of ASWJ militants presages increasingly sophisticated attacks over expanded area of operations in Mozambique s Cabo Delgado
by Heather Nicell
At least 25 soldiers were killed and 15 others were wounded during an ambush by Islamist militants in the village of Matambalale in Muidumbe district in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province on 29 November. Although at the time of writing no group claimed responsibility for the attack, the perpetrators are likely to be from Ahlu Sunna wal-Jamaa (ASWJ), a local non-state armed group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in July 2019 and which operates under the latter’s Wilayat Wasat Afriqiyya, or Central Africa Province. The ambush marks the deadliest attack targeting security forces in the province, recorded by