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facing i still threaten northern was the leaders in southern africa. possible till deployment but is regional intervention and does i still have a new foothold in southern africa this is the inside story. hello welcome to the program. was a big scene a rise in attacks across northern region in recent months dozens of people were

killed when i say linked fighters raided a hotel in the northern town of palma last month. that 12 of the victims possibly a fine as were beheaded during the siege the attack prompted southern african leaders to hold emergency talks and come up with a response of the growing crisis well bring in august short of this report from reality. follicle for the struggle was evident when islamic state fighters invaded the town of palma in march this hotel was raided too a police officer said he found the reception overturned and rooms littered with victims clothing if you saw that i'm assuming that's where that is most people were murdered this is a hotel that hosted many foreigners at the time of the attack many foreigners thought it was the best place to find protection so they ran here because they had security but the insurgents were stronger they broke into the hotel and took 12 citizens of different nationalities were tied them up and beheaded them for o'mara

showing journalists around the hotel he points to a patch of earth he said he buried the bodies here himself. this is only the latest offensive by eisel linked groups in mozambique and what has become an especially violent month in a coordinated attack insurgent seized pama this coastal town that lies close to a multi $1000000000.00 liquid neutral gas project it's crucial for the mozambican economy the assault claimed dozens of lives while the u.n. says more than $11000.00 were forced to flee. the northern province of kabul delgado has seen an encrease in fighting since 2017 some believe ice a link fighters are trying to establish a caliphate here but regional leaders say they won't let that happen the recent attacks in the toppling of palma have recently demonstrated the magnitude of the problem at i want to steps on thursday a delegation of 16 southern african countries met to discuss the latest violence in

mozambique the southern african development community or s. a d.c. is charged with finding a solution to the unrest. in a tweet the president of zimbabwe said the summit agreed that the se d.c. force should be resuscitated and capacitated immediately so that it can intervene the violent escalation of an insurgency in the north of the country has sparked fresh concerns about security in southern africa a region that has enjoyed relative stability and recent decades but with these recurring attacks hope is scattered hard in al-jazeera let's take a closer look at the fall and possible resurgence of ice will the armed group was largely defeated in iraq and syria by the u.n. was nearly 10000 fighters remain active in the region but iceland has found a new lifeline impasse of africa by forging alliances with local armed groups

according to the u.s. defense department violence associated with those groups rose by 43 percent last year and the number of a task planned by isis across africa drawn by more than a 3rd. for more on this joined by our guests in london joseph holland visiting fellow of the london school of economics and author of several books on muslim big including a decade of politics economy and society to 1004 to 2013 the robot no for our board executive director of the nordic center for conflict transformation in swanzy in the ok i'm unsure whether to be any research fellow for george washington university program on extremism was welcome to the program joseph do we know of these people locally known as a man who are now at the center of this insurgency in the northern part of

mozambique. yes i mean there are local people and then he in the recent attack on. they were identified in some cases as being known to local people and the war started in 2017 it's about inequality it's about exclusion it's about not benefiting from the resource wealth from the rubies from the gas and people feeling that their remark generalized and especially young people feeling that they had no future and so they initially became part of an islamist separatist sect that simply wanted to separate out locally but then what happened was that the government and other muslim leaders wanted to attack that and so they felt they had to attack the government and so they began

an insurgency against the government and what was interesting is over the next couple of years they got huge local support. so suddenly we had quite a large war ok do you think that that demands would be confined to the social konami grievances all the likely to further expand that into ideology and say we want to establish a caliphate of our own in this part of the weld. yes. for the gift of wasn't being it has to be linked to influence with your historical. circumstances of the country however there are indications in which says that it's not only about the inequalities and it's also economic issues that the locals are to live in in but also 1st of all is that the. government is unlikely to sustain a military presence in a few areas such as for example do couple got away at the extremists are being

established and also out of there are security deficiencies but also that the land now with the conflict that is in it is almost going to be declared as. no man's land and that is very favorable to terrorist organizations and the combination with locals the 2nd thing is another point is that the. there will be some legitimate grievances even we've been discomfit on going because of the excessive. retaliation of the government upon the people before we got into with more details into exactly what happened in kabul to gargle and the palmer i want to. include a man i meant do we know what links do these people have with islamic states are they an affiliate is a genuine umbrella organization that is affiliated to them or is it blown out of

proportion by other people. that's a good question and the fact that the islamic state officially advertises on a regular basis. the operations carried out by these insurgents in mozambique shows that there is some kind of link it doesn't necessarily mean that there's a command in controlling live what you might call islamic state central iraq in syria where they would give directives on how to can give resides guidance on conducting the surgeons. but the bag is the gear the operations of these group of these incentives in mozambique mainly appear on in the news letter of islamic state in the i'm not news outlet of islamic state so there is some kind of communication going on and. also these incisions in mozambique become into what is called the islamic state central africa province although just

a nicki southern africa are not central africa. but nonetheless the bag they've been elevated within the stages of the. prophet so-called that these are mixtape shows clearly there is an ideological link and it's a genuine ideological link so i would actually reiterate what the previous guest said about the. very are the local grievances and these duty to be taken into account on the other hand there is a very clear ideological it now to these dynamics state was this didn't emerge in a vacuum it it was so it had been on the ground beef years now with a ship that fundamentalists preaching and so joseph you spoke earlier about the disenfranchisement of the people there and this is an area particularly where there got away in 2910 the government said where there will be depositions and where they're not all liquefied natural gas it's going to be the moment to transform.

the country into ways of wealth that didn't happen could it be that the insurgents or the armed groups are tapping into that sense of fadia of the government and saying our demands are legitimate because we have been abandoned by our own elite. oh yes that's the whole point but i want to go back to the previous statement isis has not had any contact with al shabaab for almost a year if you go back and look they were there was a link. that in may or june of last week was broken last year sorry was broken and i says he stopped making claims about the victories and if you look at the recent claim on houma it's entirely fake news and the 40 the pictures that they used and the videos that they used were from

a similar prior year so the of the isis claim was totally fake and what it indicates in fact is the lack of contact because they could not yet current information on what the insurgents were doing because the insurgents weren't talking to them and one of the reasons the insurgents weren't talking to them is because one of the changes that took place again last year is that the 1st thing they do when they go into an area is they cut the telephone lines and this is very simple stuff it's machetes going through fiber optic cables but the raid the the raid started at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and by 430 all the telephone links were down and there have been no telephone links except by satellite phones which the insurgents don't appear to have and so what happened is that isis literally had to fake that report and i think the very nature of that claim shows that isis isn't

involved anymore ok and that we should be seeing this as a province of isis this is local insurgents are said we're not interested in isis any more they didn't do it's any good no for the what would isis or the islamic states gain from the fun size in a southern offical when isis has historically been established in its own a safe haven as in the middle east particularly in syria and iraq with a totally different set of narratives about who they are and what they would like to achieve when you see that particular message itself is blurred in a way or another when it comes to africa in particular. exactly we know how to operate absolute up raced through what i can call it a vacuum. the media vacuum or governance that what the curative racket

so in terms of the media back and everybody with focus in on a cop in 19. wasn't big news was not out there and of course you know we have been seeing some movements from might have to be trying to be ok somewhere else that or to become something of. an hour they're trying to come into big where it is and there are some and it's also. you know share the same opinion is that it is some kind of marriage of convenience a marriage but convenience between the locals insurgent and i and some member i so i'm not looking for the games was there before now but what they're looking for any perception that we would have been defeated in iraq and syria but we are growing and going somewhere else that is very important to some of the point that might use these that demo going to understand country they're going to be critically injured

and they are not they're also going to a coastal country and it's very symbolic that they're trying to hold on you know where they are controlling a port so the memories of convenience between her and ice is very important what i meant when resupply and what it has become almost impossible to identify has when it comes to armed groups operating in africa those affiliated with al qaida those are the data with the islamic state there's all this talk about the islamic state in west africa islamic state in the sun has an extensive africa islamic state in the southern part of africa but when you look at the chain of the command it doesn't really make sense because when you see the way i see it has been operating in syria and iraq it was a toll. in a different mindset totally different mccann ism that is truly defined extent. really is as it were indigenous to iraq. and lesser extent

in syria. where it actually achieved the height of success in 2014 of so-called concept of 10 key establishing control administrative land they never actually really had she. never really been able to achieve that level of success they had in iraq in syria in any of the external provinces or just a problem they caught sight of the discourse like libya sinai libya only briefly per tiny. 221516. but you know these are places like mozambique. congo west africa yes it's not the same level our days and there isn't this level of change but i would stress the ideological angle that it. is there is success so safe with 3 big energy companies operating any accent and total do you see the potential for greater international

intervention from not all words all i think so but i think that it is the isis or i see a link that becomes important because if you believe the united states if you believe there's no i saw a link. then that will encourage countries to send troops if you treat this is simply a local insurgency then who cares it's just another local civil war so that's part of it the other thing is that exxon mobil has already said it's not interested gas is a is a family resource everywhere in the world and so any has a small project which is running ahead which will start next year total was going to produce some gas probably in 5 years but had started were i think the attacks raise questions about whether any more of this project will go ahead as a whole so i think that the what's on the table is perhaps that is not going to

happen now i think total will want foreign military on the ground to protect them. but whether that will happen whether mozambique will accept i don't know. no for whatever happens next is going to be an extremely delicate task for the international community and the southern african countries because if they are to deploy troops they might be widely seen as one of the foreigners operating in a different territory if you are to bring about other formulas in might it might backfire the same way it backfire in places like this region with the massive weaponry that was put into place by the armed groups are still operating there yes so what is interesting 1st of all is to that when we see a terrorist organization operating in somewhere we have seen decreases operations in the sahara region for instance and i had indicated somewhere somehow that there

is some kind of cordon a ship between some groups in that's a hail and a group in doing. what can be done you know where mozambique was very good in the war the violent conflicts nor the civil war the relapse of conflict sense of what the problem was actually to sustain peace and this is going to be your piece this time indication or it will be exactly what other. is in relation to the grievances of the micro-level a lot of. it's you will be very interesting to observe what's going on isn't it with what's going on in wouldn't be a member however when you look at the political elite in mozambique they're fairly more party which has been in power since 1970. fire is why does seen as corrupt disconnected from reality and whatever happens in the near future even with all the forces that it can bring about it's not going to make any difference

to the local people who see themselves. abandoned by their own government. i agree of that. as long as the local even says that they will help if you will. if you will these searches by recruitment ground for it. regardless of the issue of ideology which as i've said before i do think shouldn't be downplayed. but yes long as you have this issue of the. corruption and divide that taboo delgado's certain margin light problems. in the context of mozambique it all sort of you know how to provide fuel the insurgency continue in the future even if you did have large scale or need to venture out to help the mozambican forces ok chose if this is what is going to happen in the near future total exxon mobil and any are

saying that they only operate if coverdale gather becomes a green zone with a korea door which is on the buffer zone and presence of sophistic sophisticated weaponry there to prevent any further attacks by the group if that does not happen they were put out when the put out the billions of dollars that were offered to the government won't be there which is going to bring the country to a disaster. it won't bring the country into a disaster because the whole point of the insurgency is none of the benefit of the gas was going through our nerve people anyway but the other point is that the bonanza that was promise was based on producing literally a 100000000 tons a year of like what 5 natural gas. the most we're likely to get at the moment is 16000000 tonnes years so there's been a huge reduction there's not going to be great amounts of money and that will be

siphoned off by the elite so most somebody is already not going to benefit very much from the gas and that's not going to solve the war exxon mobil isn't worrying about security at the moment they're worrying about global markets and they've sent in the queue of gas project mozambicans very low now so we only have total and total and so far only committed to this one piece all right so that you're not going to get a gas bonanza going to happen i have if you miss him enough and if you don't mind very briefly could africa has become the new frontier for groups like al qaida and i said after losing their ground in yemen and in syria and iraq and potentially using energy as their next platform to further expand their political influence how very big question and i just want to add one to 1st of all the other bills are it's

yes yes it's not the only resort there are still out there some and that's where it's also the foreground. security 2nd thing is that what what is going on in africa shows that for every country there should be organics that lucius do it. from of course on security perspective you could be some kind of africa kind of reaction but every country needs to find organic solutions to their own problems and i think if there was only one piece here we should stop. ayman do you see the african union stepping in and trying to clean up the mess in the continent because suddenly it is how he has to deal with a huge programs in different parts of the continent right we seen the same problems play out of somalia for example and also in the sato that. all the foreign interventions try to help local government forces maintain security . but. i don't really see

a significant net games in that in the in the long term. i think there's a risk of overreach. the same the same way out in mozambique i would actually just and do i don't see african nester into the new center jihadist. groups i got i did i did some extent still md very much iraq syria yemen those areas. not and also well into the style region but not afterwards all that being see you yeah you global sector to joseph with focus on i said with a focus on what is happening in was a big but we need to ask a question about the political establishment in power in mozambique for almost 50 years don't you think that they top priority should be now genuine political reforms in the country itself for the country to be able to be immune from such

problems in the northern part i would support that entirely the question is how do you do it the international community only wants to invest in mozambique to make a profit from the gas. all the international community has dropped its governance from their list of priorities they wanted. so there's no pressure on the mozambique you need to change they figure they can tough it out they can keep with these resources and they don't see any reason to change either even with the war yeah because this is a very fascinating thing because when you go to the african union some is this talking about silent guns the need to combat extremism and poverty and tackle the issues of environment and cycles of drought however when it comes to tackling the assistant issue of corruption mismanagement of public funds that's where they have been lagging far behind joseph and the no for a mentor was it to me a reader appreciate your insights and thank you for watching you can see the

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