Why northern Mozambique’s surging violence is worsening displacement crisis
Mozambique government has begun a two-day forum to discuss the future of displaced people in the country as a devastating armed conflict in the northern Cabo Delgado region enters its ninth year.
Renewed clashes between the Mozambican army and allied forces on the one hand, and al-Shabab or Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) on the other, since late 2025 have worsened an ongoing humanitarian disaster.
Since 2017, resource-rich northern Mozambique has battled an ISIL-affiliated armed group, known locally as al-Shabab, but which has no affiliation with the Somali armed group of the same name.
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