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A spate of attacks in rural northeastern Mozambique has set the region on edge. Beheadings, IED attacks, and a growing economic marginalization of a muslim community in a region soon to be flooded with oil wealth has combined into the early signs of a major insurgency. ADR’s JOHN STUPART speaks with GABRIELLE REID, sub-Saharan African expert and an Associate at S-RM Inform, a global political risk organization, on the violence in Mozambique, and what it means going forward.

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Written by Richard Stupart

Richard Stupart is part of the ADR team.