Mozambique: In Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado, Extraction and Insurgency Without End

Metuge District, Cabo Delgado — ‘If this war could have an end, I would go back and restart my life there with my children.’

Mozambicans go to the polls tomorrow in presidential and legislative elections that are almost certain to extend the ruling Frelimo party’s half century in power, despite its inability to end a long-running Islamist insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

The extreme violence of so-called Islamic State in Mozambique, known locally as al-Shabab, has forced…