Mozambique: Police Officers Missing Following Terrorist Attack

Maputo — An unspecified number of police officers from the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR – the Mozambican riot police) are reported missing following an attack believed to have been carried out by Islamist terrorists last week on a gold mining camp in the Nairoto administrative post, in Montepuez district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.

According to sources cited by the independent newsheet “Carta de Moçambique’, the raiders set fire to various mining equipment, as well as…