{"id":236121,"date":"2026-06-12T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-how-cabo-delgados-riches-became-fuel-for-the-islamist-insurgency-in-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:39:15","slug":"mozambique-how-cabo-delgados-riches-became-fuel-for-the-islamist-insurgency-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-how-cabo-delgados-riches-became-fuel-for-the-islamist-insurgency-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: How Cabo Delgado&#8217;s Riches Became Fuel for the Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\"><em> For almost a decade, an Islamist group has terrorised Mozambique&#8217;s northern province of Cabo Delgado. Despite vast reserves of rubies, timber and natural gas, the region remains the country&#8217;s poorest. This first instalment of Mozambique Exposed &#8211; an investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories to which RFI contributed &#8211; examines how exploitation of the region&#8217;s wealth, corruption and alleged abuses by security forces helped fuel the insurgency. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Rainy season had already begun in 2017 when&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost a decade, an Islamist group has terrorised Mozambique&#8217;s northern province of Cabo Delgado. Despite vast reserves of rubies, timber and natural gas, the region remains the country&#8217;s poorest. This first instalment of Mozambique Exposed &#8211; an investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories to which RFI contributed &#8211; examines how exploitation of the region&#8217;s wealth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00480703:42e50b5fb9f150490e1ec23541a55595:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,13157,49645,7570,21072,357,4704,682,257,52623,254],"class_list":["post-236121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cabo","tag-delgados","tag-fuel","tag-insurgency","tag-islamist","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-riches","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00480703:42e50b5fb9f150490e1ec23541a55595:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}