Mozambique jihadi violence spreads despite military effort

In this image made from video, a Rwandan policeman, right, and Mozambican military, left, patrol near the Amarula Palma hotel in Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Fleeing beheadings, shootings, rapes, and kidnappings, nearly 1 million people are displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique. [AP Photo/Marc Hoogsteyns, File]

The five-year wave of jihadi violence in Cabo Delgado province has killed more than 4,000 people and scuppered international investments worth billions of dollars.

In a sprawl of dilapidated tents and thatched huts around Nanjua, a small town in the southern part of Cabo Delgado province, several hundred families are seeking safety from the violence. They say their conditions are bleak and food assistance is meagre but they're afraid to return home because of continuing violence by the rebels who are now going by the name Islamic State Mozambique Province.