This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to researcher and writer

Lucas Weber he's going to be talking about the situation in Mozambique

concerning ISIS and the way they're affecting

the whole world in a way because they've been causing a big disruption to the

maritime situation between Mozambique and Madagascar that's a very big

shipping route through there it's an interesting situation there are now

private military contractors and special forces from various different countries

all around that area trying to stop this lot. If you like what we're doing

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Before we get into the situation with the maritime stuff maybe just for those I don't know explain

ISIS in Mozambique if you like how do they get a foothold there?

To understand these kind of dimensions it's important to look at how

the insurgency started and then the ice slinks formed from there. So just to give a background, since the

uncertainty began in 2017, over three or about 3,000 people have died and 3 quarters of a million have been displaced.

And it's produced a considerable humanitarian crisis. The conflict is mostly taking place in northern

Mozambique in Cabo del Gato. Since it began in 2017,

has been escalating, basically,

marked by a series of significant operations I guess.

So the organization itself they're known locally as El Shabab and the consensus is that they have their origins in a religious sect and a movement that kind of began or at least

manifested in the late 2000s.

In the sect came into conflict with the government and religious organizations, which they saw as basically arms of the state.

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