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From Our Own Correspondent

Mozambique: the birth of a new conflict

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

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4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In Mozambique, the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado may have become the latest outpost of the so-called Islamic State insurgency, with reports of massacres and beheadings. The area is rich in precious gemstones and has huge natural gas reserves, but the local people are poor and increasingly have to flee. Andrew Harding reports on a region where everything is at stake. War has erupted again in Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan. Most of the residents are ethnic Armenians, who have been governing the territory since a first, vicious war three decades ago. But even the intervening years have hardly been peaceful, as Rayhan Demytrie found out. Hong Kong is living under a new National Security Law which authorities hope might put an end to a year of violent youth-led pro-democracy protests. This law has given Beijing unprecedented powers within Hong Kong to police public speech and demonstrations. There seems to be a new, mainland Chinese secret police too. Activists and journalists find they're now being followed, including Danny Vincent. It's Germany's National Unity Day, marking the reunification of West and East Germany 30 years ago today, after 45 years of being separated by the Iron Curtain. Since then, the westerners and easterners haven't always seen eye to eye. And five years ago, they took in a million refugees. John Kampfner takes the pulse of modern-day Germany. In France, a reckoning of sex, power and gender has begun, with new campaigns against domestic violence. An issue that the government has started to tackle, too. And, as Joanna Robertson says in Paris, the underlying fires of the battle are being stoked with pieces of paper and pots of glue.

Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

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Good morning.

0:06.4

Today some conflicts never fade away

0:09.2

and it's Nagorno-Karabakh

0:11.2

that's back in the headlines. We hear from the land where Azare's and ethnic Armenians are once again in the thick of it.

0:18.0

How about a new security law which engenders insecurity in Hong Kong, where journalists and activists find

0:27.2

there now being followed, but by whom?

0:30.9

Germany marks 30 years of reunification today, five years after absorbing a million refugees.

0:38.0

So do Germans now see their glass half full or half empty. And from Paris how to campaign against domestic violence. We meet the women armed with paper, paint and buckets of glue.

0:52.0

First to Mozambique, whose new... paint and buckets of glue.

0:52.6

First to Mozambique, whose northernmost province of Cabo delgado,

0:57.7

borders Tanzania and the Indian Ocean.

1:00.6

There are fears that it may have become the latest outpost of ISIS insurgency with reports

1:06.5

of massacres.

1:09.2

The area is rich in precious gemstones and has huge reserves of natural gas. One gas project alone is

1:16.4

Africa's biggest private investment and this week its chief executive appealed to the

1:21.4

EU to help stabil stabilize the region.

1:24.3

Everything's at stake there, says Andrew Harding.

1:29.3

From above, Vamise looks like a thin green smile.

1:33.2

It's a sliver of land, fringed by white powdery beaches

1:37.1

and by the light blue smudges of submerged coral reefs.

1:40.8

At low tide, you can almost walk to the nearby mainland a remote corner of northern

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