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Cabo Delgado: Fly Indico Private Area Company Reconnects Pemba and Palma

Cabo Delgado: Fly Indico Private Area Company Reconnects Pemba and Palma

Private airline Fly Índico announced this Monday, October 17, the resumption of flights linking Pemba and Palma, in Cabo Delgado, a connection interrupted following armed rebel attacks in the north of the country.

“The link will be resumed from 28 November and we intend to make at least two flights a week, on Mondays and Fridays,” Alfrad Venichand, Fly Indico’s reservations assistant, told Lusa.

The link, interrupted following the rebel attack on Palma in March 2021, will be made by a Cessna Caravan aircraft, with capacity for ten passengers, said the same source from the Mozambican company.

“We were already flying this route. In fact, during one of the attacks in Palma, we helped the authorities to remove some people. We feel that there is now safety and we are going to start operating again,” added Venichand.

Palma was the target of one of the most notorious attacks carried out by the rebels, who have been terrorising Cabo Delgado province for five years, when on 24 March, 2021, the insurgents invaded the district’s headquarters, causing dozens of deaths and injuries, as well as the flight of thousands of people.

The district hosts the natural gas exploration project led by TotalEnergies, the largest private investment in Africa (around 20 billion euros), which has since been suspended due to insecurity in the region.

Cabo Delgado province is rich in natural gas but has been terrorised since 2017 by armed violence, with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.

The insurgency has led to a military response since a year ago with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts near gas projects, but new waves of violence have emerged south of the region and in neighbouring Nampula province.

In five years, the conflict has left a million people displaced, according to the UNHCR, and around 4 000 dead, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.

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