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Lusa - Business News - Mozambique: Hotel sector bemoans 'alarmist' reports of 'bandits' in north of the country
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- by Luís Fonseca (text and video) and António Silva (photos)
Palma, Mozambique, 22 June (Lusa) - The headlines across the world about 10 beheadings by allegedly Islamic inspired groups in northern Mozambique has prompted an "alarmist" reaction that does not reflect reality, according to local business people.
"The deaths are real and this leads us to be afraid, but not alarmist," because there is criminality, but not Islamic extremism, argued Spanish businessman Benjamim Ojeda, a hotel manager in Palma.
However, the embassies of Portugal, the United States and the United Kingdom have issued notices advising against travel to and staying in the province of Cabo Delgado.
Benjamim said he believes that the Western world's imagination, still shocked by ISIS or Al-Qaida terrorist propaganda, has been led by the verb "behead" to believe in a threat that has yet to be proven in northern Mozambique.
There have been beheadings - although below the numbers the authorities have reported - but as the result of crimes, without signs of ritualistic killings such as the sacrifices posted on the Internet in the last few years, Benjamim argued.
Just 20 minutes from Palma, already known as the future city of gas, hundreds of men and machines are building a new village on the Afungi peninsula to welcome the population from remote villages that will disappear from the map.
This will be the home of a natural gas liquefaction plant, a megaproject that promises to change Mozambique.
The work is moving ahead on a huge tract of land, where ditches and foundations are emerging alongside workyards with dozens of pavilions and long lines of container houses.
US oil company Anadarko, the main company of the investment consortium, contacted by Lusa, declined to comment on the wave of violence in remote villages, just a few down kilometres away from the investment area.
Since 2014, several hotel and catering units have opened in Palma, thinking ahead to the arrival of hundreds of people linked to the new oil company projects.
The first two years went well, but 2016 and 2017 were "tough," said Benjamin, because of the postponement of investments due to market issues.
Now, as the work moves ahead, "we find this unexpected factor," which is driving away entrepreneurs, consultants and even firms sub-contracted by the big companies.
"Bandit killings or raids on remote villages are constant anywhere in Africa, they are common in Tanzania, South Africa and Malawi," said Benjamim, who has been in the hospitality sector in Mozambique for seven years, after a career in journalism in Spain.
According to reports from some of his workers in affected areas, there have been "sporadic, one-off attacks in remote villages and mainly based on revenge," related to local business and issues of the Muslim religion.
These are cases that "anybody has yet to fully understand." Alongside the attacks villages have been pillaged and anyone who has resisted or retaliated has been killed, he added, based on the same accounts.
According to Benjamim in Monjane, one of the villages where the authorities said five of the initial 10 beheadings occurred, there was actually only one beheading, which residents confirmed to Lusa during a visit to the village - although new beheadings have been reported in subsequent attacks on other villages.
Regardless of the way they occurred, these are crimes that have always occurred in the middle of the bush - with the exception of the initial attack on the police of Mocímboa da Praia in October 2017 -, which is why Benjamim said he believes that the intimidation is directed towards communities, not the Government or oil companies.
"Ten people killed with machetes is a drama, we are here to support them, because some are from our workers' families, but it is not a reason for tourism and business trips to come to a standstill. On that basis we should stop travelling to Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and Mexico and this is not happening," he said.
A delegation of 16 people from Columbia University, New York, was due to visit Palma for two weeks in August, but "cancelled a day after the alert on the US State Department website. We already had a proforma invoice, transfers," all prepared.
The attacks have occurred in the northern and central areas of Cabo Delgado, but the effects have already reached the provincial capital in the south, and the Quirimbas islands, to the east.
Jaqueline Alfredo, a tour operator in Pemba, the capital of the province of Cabo Delgado, has a Mozambican mother and a Kenyan father, and in 2013 in Kenya she followed the terrorist acts committed by the Al-Shabaab movement from Somalia.
"My father was on the ground and I managed to escape, I was close," and there was a message, "a signature" and claiming the attacks, a different modus operandi from the crimes in northern Mozambique.
"I have read that they are a 'jihadist' group, but I think the media is giving too much credit to this banditry. Al-Shabaab 'wannabes,' perhaps," she says.
Jaqueline spoke to Lusa on the island of Ibo, in the Quirimbas archipelago, a natural area that is a candidate to be named a biosphere reserve of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an attraction for niche tourism, but also a natural refuge for those fleeing from the mainland.
After two villages were burned earlier this month by suspected Islamist groups, at least 1,600 residents fled by boat and sought shelter with family and on Ibo island.
Some organisations have left the archipelago as a security measure, but Jorg Salzer, a German owner of a guesthouse on the island, smiles when asked about the situation.
"No chaos, no confusion," he said, because all the displaced people have found a place to stay, despite the housing limitations - one of his workers, for example, has now accommodated 34 people in temporary house and in a tent.
After eight years on Ibo island, Jorg cannot remember a time of such instability in the Cabo Delgado region.
Despite happening far from the island, where the streets remain calm, the situation has led to reservations being cancelled - a common complaint from hotel sector business people contacted by Lusa on the island, who complain of too much alarm.
"We have to deal with this in a positive way," said Fernando Moreira, a Portuguese citizen who has lived in Mozambique for 16 years and is the managed of one of the hotels in Palma. "We can not make a drama about something that may be fleeting, and easy to control," he said.
He said he understands that there is "concern" because there is a lack of "clear information," but believes that the future of Cabo Delgado and the gas megaprojects has not been compromised.
"It is a matter of time and we have to look at things from a positive point of view," said Eugénio Farahane, manager of another hotel built with the new businesses due to be deployed in the region in mind.
"We are confident, otherwise, we would not be here," he said.
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Agency : LUSA Date : 2018-06-23 09:56:36
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