Operations are under way to move them to Pemba, around 250 kilometres south of Palma. Sea Star, a large passenger vessel, arrived in Pemba on Sunday with around 1,400 people, mostly workers including Total employees. "Authorities indicate that there will be a boat that will arrive during the day," the source told AFP. The provincial capital Pemba is already packed with hundreds of thousands of other people displaced by the Islamist insurgency, which has uprooted nearly 700,000 from their homes across the vast province. The violent, calculated raid broke a three-month hiatus in Islamist attacks widely attributed to counter-insurgency tactics and the rainy season from January through March.

Source: Standard Digital March 29, 2021 12:11 UTC