foreign
this vast corner of mozambique has
basically been emptied out
by terror you get a real sense here of
the scale
of the conflict and also how quickly
it's accelerating
this camp alone had about 60 000 people
in it
three months ago today it's doubled in
size
foreign
the situation here in palmer really is
very grim and you can see the
frustration and the
desperation amongst local people because
there's simply no food and what food
there is is incredibly expensive
very very angry i'm very angry
i have three days without eating nothing
and i'm here but i don't get nothing
as we flew out of parma we saw this
multi-billion dollar gas
project is fantastically rich in
resources but
very little of that wealth seems to get
passed on that causes resentment
which al-shabab is obviously exploiting
and in the meantime
people are still fleeing from the
violence a lot of them escaping by boat
heading to beaches further south
the horror stories that families are
bringing ashore here are
chilling people are desperate people are
terrified
but they're also baffled baffled by a
conflict that seems to have
come out of nowhere which makes so
little sense to so many people here
and this is a region that's known its
fair share of of conflict
of corruption of inequality over the
years but
cabo delgado was suddenly in the space
of two or three years being transformed
into this
horrific conflict zone a conflict that
really nobody saw coming