Cabo Delgado Province

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Cabo Delgado
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Basic data
Country Mozambique
Capital Pemba
surface 82,625 km²
Residents 2,333,278 (2017)
density 28 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 MZ-P
Inselberg in Cabo Delgado
Inselberg in Cabo Delgado

Coordinates: 12 ° 19 ′  S , 39 ° 25 ′  E

Cabo Delgado is the northernmost province of Mozambique .

geography

Cabo Delgado has an area of ​​approximately 82,625 km². The province is located in northeast Mozambique on the Mozambique Strait . To the west lies the province of Niassa , to the south the province of Nampula and in the north Cabo Delgado borders on neighboring Tanzania . The border river here is the Rovuma . The provincial capital is Pemba with around 120,000 inhabitants. The province is named after Cape Delgado (port. Cabo Delgado ) at its northeastern tip , the northernmost point of Mozambique.

The province also includes the Quirimbas archipelago . The main town of the archipelago is Vila do Ibo , on the island of the same name .

Administrative structure

Cabo Delgado is divided into 16 districts :

population

In 2017, Cabo Delgado had 2,333,278 inhabitants. The majority of them belong to the Makua and Makonde ethnic groups .

Census year population
1980 940,000
1990 1.380.202
2007 1,606,568
2017 2,333,278

history

This 2½ centavo stamp, canceled August 1916, is an overprint of a King Carlos stamp from 1898, which in turn was overstamped with "REPUBLICA"

A trading center has been established in Pemba since the 14th century. The Portuguese had a small branch here from the 17th century, but it wasn't until 1904 that the Companhia do Niassa (Njassagegesellschaft) moved its headquarters here.

In 1843 the peoples of Pemba rebelled against Portuguese rule, to which they were liable to pay tribute.

After the First World War , the Kionga triangle on the coast was separated from the previous German East Africa and connected to the colony of Portuguese East Africa (today's Mozambique).

From 1761 to 1929 Ibo was the capital of the Cabo Delgado province, which was then relocated to Porto Amélia , now Pemba.

After Tanzania became independent in 1962, the FRELIMO independence movement operated from there in Cabo Delgado.

There has been a Muslim uprising since 2017, and the Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama militia is waging a guerrilla war there with several hundred dead. In October 2019, a Russian Wagner mercenary unit was involved in several skirmishes, 10 men fell and were partially beheaded, a larger number were injured, and another 20 soldiers from the Mozambique army are said to have also died. Residents report executions, torture and mutilation. At the beginning of 2020, around 100,000 people were fleeing from the Islamists.

economy

The Quirimbas are a popular destination for tourists. Pemba has an international airport. The province is connected to southern Mozambique from Pemba by the EN1 highway .

Web links

Commons : Province of Cabo Delgado  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/10/31/7-kremlin-linked-mercenaries-killed-in-mozambique-in-october-sources-a67996
  2. ↑ https://clubofmozambique.com/news/in-push-for-africa-russias-wagner-mercenaries-are-out-of-their-depth-in-mozambique-the-moscow-times-147483/
  3. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/mosambik-hundtausend-tote-101.html