The motivation for the latest attack on Palma in northern Mozambique by the al-Sunnah Islamist militant group is unclear. But, as Menzi Ndhlovu writes, it could be as a result of a resource raid or due to counter-insurgency by the Mozambican army, or that the United States had recently blacklisted al-Sunnah.
Mozambique must be ruing its luck.
At a period when the country appeared to be turning the corner from years of an economic crisis brought on by the infamous hidden debt scandal, crippling drought and a devastating series of tropical cyclones, tragedy has struck.
