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Yeah, the city and the man.
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Mana.
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Uh, here, son Mike, stand against India.
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Long has to work Familia Ph.
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This vast corner of Mozambique has basically been emptied out by terror.
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You've got a real sense here of the scale of the conflict and also how quickly it's accelerating.
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This camp alone had about sixty thousand people in it three months ago.
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Today it's doubled in size.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
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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.
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And what food there is is incredibly expensive, very, very angry.
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I'm very angry.
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I have three days without eating nothing and I'm here, but I don't get nothing.
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As we flew out of Palmer, we saw this multibillion dollar gas project.
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Mozambique is fantastically rich in resources, but very little of that wealth seems to get passed on.
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That causes resentment which Al Shabaab is obviously exploiting.
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And in the meantime, people are still fleeing from the violence, a lot of them escaping by boat, heading to beaches further south.
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I'm right.
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The horror stories that families are bringing ashore here are chilling.
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People are desperate, People are terrified.
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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.
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And this is a region that is known its fair share of conflict, of corruption, of inequality over the years.
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But Cabo Delgado, who is suddenly in the space of two or three years, been transformed into this horrific conflict zone, a conflict that really nobody saw coming.
