Kitaya massacre
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| Kitaya massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of Insurgency in Cabo Delgado | |
| Location | Kitaya, Mtwara Region, Tanzania |
| Date | October 15, 2020 |
| Deaths | 20+ |
| Perpetrator |  ISCAP - Mozambique |
No. of participants | 300 |
| Motive | Jihad |
On October 15, 2020, militants from the Islamic State – Central Africa Province, launched an incursion into the village of Kitaya in Mtwara Region, Tanzania, the group's first claimed attack in Tanzania. At least twenty civilians were killed in the massacre.
Islamist insurgents allied with the Islamic State have waged in insurgency in the Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique, on the border with Tanzania, since 2017.[1] While al-Shabaab initially started as local gangs of Mwani militants disgruntled with the Filipe Nyusi government, the group established connections with the Congolese Islamic State – Central Africa Province (ISCAP) in 2018, and ISCAP as a whole has expressed the intention to expand to other East African states like Kenya and Tanzania.[2] In 2017, unknown militants killed twelve police officers in linked attacks in Kabiti and Dar es Salaam.[2]