At least 600 women and girls have been abducted and enslaved in the last three years by militants in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Accord to the report by the rights group, the IS-linked militant group, known as Al Sunnah wa …
Read More »Mozambique: more than two million at risk of hunger
Government in Mozambique says more than two million people in the country are at risk of acute hunger due to the violence caused by the insurgency and recurrent natural events. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme had earlier warned of a rise in acute food …
Read More »Mozambique: UN warns against returning civilians to areas affected by attacks
The United Nations said it is concerned over people returning to the restive northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado as it is still unclear whether the ongoing military operation has reduced jihadist groups’ capacity to stage attacks there. The caution by the UN’s Department of Safety and Security comes at …
Read More »Mozambique: jihadists kill five members of a family
Several newspapers in Mozambique report that five members of a family have been hacked to death by suspected jihadists while making a sugar cane-based brew in a village in the north. The five lived in a camp for people displaced by the insurgency in Cabo Delgado province, and were surprised …
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