Cornielo Manuel News Today

Her severed head was placed in front of their door.

Her severed head was placed in front of their door. Her tongue had been cut out — punishment for daring to talk back to the insurgents terrorizing northern Mozambique. Two years after her sister-in-law’s death, the scene still haunts Zara Alifa Assumane, 62. She fled her home in Mocimboa da Praia after the killing and now lives in a camp in Montepuez, 150km away. “I’m still terrified, I can’t stop thinking about it,” she said, her hair wrapped with a red-chilli-patterned headscarf. W...