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from MAPUTO, (CAJ News) – MORE than 2 000 children have been separated from their parents during the violence perpetrated by Islamists in northern Mozambique. This includes 454 who have lost their parents in the most recent violence in Pemba in April. Save the Children has documented the separation of 2 424 children from their parents since the conflict in the Cabo Delgado region started in 2017. Lost birth certificates and a lack of schools are some other most pressing fears raised by chil...

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Mozambique - Update, Cabo Delgado Situation, 1 – 14 May 2021 Format UNHCR continues receiving concerning reports of systematic forced return of Mozambican families from Tanzania who are fleeing from Palma and urges neighbouring countries to respect access to asylum for those fleeing violence and conflict in northern Mozambique. As of 14 May, more than 49,6001 people from Palma are forcibly displaced, in the aftermath of Non-State Armed Group (NSAG) attacks on 24 March. Majority of them fled t...

Deaan Vivier, Netwerk24 The insurgency in Mozambiques northernmost province, Cabo Delgado, has the potential to spill into South Africa, Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said when she delivered her departments budget vote speech on Tuesday. This while defence capabilities are under "extreme stress" amid budgetary constraints after an R15 billion cut over the next three years. Mapisa-Nqakula told a mini-plenary of the National Assembly in a v...

The armed conflict in northern Mozambique continued in the first quarter of 2021, generating rising humanitarian needs. The attacks and clashes that began in Palma Town on 24 March, in particular, drove new displacement, with tens of thousands of people fleeing their homes and shelters, including people who were previously displaced from other locations, including Mocimboa da Praia. By the end of March, more than 696,200 people were internally displaced in Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula, arou...

18 May 2021 - 21:30 The defence forces capital budget has effectively been reduced to a trickle and the operating budget is under extreme pressure, says minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. Image: Alaister Russell SA may lose its state-owned defence industrial base and the ability to repair, maintain and overhaul most of its defence systems if the budget continues to be slashed. This is according to defence and military veterans minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who decried ...

UNHCR Mozambique Fact Sheet, January – April 2021 Format As a result of violence in Cabo Delgado since 2017, there are almost 700,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in northern Mozambique in March. Following the attacks in Palma on 24 March 2021, additional 31,000 people had been displaced to other districts by end of April. Among those newly displaced, more than 70% are women and children. Displaced families are hosted within local communities and IDP sites in several districts of Cabo D...

Proteas ODI and T20 captain Temba Bavuma is working with medical personnel at the Sharks in Durban as he continues his rehabilitation fro

In a report compiled from interviews with 11 black survivors, it charged that even dogs were pulled to safety ahead of black people by a helicopter that airlifted civilians from a hotel where they had sought refuge.