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By ANDREW MELDRUM AND TOM BOWKER | Associated Press | Published: April 20, 2021 JOHANNESBURG — Some 40,000 displaced and urgently needing food, work suspended on a multi-billion-dollar gas investment, and scores of dead still being counted. The damage caused by Mozambiques extremist rebels in their deadly assault on the northeastern town of Palma continues to be assessed. Four weeks after the rebels launched a three-pronged attack, which lasted at least five days, Mozambican police and re...

April 20, 2021 Share Some 40,000 displaced and urgently needing food, work suspended on a multi-billion-dollar gas investment, and scores of dead still being counted. The damage caused by Mozambique’s extremist rebels in their deadly assault on the northeastern town of Palma continues to be assessed. Four weeks after the rebels launched a three-pronged attack, which lasted at least five days, Mozambican police and relief agencies are working to help the thousands uprooted by the vio...

Cabo Delgado Crisis: Situation Report 1 - 14 April 2021 Format HIGHLIGHTS In total, over 688,000 people have been displaced due to insecurity and violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique since 2017 (IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix [DTM], as of February 2021). Since attacks occurred in Palma, in the northernmost district of Cabo Delgado Province on 24 March 2021, IOM DTM has recorded more than 18,600 IDPs coming from Palma (as of 14 April). IOM is providing multisectoral humanitarian assistance to ...

Uganda. "Intercourse with a girl below the age of 16 is statutory rape in Pakistan, but in most cases a falsified conversion certificate and Islamic marriage certificate influence police to pardon kidnappers." — Morning Star News, March 12, 2012, Pakistan. On March 20, a court "changed a sentence of life imprisonment to the death penalty for a Christian convicted of sending a blasphemous text message in 2011".... Such petitions are "seen often as a service to Islam and as jihad or holy war a...

Escaped girls tell of insurgents’ mass abductions in Mozambique Jason Burke © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP/Getty Images Insurgents in Mozambique have abducted hundreds of women and girls, forcing many into sexual relations with fighters and possibly trafficking others elsewhere in Africa, interviews with some who have escaped the extremists reveal. Most of the abducted women are under 18, with the youngest about 12 years old. They are being held i...

Protection in Danger Monthly News Brief March 2021 Format Incidents of threats and violence in refugee and IDP settings. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo 20 March 2021: In Masenze village, Beni territory, North Kivu province, six Congolese IDPs were killed by ADF forces. Source: ACLED1 20 March 2021: At Taubamba and Mayalibo villages, Irumu territory, Ituri province, at least 11 Congolese IDPs were killed by the ADF, causing community displacement. An unspecified number of people were ki...

New clashes in Mozambiques northeast: army Islamic State-linked militants raided the coastal town of Palma on 24 March in an assault that marked a major intensification in an insurgency that has wreaked havoc across Cabo Delgado province for over three years as the jihadists seek to establish a caliphate. People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuee...

Fear and loss for people fleeing violence in Cabo Delgado Format The attacks on Palma, Cabo Delgado province in northeastern Mozambique, at the end of March drove thousands of terrified people from their homes. People fleeing headed for Afungi – located about 25 kilometres away – and also Pemba. Today, many are still riven with fear, with no news of the whereabouts of their loved ones. Many families were separated when people were evacuated from Afungi, as priority was given to women, child...

I. Background The MENTOR initiative is a British non-profit organization devoted to reducing deaths and suffering from tropical diseases. Established in 2002, MENTOR developed its expertise in responding to humanitarian emergencies, particularly in preventing the spread of vector born diseases. MENTOR currently operates in 8 countries (Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Syria and Iraq). In the aftermath of Ciclone Idai, that hit Mozambique in 2019, MENTOR ...

NAMPULA, Mozambique, April 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As thousands of people in northern Mozambique flee deadly fighting between government forces and...