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More than 1,000 survivors of Mozambique hardline Islamist attack reach safety By RFI © AFP - Alfredo Zuniga Some 1,000 survivors of a deadly attack by jihadists arrived in Mozambiques Pemba port on Thursday, assisted by aid workers who distributed food to those getting off the crowded ferry. Families and friends greeted the arrivals from Palma, Reuters news agency reported, following an organised attack by Islamic State affiliated fighters last week that killed dozens of people. The Red Cross ...

Mozambique: Horrific attacks on children in Cabo Delgado Save the Children, has been listening to horrifying scenes of murder and grief told by displaced families in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. Paul Samasumo – Vatican City According to Save the Children, mothers have told the Aid agency, children as young as 11 are being beheaded, by militants, in Mozambique’s troubled Cabo Delgado province. The conflict in the region has displaced thousands. Traumatised mothers One mother spoke...

43 shares In this photo dated Friday Feb. 19, 2021, made available by Medecins Sans Frontieres, showing an MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff member measuring a childs upper arm circumference to check for malnutrition in Meluco, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. Northern Mozambiques humanitarian crisis is quickly growing with more than 650 000 people displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency in Cabo Delgado province according to a statement Tuesday March 16, 2021,...

Airlink to resume flights between SA and Lesotho Airlink will resume with daily flights between Johannesburg and Maseru from March 29, the airline said in a statement on Monday. The announcement follows the reopening of Lesotho’s borders and the lifting of Covid-19 travel restrictions between SA and Lesotho. Airlink suspended its daily service between Johannesburg and Maseru in January. This followed the Lesotho government’s banning of passenger flights to and from Moshoeshoe International...

Children as young as 11 have been beheaded by ISIS-linked militants who have killed more than 2,500 people over the last three years in Mozambique. One mother told Save the Children that her eldest son, 12, had his head cut off close to where she was hiding with her three other children when their village was raided.  Another mother described her heartache at leaving her murdered 11-year-old son in their village without a burial because her family were forced to flee. Nearly 580,000 people lef...

Children as young as 11 have been beheaded by ISIS-linked militants who have killed more than 2,500 people over the last three years

Such horrors have become commonplace in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province over the last year

BBC News By Andrew Harding media captionRunning from terror in north-east Mozambique Some people rub their stomachs and talk of their hunger. Others describe burnt villages, abducted relatives, and the agonies of long treks through the bush to reach safety. But it is the beheadings that most haunt Palma, a besieged town in northern Mozambique. It is a place cut off from the outside world by roving gangs of machete-wielding Islamist fighters, and it is now symptomatic of a wider security and hum...

President Nyusi fires six top army officers amid insecurity 13 President Nyusi fires six top army officers amid insecurity MOZAMBICAN President Filipe Nyusi has sacked his army and air force chiefs as the country battles insurgency in the north and a rebellion by a militia linked to the main opposition party. A statement from the presidency released on Thursday night did not give a reason for firing Maj-Gen Ezequiel Isac Muianga, head of the army, and Maj-Gen Messias André Niposso, head of t...

Child Forced to Watch Beheading: Rare Inside Look Into the Mozambique Massacres Neha Wadekar © Provided by The Daily Beast Nyasha Kadandara PEMBA, Mozambique—Last year, 10-year-old Maria Antumane was forced to watch as a group of militant men carried out a gruesome attack on her village, Bilibiza. Armed with machetes and guns, the men had ordered her to keep her eyes open as they beheaded residents a few feet away from her. “I saw this happening. Killing. The men told us,...