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MAPUTO The small group of militants were dismissed as bandits and machete-wielding gangs by Mozambiques government after they began launching attacks in the countrys northernmost Cabo Delgado province in October 2017. At a glance: Cabo Delgado’s rapid descent 570,000 people displaced – the vast majority since January. Militants control key transport routes, waterways, and strategic towns. Brutal attacks indicate an attempt to depopulate parts of the province. Local communities form self-def...

UNICEF Mozambique Humanitarian Situation Report No. 2 (Cabo Delgado): November 2020 Format Highlights Insecurity situation in Cabo Delgado prevails and led to displacement of over 500,000 people of which over 90% living in host families and nearly half of IDPs are children; UNICEF has supported the screening of 38,544 children 6-59 months, and 582 cases of SAM were identified and referred for treatment; During November, 13,000 children were vaccinated against measles through Integrated Mobile b...

AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Brazilian Church launches "SOS Mozambique": Lets help Cabo Delgado upset by three years of violence BRAZIL 2021-03-27 2021-03-22 2021-03-12 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) and Caritas Brazil have launched the campaign "SOS Mozambique: Cabo Delgado wants peace". "We are all brothers, part of a family of many, all of humanity. For this reason, distances, customs, differences cannot justify indiffere...

Pope Francis expresses closeness to Mozambicans in Cabo Delgado Pope Francis conveys his nearness to the people of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique, where around 600,000 people have been displaced from their homes due to an armed conflict. By Vatican News Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa of Pemba told Vatican News about the Pope’s expression of “closeness and great love”, which came during their private audience on Friday. The Bishop said the Pope spoke of his concern for the suffering people of Cab...

BBC News By Andrew Harding image captionMore than 400,000 people have fled the violence The number of civilians forced from their homes by conflict in northern Mozambique has quadrupled this year - to 420,000 - according to the United Nations. It links the crisis in Cabo Delgado province not just to attacks by Islamist militants, but to a perceived failure to distribute vast mineral and off-shore gas revenues to the local population. A senior UN refugee agency official visiting Cabo Delgado des...

news UN warns of rising Islamist violence in Mozambique © AFP More than 400,000 people have fled the violence The number of civilians forced from their homes by conflict in northern Mozambique has quadrupled this year - to 420,000 - according to the United Nations. It links the crisis in Cabo Delgado province not just to attacks by Islamist militants, but to a perceived failure to distribute vast mineral and off-shore gas revenues to the local population. A senior UN refugee agency official ...

2021 Mozambique Humanitarian Response Plan (Abridged Version) Format Crisis Overview The crisis in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, has rapidly escalated as a result of conflict, insecurity and violence, leaving an estimated 1.3 million people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance and protection in 2021. Attacks by non-state armed groups expanded geographically and increased in intensity in 2020, significantly heightening protection risks, especially for women and girls, people with disabilities, ...

A new home for Mozambiques displaced The authorities in Cabo Delgado province are resettling internally displaced people that fled from terrorist attacks in northern Mozambique. The operation aims to decongest the overcrowded provincial capital Pemba. Watch video 02:01

Cabo Ligado Weekly: 7-13 December 2020 Format Total number of organized violence events: 721 Total number of reported fatalities from organized violence: 2,441 Total number of reported fatalities from civilian targeting: 1,237 All ACLED data are available for download via the data export tool, and a curated Mozambique dataset is available on the Cabo Ligado home page. Situation Summary Insurgents struck close to the liquified natural gas (LNG) projects in Palma district on 7 December, arriving ...

U.N.: Jihadis Displace Nearly Half a Million in Mozambique 14 Dec 2020 The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said Monday that jihadi attacks in northern Mozambique have prompted at least 424,000 people to flee their homes, devastating a region that was only just beginning to recover from Cyclone Kenneth in 2019. UNHCR warned the conflict could spread beyond Mozambique and create even more refugees. “This is a situation starting in one country but if all the countries don’...