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UNHCR concerned over return of fleeing Mozambicans from Tanzania UNHCR is alarmed at reports that Mozambicans have been refouled, forcibly returned, and prevented from seeking asylum. UNHCR | Updated: 19-05-2021 10:56 IST | Created: 19-05-2021 10:56 IST The northern Mozambique border area where those returned from Tanzania are currently sheltering is remote and extremely difficult to access. Image Credit: Image Credit : Wikimedia UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned by ongoing r...

UNHCR appeals for Mozambicans fleeing violence to be given access to asylum in Tanzania This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at todays press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Displaced Mozambicans gather at Negomano Border point after being forcibly returned from Tanzania.  © UNHCR/Eduardo Burmeister UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned by ongoing reports of people fleeing Mozambique�...

UNHCR appeals for Mozambicans fleeing violence to be given access to asylum in Tanzania Format This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at todays press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned by ongoing reports of people fleeing Mozambique’s volatile Cabo Delgado province being forcibly returned after crossing into Tanzania. UNHCR and partners have received wo...

40,000 displaced in north Mozambique after assault on Palma ANDREW MELDRUM and TOM BOWKER, By Associated Press April 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8Displaced children attend a class in one of the educational centers set up by a local NGO in Pemba, Mozambique, after they fled attacks in Palma in Northern Mozambique, Monday April 19, 2021. The damage caused by Mozambiques extremist rebels in their deadly assault on the northeastern town of Palma continues to be assessed. More th...

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...

Tanzania extends broadband backbone to Mozambique border Sign in with LinkedIn 2h | Alan Burkitt-Gray Tanzania is to extend its national broadband backbone to the neighbouring east African country of Mozambique. Faustine Ndugulile (pictured), the country’s minister for communications and information technology, said the fibre network would be extended 72km from Mangaka to the town of Mtambaswala, from which it would extend south to the Unity Bridge across the Rovuma River to Mozambiq...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read MAPUTO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Mozambique and Tanzania are to launch joint operations to combat an Islamist insurgency under an agreement that will also see some 500 suspected insurgents extradited, Mozambique’s state-owned newspaper Noticias said on Monday. The three-year-old insurgency is concentrated in Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, separated from Tanzania by the Rovuma River and home to gas developments worth $60 billion. In October, however...