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A year ago Atija Camacho lived with her husband and their 10 children in a small three-roomed house in Paquitequete, a poor seaside neighborhood in Mozambique’s Pemba. Today, more than 40 people reside in her home. As a jihadist insurgency escalated last year, Camacho offered shelter to more than 30 people she found destitute at a nearby beach where dozens arrive almost daily in rickety vessels, fleeing the violence up north. More than 700,000 people have abandoned their homes since the violence started three-and-half years ago 64,000 of them in just the past two months since a major attack on Palma. At ....
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Attacks by jihadists in the north of Mozambique have terrorised the population, who have been forced to flee the violence. Many Mozambicans have opened their homes to accommodate the displaced, but h… ....