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The five members of the collective “Black lives matter in Italian Fashion”, during a fashion show ahead of Milan Fashion Week, Milan, Italy, 17 February 2021, MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images February 2021 in Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s regional editor Reyhana Masters, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region. An audio discussion relating to this piece is available here. February –  a month dedicated to romance and declarations of love in many cultures – was peppered with more setbacks than triumphs. While continental crea...

People displaced by the violence in Cabo Delgado gather for a community meeting in the Tara Tara district of Matuge, northern Mozambique on February 24, 2021 [AFP/Alfredo Zuniga] On April 7, 2020, Ibrahimo Abu Mbaruco, a reporter for the Palma Community Radio in Mozambique’s northernmost province Cabo Delgado, left work for home at about 6pm and shortly after texted a colleague to say he was “surrounded by soldiers”. He has not been heard from since. For years, Mbaruco has been covering the violence in Cabo Delgado, where armed groups have been terrorising civilians since 2017. The viol...

February 2021 Criminal groups abducted hundreds in north west, while ethnic and regional tensions ran high in south amid farmer-herder conflict; meanwhile, tensions rose in south east between govt and Biafra secessionists. Criminal groups in Feb reportedly killed at least 112 and kidnapped over 450 people, mostly in Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto and Zamfara states (north west), but also in Niger state (Middle Belt). Notably, armed group 17 Feb abducted 42 students and school personnel in Niger state, released them 27 Feb; 26 Feb kidnapped 279 girls in Zamfara state. Meanwhile, Auwalun Daudawa, who ...

Maputo's media own goal 28 February 2021 - 00:45 Zitamar News editor Tom Bowker and his son shortly before catching a flight for London from Maputo on February 16 after being ordered out of Mozambique. Image: Ricardo Franco/Lusa Tom Bowker has had a lifelong obsession with Mozambique. His grandparents were missionaries there in the 1980s and, apart from the family connection, the country called to him in other ways. He and his wife Leigh Elston attended university in London and began working there as journalists. Bowker, who has a master's degree in development ec...

weekly newspaper. Six months since their first seizure of the port town, fighters of Ahlu Sunna wa Jama (ASWJ, aka Islamic State, Central Africa Province), still occupy Mocimboa da Praia in Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado. And, after a lull of several weeks, caused by floods and some improvements in the fighting capacity of the Mozambique forces, the insurgents seem to be on the march again, evidently resupplied with small arms by dhow from Yemen and Somalia.   There are reports of renewed fighting on the western fringes of Mocimboa da Praia district. On 16 February th...