Mozambique: Armed Groups Burn Villages

Expand Residents of Naunde, in Macomia, Cabo Delgado, flee their village following an attack on June 5, 2018.  ©2018 Human Rights Watch (Johannesburg) – Attacks by armed groups in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado have killed at least 39 people and displaced more than 1,000 since May 2018. Hundreds of families fled their villages after suspected members of an armed Islamist group burned down their houses during nighttime attacks. The group implicated in the attacks is known locally as both Al-Sunna wa Jama’a and Al-Shabab, though it has no publicly known connection with the Somali…

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