EU Counterinsurgency Aid to Mozambique Should Help Protect Rights

Click to expand Image Residents of Naunde, in Macomia, Cabo Delgado, flee their village following an attack on June 5, 2018.  ©2018 Human Rights Watch The European Union has agreed to a request by the Mozambican government for help combatting the Islamist armed group Al-Sunna wa Jama’a. The insurgency began in October 2017 and affects several districts in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. Fighting between the group and government forces has left more than 1,500 civilians dead, displaced more than 250,000, and resulted in more than 700,000 people needing emergency assistance. The…

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