Mozambique: Police Return Suspected Extremist Recruits to Home District

Maputo — The Mozambican police claim to have prevented the recruitment of 33 people from the northern province of Nampula to join the islamist insurgency in parts of the neighbouring province of Cabo Delgado.

The 33, who included youths, elderly people and even children, were travelling in a sail boat from Geba, in the Nampula district of Memba, to Mocimboa da Praia in Cabo Delgado. Mocimboa da Praia is where Islamic fundamentalists launched their insurrection last October.

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