The Christmas season offered no respite from terror for the already suffering people of Mozambique's northernmost Cabo Delgado province. The litany of atrocities that had been reported steadily for over two years continued.
Minibuses and trucks ambushed; civilians burnt alive in vehicles or beheaded, one in front of his wife and children; 16 members of Mozambique's army killed in one attack on their base. Gruesome photographs of bodies beheaded and otherwise mutilated with machetes circulated on social media.
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