Dozens Killed After Refusing to Join Mozambique Insurgent Group
At least 52 young villagers in Mozambique's troubled northernmost province have been killed by insurgents. Police say that the villagers in Cabo Delgado province were "massacred", with some beheaded, after they refused to be recruited into the militant group. So far hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced during the three-year insurgency in Cabo Delgado.
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Mozambique:
Xitaxi Massacre Confirmed
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 27 April 2020
The Mozambican police have confirmed the story first published in Pinnacle News (8 Aprill) and Savana (10 April) that insurgents killed at least 52 people on 8 April in Xitaxi.… Read more »
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Mozambique:
Dozens Killed After Resisting Recruitment into Insurgent Group
DW, 22 April 2020
Some 52 young people were shot dead or beheaded in the country's north as an Islamist insurgency gains strength. Local and national security services as well as foreign mercenaries… Read more »
A map of Mozambique, showing Cabo Delgado.
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Mozambique:
Dozens Dead in Militant Attack
The New Humanitarian, 22 April 2020
The attack was retribution for a group of youths who refused to join the insurgents. Read more »
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Mozambique:
Police Confirm Muidumbe Massacre
AIM, 21 April 2020
The Mozambican police have indirectly confirmed a story, first published in the independent weekly "Savana", that islamist terrorists murdered dozens of people in Muidumbe… Read more »
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