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 News Reports And Clippings, 27 April 2020

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    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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