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Mozambique: Covid-19 Fears As Cabo Delgado Conflict Fuels Overcrowding, Hunger
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 16 October 2020
Aid groups say an insurgency in Cabo Delgado province has forced more than 300,000 people to escape further south Read more »
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Mozambique: Defence Forces Repel Attack On Macomia
AIM, 16 October 2020
The Mozambican defence and security forces on Wednesday night repelled a terrorist attack against the town of Macomia, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, reports Friday's… Read more »
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Mozambique: Health Ministry Reports Further 145 Cases of Covid-19
AIM, 16 October 2020
Mozambique's Deputy National Director of Public Health, Benigna Matsinhe, on Thursday announced the diagnosis of a further 145 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease. Read more »
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Mozambique: High Covid-19 Exposure Rate in Beira
AIM, 16 October 2020
About 5.2 per cent of the population of the central Mozambican city of Beira have been exposed to the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease, according to an… Read more »
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Mozambique: Health Minister Tests Positive for Covid-19
AIM, 14 October 2020
Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago announced on Tuesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease. Read more »
Covid-19 Fears As Mozambique Conflict Fuels Overcrowding, Hunger
Most of those escaping the ongoing conflict in northern Mozambique are finding shelter with family or strangers in areas further south, placing a burden on hosts and leading to overcrowding that raises the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus. An insurgent group has been launching deadly raids in Cabo Delgado, home to various multi-billion dollar gas projects, since October 2017 forcing more than 300,000 people to escape.
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At least ten people have been killed after militants attacked Nambo and Pangane, two villages in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. Given the huge potential in ... Read more »
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The southern African country has sought support from the European Union and other African states to stop the violence in Cabo Delgado province. While Mozambique's main opposition ... Read more »
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Several months after the European Union made a vague offer of support, the Mozambican government has asked the body for "support in the area of specialist training for the fight ... Read more »
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The latest attack by Islamic State-linked insurgents on the island of Vamisse in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado represents a significant escalation since the ... Read more »
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The Mozambican government has denounced the gruesome video footage of men in army uniforms beating and shooting a woman suspected of being an insurgent. The video, which circulated ... Read more »
IOM staff with internally displaced people in the province of Cabo Delgado.
