Over 400,000 Children Displaced in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado
Terror attacks that have been plaguing parts of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado since October 2017 has left ver 400,000 children displaced, National Director for Children in the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, Angélica Fulano has said. "Due to the difficult moments that the children went through before they arrived in the regions where they are accommodated now, there is a specific follow-up that is being carried out to discover the psychological impact of the war on the children," she added.
Since October 2017, Cabo Delgado has come under attack by militants - causing death of more than 3,000 people and displacing over 850,000 others - leading to a humanitarian crisis. The attacks - many of which were accompanied by atrocities - included beheadings and the destruction of public and private infrastructures.
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Mozambique:
Over 400,000 Children Displaced By Terrorism in Cabo Delgado
AIM, 2 June 2022
Over 400,000 children are currently displaced due to the terrorist attacks that have been plaguing parts of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, since October 2017. Read more »
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Mozambique:
Cnds Calls for Reintegration of Displaced People
AIM, 12 May 2022
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Mozambique:
Mozambique's Displaced Recount Brutality of Cabo Delgado Insurgents
VOA, 4 March 2022
Beheadings, abductions, and entire villages razed - these are the stories told by Mozambicans displaced by attacks from Islamic State-linked militants in northern Cabo Delgado… Read more »
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Mozambique:
Attacks and Violence in Cabo Delgado Displace Thousands As Cyclone Season Begins in Mozambique
MSF, 4 February 2022
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced the use of child soldiers by the Islamic State-linked insurgent group Al-Shabaab, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. ... Read more »
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Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique, has been suffering violent attacks from militants since 2017 that have forced hundreds of thousands of p Read more »
An aerial view of the 25 de Junho camp for internally displaced people in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province (file photo).