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Pemba is home to people fleeing Palma

Pemba is home to people fleeing Palma

EMIDIO JOZINE PETER N'Guila used to have no trouble supporting his family of three on his consultant's salary. But since Islamic State-linked insurgents attacked a northern Mozambique gas hub town last month, he has seven more mouths to feed. Hundreds of people fleeing ongoing hostilities in Palma have been pouring into Pemba, a port city around 250 km (155 miles) to the south already bursting with those displaced by previous rounds of Islamist violence and a deadly cyclone in 2019. Around 90% of those arriving in Pemba are taken in by relatives, while others cram into schools, hotels, makeshift tented…
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