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UN fear radicalisation of Mozambicans

UN fear radicalisation of Mozambicans

EMMA RUMNEY  MOZAMBICANS uprooted by a jihadist insurgency have the potential to become radicalised themselves if they lack basic essentials and root causes of the conflict are not addressed, United Nations officials has warned. Islamic State-linked militants have in the past year escalated attacks in Mozambique's northernmost province, Cabo Delgado, murdering villagers, fighting the army and seizing towns. Beheadings have been a hallmark of attacks. The number of people fleeing their homes swelled from 70,000 to about 700,000 over the last year, said Raouf Mazou, the U.N. refugee agency's assistant high commissioner for operations. Many initially made their way south…
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‘Militants behead children as young as 11’

‘Militants behead children as young as 11’

CHILDREN as young as 11 are being beheaded in Mozambique, UK-based aid group Save the Children said yesterday, as part of an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and forced many magnitudes more from their homes. Save the Children said it had spoken to displaced families who described "horrifying scenes" of murder, including mothers whose young sons were killed. In one case, the woman hid, helpless, with her three other children as her 12-year-old was murdered nearby. "We tried to escape to the woods, but they took my eldest son and beheaded him," the 28-year-old, who Save the Children called…
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