Mozambique’s insurgency displaces 33,000 in a week ― IOM
Another 33,000 people in northern Mozambique fled their homes in the last week in response to the attacks by a jihadist group, the UN’s migration agency said Tuesday.
The gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado is under assault from a shadowy extremist group known locally as Al-Shabab.
Court jails director 7 years for job-racketeering The IOM’s tally of internally displaced in Cabo Delgado has quadrupled this year.
![Guest posting agency=0></a></div><p>The government and a Mozambican group of monitors say more than 400,000 people have been displaced over the past three years.</p><p>The militants have stepped up attacks in the region this year, carrying out massacres and beheadings and torching villages.</p><p>A US-based NGO, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) group, has documented more than 2,000 deaths, at least 1,100 of them civilians.</p><p>[AFP]</p><p><a href=http://vanguardngr.com/ ><strong>Vanguard News Nigeria</strong></a></p><p>The post <a rel=nofollow href=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/mozambiques-insurgency-displaces-33000-in-a-week-%E2%80%95-iom/ >Mozambique’s insurgency displaces 33,000 in a week ― IOM</a> appeared first on <a rel=nofollow href=https://www.vanguardngr.com/ >Vanguard News</a>.</p><div class=saboxplugin-wrap itemtype=http://schema.org/Person itemscope itemprop=author><div class=saboxplugin-tab><div class=saboxplugin-gravatar><img alt src=](https://i.ibb.co/Tcc2Lcb/Guestposting-336x280-3.jpg)
