JOHANNESBURG — Jihadists plaguing parts of northern Mozambique for the past three-and-half years abducted dozens of children during raids in 2020, British charity Save the Children said in a report published Wednesday.
The charity said the “abduction of children has become a new and alarmingly regular tactic by armed groups involved in the conflict” and that the numbers involved were likely higher than its estimates, based on data collected by the US conflict tracker ACLED,
It said “at least 51 children, most of them girls” have been captured in Cabo Delgado province, where Islamist attacks have displaced some 700,000 people since the violence started in 2017.
In March the …
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