An aerial view of the 25 de Junho camp for internally displaced people in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province which has seen armed conflict resulting in hundreds of thousands of people being displaced. Maputo — 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. The data were revealed on Wednesday by the national director for children in the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, Angélica Fulano. "Right now", she explained, "we are carrying out permanent monitoring actions to help these families, providing social assistance to them". The attacks, many of which were accompanied by atrocities, included beheadings and the destruction of public and private infrastructures.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 02, 2022 22:34 UTC