Mozambique’s resilient jihadists

An insurgency in northern Mozambique is still going strong


  • by Pemba
  • 09 1, 2022
  • in Middle East & Africa

off the ants scurrying down her -shirt. “Beheaded,” she whispers, referring bleakly to her husband. They had been hiding in thick bush in northern Mozambique when they were stumbled upon by jihadists toting machetes who had previously pillaged their village. Back in December, Marta, 17 at the time, was blindfolded and marched along tracks to a secluded camp where her husband was then murdered. She was held captive, abused as a sex slave and traumatised. The jihadists cast her out of their camp, heavily pregnant, a few months ago.

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