Mozambique Investigates Sexual Exploitation of Women Inmates
Expand Commission of Inquiry’s Mandate to Prisons Across the Country This week, Mozambique’s government-appointed members of a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation and other rights violations of female inmates by guards at the Ndlavela Women’s Prison in Maputo. Minister of Justice Helena Kida also announced the suspension of the prison’s entire […]
‘Iron Fist’ Against Sexual Abuse, Announces Public Works Minister
The Mozambican Minister of Public Works, Joao Machatine, on Friday announced that the government will not tolerate the sexual abuse of young girls by the employees of contractors working on road projects in Zambezia and Nampula provinces. The government would approach these crimes with “an iron fist”, he warned, at a meeting with the Ministry’s […]
Violence and Displacement in Cabo Delgado – Women and Children Particularly Affected
Women and children are the victims most affected by the violence and the consequences of displacement in the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, where since 2017 over 700,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes due to the actions of jihadist groups linked to the Islamic State. The situation worsened in March […]
Mozambique, Angola Help Girls Manage Menstrual Health and Hygiene in Crises and Beyond
It can be challenging enough when a girl gets her first period – she may not even know what is happening to her body. Now put her in a situation in which she’s been displaced or vulnerable because of a natural disaster, conflict or pandemic and has no access to supplies or proper sanitation. In […]
UNHCR Urges Tanzania to Accept Mozambican Refugees
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged the Tanzanian authorities not to turn back Mozambicans fleeing over the border in the wake of the terrorist attack against the town of Palma, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, on 24 March. According to a UNHCR press release, teams from the agency in […]
Volunteer Ships Help to Evacuate 1,000 From Palma After Insurgent Attack
Many South Africans, some contractors working on the construction of the French Total energy company’s Afungi liquid natural gas processing plant, were caught up in the violence and at least one is known to have died. In a mini “modern-day Dunkirk” operation on Sunday, a flotilla of private ships of all shapes and sizes evacuated […]
Activists Are Working Together To Break The Silence On Intimate Partner Violence
Eight girls sit on straw mats in a dusty courtyard in Gaza province, southern Mozambique. They share their stories about abuse, violence and overcoming trauma. Celeste*, 21, a young woman with a gentle smile, leads the group. Her story resonates with the other girls: “I have been through abuse and I know how much it […]
$12 Million Needed for 330,000 Women, Girls, Youth Caught in Cabo Delgado Conflict During Covid-19
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, today launched a humanitarian appeal for $12 million to urgently provide life-saving sexual and reproductive health and protection services to 330,000 women, girls, and youth impacted by the humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado and the secondary impacts of COVID-19. Read the Cabo Delgado Crisis Flash Appeal. “Cabo […]
Thousands Displaced After Heavy Rain Hits Mozambique
Heavy rains have marooned about 27,000 people in Mozambique’s Boane district, about 30 kilometres south of the country’s capital Maputo since last week, local councilman confirmed Monday. Speaking to the private-owned STV, Mr Jacinto Loureiro said that two bridges along Umbeluzi River and several roads had been cut and hundreds of houses flooded. Crops were […]
Islamists Behead 50 People in Troubled Province
Militant Islamists have decapitated more than 50 people in Cabo Delgado province in the north of Mozambique, police say. The militants have been carrying out brutal attacks in the province since 2017. Islamist militants have attacked several villages in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique in the past few days, beheading more than 50 people, […]
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