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All reporters from a community radio station in Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique are safe after fleeing into the bush after a rebel attack in the Muidumbe district.
“The nine journalists who make up the editorial staff of the Rádio Comunitária São Francisco de Assis are already in apparently safe areas, after surviving 15 days in the woods due to the intense attacks carried out by the insurgents”, the organization explained in a statement.
Gradually and after walking long distances, with family members, including children, the survivors managed to reach safe places.
“After that there were communication problems with the last two [jornalistas] who were in the woods, Forcom received on Monday that Beatriz Luís and Moisés José were already meeting with relatives in the Montepuez district, “he added.
However, they have left everything behind and are now living “in precarious conditions”, like thousands of other displaced people.
As with other refugees, some members of that group of journalists have lost family members, killed in Muidumbe by the rebels who terrorize the province.
“My father was beheaded. We are dying of thirst and hunger, three days without eating anything and I am with my grandchildren. We ask for help,” one of them said in a telephone message quoted by Forcom on November 9.
The escape has lasted since the attack of 31 October and the portrait they make now, in the statements released by the organization, is of an “uncontrolled” situation with many abandoned bodies and children alone, lost in the countryside.
Muidumbe was the most recent district conquered by the rebels this year, having occupied others for several days, still maintaining control of Mocímboa da Praia, a coastal village and one of the main in the province, according to the most recent report on the conflict, prepared by a parliamentary commission.
Meanwhile, Commander General of the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM), Bernardino Rafael, said Thursday that the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) had recovered the Muidumbe district headquarters.
Armed violence in Cabo Delgado is causing a humanitarian crisis with about two thousand dead and 500 thousand displaced, without shelter or food, mainly concentrated in the provincial capital, Pemba.
The province where Africa’s largest private investment in natural gas exploitation is advancing has been under attack for three years by insurgents and some of the raids have been claimed by the Islamic State’s jihadist group since 2019.
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