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Displaced residents return to Mozambique conflict-torn region
9:00 CAT | 30 Aug 2021
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In northern Mozambique hundreds of internally displaced people who had fled jihadist attacks that began in 2017 have begun to return to their homes following military operations involving troops from Rwanda.
In recent weeks towns and villages in Cabo Delgado province that had been overrun by the Islamist militants have been recaptured.
In Rwanda local media has shown photos of the military helping displaced people set off in buses and lorries from displacement camps back to their homes.
Rwandan and Mozambican forces have started helping people displaced by the IS-linked terrorists in Mozambique’s northern Province of Cabo Delgado to return to their homes. The first group of refugees, 684 people, headed to their homes in Palma #Rwanda #Mozambique pic.twitter.com/GznmCf8TBy
— gahigi (@gahigip) August 29, 2021
VIDEO:
Thousands of internally displaced people from various parts of Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique begin to return to their homes. pic.twitter.com/iz0NDPxG4z— Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) (@rbarwanda) August 29, 2021
This Saturday 28 August, security forces of Rwanda and Mozambique have started facilitating the return of internally displaced Mozambicans back into their homes.
They had fled insurgency in Cabo Delgado province since 2017.
📸IGIHE#RwandaInMozambique#FactsOnRwanda | #RwOT pic.twitter.com/KTAcy6amkU
— Facts On Rwanda (@FactsOnRwanda) August 29, 2021
The Mozambican authorities have however warned that some areas are still not ready to be repopulated as the jihadists destroyed basic infrastructure.
Close to three quarters of a million people have been forced to flee their homes because of the violence.
Source: BBC
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