Merchants leave Nangade – MediaFax

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Merchants leave Nangade – MediaFax

5:22 CAT | 07 Aug 2020

Informal traders at Nangade district capital, in Cabo Delgado province, have recently been leaving their homes to spend the nights in hiding for fear of being abducted by the Defence and Security Forces (FDS) on suspicion of collaborating with terrorist groups, MediaFAX reports.

Some have even left the district capital following traders being ”kidnapped and tortured by the FDS, all based on suspicions”.

Sources in Nangade cite FDS abuses, and comment on the pall of dread occasioned by the recent abduction of a local trader called Goromico.

The trader was seized as he was on his way to his bush vegetable garden (machamba) and accused of providing the terrorists with food. “The trader was released after almost a month of repeated interrogations,” one Nangade source maintained.

Goromico sells bicycle parts, motorbikes and electronic devices, and is the owner of a cashew orchard.

Nangade has not registered any attacks in the past two months, but has itself been receiving people displaced from the neighbouring Mocímboa da Praia district.

Many of the informal traders seized by the FDS profess the Islamic region, and are often accused of cooperating with the insurgents. There are reports of traders only being released after the payment of sums of money.

Source: MediaFax