Mozambique: Police ask for support from communities to avoid youth recruitment

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Mozambique: Police ask for support from communities to avoid youth recruitment

12:55 CAT | 27 Feb 2020

Photo: Miramar

The commander-general of the Mozambican police, Bernardino Rafael, asked for the involvement of communities to avoid the recruitment of youth by groups that have been carrying out armed attacks in Cabo Delgado.

“We ask the communities to alert the youth to avoid being recruited to enlarge the ranks of the wrongdoers,” said Bernardino Rafael, speaking at a meeting with community leaders in Cabo Delgado province, quoted by the Mozambique Information Agency (AIM).

The police commander-general said the authorities recently intercepted about 250 young people from Nampula province who were on their way to Cabo Delgado to join armed groups that have been carrying out attacks in the province.

“The Defence and Security Forces are working to improve public order and security in Cabo Delgado province,” the PRM commander-general added.

The armed attacks in Cabo Delgado province, where natural gas megaprojects are born, have claimed at least 350 lives and affected 156,400 people.

There has never been a claim to authorship of the attacks, except for communiqués from the jihadist Islamic State group, but whose presence on the ground experts and authorities consider unreliable.