Mozambique: PRM prohibits recording images of IDPs arriving in Pemba – Carta

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Mozambique: PRM prohibits recording images of IDPs arriving in Pemba – Carta

12:59 CAT | 28 Oct 2020

Photo: Todos por Moçambique

Sources stationed in the city of Pemba, the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado, say that the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) is now preventing the recording of images [photos and videos] of displaced people arriving in Pemba , while they disembark in Paquitequete beach there.

According to “Carta d Moçambique” sources, the decision allegedly aims at preventing images of the humanitarian drama from being disseminated internationally.Meanwhile, volunteers on site characterise the ban as “strange”, because, in their view, the videos and photographs allow the country and the world to grasp the scale of what is happening in that part of the country.

It is reported that about 150 vessels, transporting close to 12,000 IDPs from the areas most affected by the terrorist attacks (Macomia, Quissanga and some islands in the Quirimbas Archipelago), arrived in the city of Pemba between the 16th and 27th of October.

This number does not include IDPs arriving in Pemba overland, some of whom arrive on foot.

My heart goes out to all those fleeing the violence in Cabo Delgado. Every week, 1000s of men, women and children make this journey on foot or by boat, leaving behind everything they know and have; arriving to a place they don’t know with just the clothes they have. pic.twitter.com/XRI9WYoGsv

— Mamadou Sow (@MamadouSowICRC) October 26, 2020