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Mozambican youths are being lured into joining armed groups attacking villages in the northern province of Cabo Delgado with job offers, a police source said today.
Mozambique police in Nampula this week prevented a group of about 40 citizens travelling freely on suspicion that they were being recruited.
“They did not commit any crime, but they were being cheated by offers of employment,” Manuel Zandamela, the provincial police commander in Nampula, said.
According to reports, they were on their way to work for an unnamed company purchasing sesame. The name of their alleged employer raised the authorities’ suspicions, and they were eventually prevented from proceeding any further and sent back to Moma.
The youngsters were mostly from Moma district, in Nampula, the Mozambican province which borders the south of Cabo Delgado.
Zandamela warns of the recruitment of young people by the group that has killed at least 35 residents in Cabo Delgado villages in the last two weeks alone.
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