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Displaced Nearing 400,000 in Mozambique's Islamist Insurgency

Charles Mangwiro

   PEMBA, MOZAMBIQUE - Aid groups in northern Mozambique say attacks on
   civilians have displaced close to 400,000 people during three years of
   Islamist terrorism.

   Fifty-year-old Matumba Mussa saidarmed men showed up at his house in
   the port town of MocĂmboa da Praia one October night and demanded he
   call his relatives.

   After his three brothers arrived, the men set fire to his house and
   three others, then took his brothers into the forest, according to
   Mussa.

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