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AfricaPress-mozambique:<\/strong> After visiting the province, MEP Isabel Santos on Thursday urged in an interview with Lusa that \u201cpaths for dialogue\u201d be found with insurgents in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, in order to rescue kidnapped children and stabilise the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has to be a very structured intelligence work, so that ways can be found for dialogue and recovery,\u201d the Portuguese Socialist Party MEP said.<\/p>\n

While acknowledging the complexity of the situation, she nevertheless perceived some clues to a way forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are those who speak of a faceless reality, [but] there are also those who speak of faces identified in some videos and in material circulating on social networks. It is necessary to start from there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is work that goes beyond me,\u201d she added, continuing: \u201cThere are authorities with the capacity to do so that must join forces,\u201d and \u201can international effort must be made in this direction, to get to the heart of the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isabel Santos wants avenues for dialogue to be found so as to rescue \u201cas soon as possible\u201d the children who have been kidnapped by insurgent groups, while conceding that these bridges must have greater goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaving the children and stabilising the region, because people cannot be eternally displaced and living in terror. The situation of violence that is being experienced must be put to an end,\u201d she emphasised.<\/p>\n

The non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children announced a week ago that at least 51 children had been abducted by rebel groups in the last year, in line with statements heard by Lusa in Cabo Delgado in recent months that indicate the recruitment of child soldiers and sexual exploitation of minors in international networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appeal to join efforts to recover these boys and girls kidnapped by armed groups,\u201d Isabel Santos said. \u201cRemoving them from their environment and families removes the possibility of a normal development and a future life with some normality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The European parliament deputy and activist pledged at the end of her visit to Mozambique to try to keep aid to the country and Cabo Delgado at the top of the European agenda, indicating education as a priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 46% of the displaced population are children\u201d who have witnessed acts of \u201catrocious violence\u201d leaving \u201cdeep psychological scars\u201d, to whom it is necessary to guarantee access to education so that they can \u201crestructure\u201d.<\/p>\n

Even those who escape \u201care reaching places where schools are already overcrowded\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to make a great effort to promote these children\u2019s access to education \u2013 in addition to health, food and protection \u2013 because this will certainly be the best weapon we have to fight everything that is happening in Cabo Delgado in terms of violence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

According to Isabel Santos, many of the young people who make up the rebels\u2019 ranks \u201cdidn\u2019t find an answer that would give them an expectation of the future, due to lack of training and employment\u201d or support for their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to break this cycle, and breaking it can only happen if we open these children\u2019s access to education,\u201d she underlined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a concentration of unrestrained suffering in Cabo Delgado,\u201d she said at the end of the visit to the field, made at her own expense and which she says has served for her to understand \u201cthe complexity and suffering that is being caused to people who are being ripped out of their territory\u201d.<\/p>\n

She sees it as a challenge \u201cto concert efforts with the European Union and in [the EU] parliament so that the debate does not fade\u201d and so that attention \u201cis not watered down\u201d, possibly through further visits to Mozambique and other debates in the European parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will certainly be attention to all the action being taken to support the Mozambican state in responding to this situation,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

Armed groups have terrorized Cabo Delgado since 2017, with some attacks claimed by the \u2018jihadi\u2019 Islamic State group, in a conflict that has already claimed more than 2,800 lives, according to the ACLED conflict registration project, and displaced 732,000 Mozambicans, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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