{"id":1724,"date":"2021-07-01T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2021-07-01T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:28:06","slug":"mozambique-cabo-delgado-rebels-using-women-children-as-human-shields-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-cabo-delgado-rebels-using-women-children-as-human-shields-army","title":{"rendered":"Cabo Delgado rebels using women, children as human shields \u2013 army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Rebel groups in Cabo Delgado are using women and children as human shields in fighting with Mozambican forces, an army source said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first barrier we find are children and women,\u201d General Cristov\u00e3o Chume, commander of the army branch, told Radio Mozambique as he described the fighting that has been taking place in Palma district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been instructing our comrades who are fighting to preserve the lives of these children and women, going after those who have weapons \u2013 or who even if they don\u2019t have any, present themselves as [members of] the terrorist group,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official, quoted by the state broadcaster, the Mozambican security forces (FDS) have in recent days managed, without specifying when, to rescue over a hundred people who had been taken by rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Clashes and military operations in Palma district have intensified again in the last week, according to reports from displaced people fleeing to Pemba, the provincial capital, and military sources, who announced on Wednesday they had shot dead 150 rebels.<\/p>\n<p>The district used to host the natural gas exploration project led by Total, the largest private investment in Africa (around 20 billion euros), which has since been suspended due to insecurity in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Armed groups have terrorised Cabo Delgado since 2017, with some attacks claimed by the \u2018jihadist\u2019 group Islamic State, in a wave of violence that has led to over 2,800 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project, and 732,000 displaced people, according to the UN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. Rebel groups in Cabo Delgado are using women and children as human shields in fighting with Mozambican forces, an army source said on Thursday. \u201cThe first barrier we find are children and women,\u201d General Cristov\u00e3o Chume, commander of the army branch, told Radio Mozambique as he described the fighting that has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cabo Delgado rebels using women, children as human shields \u2013 army - 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