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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>A 28-year-old woman who suffered sexual abuse while being held captive for almost two years by terrorist groups in Moc\u00edmboa da Praia and has a 6-month-old child by one of the rebels, says she does not know how to explain the situation to her husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to explain the child to my real husband,\u201d the young woman told Lusa, sitting with her son in her lap near the Pemba Sports Complex, a space that has welcomed people from Cabo Delgado to the provincial capital.<\/p>\n

The young woman, whose identity is not being revealed for security reasons, experienced the same tragedy as hundreds of women who were kidnapped by the terrorist groups active in Cabo Delgado since 2017.<\/p>\n

The non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) estimated, in December, 2021, that close to 600 women had disappeared in Cabo Delgado since 2018, warning that many victims had been abused, enslaved and even sold to \u201cforeign fighters\u201d for amounts varying between \u20ac550 and \u20ac1,600.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old\u2019s forced union lasted almost two years, and the trauma of someone who lived \u201ca nightmare\u201d in the woods of Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, her homeland, is still visible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere [in captivity] men show no mercy; you are everyone\u2019s wife, I went through that. If you refuse, they beat you,\u201d she laments in tears. She fears for the future of the 6-month-old child, the result of one of several rapes she was subjected to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t ask. All that interested them was their own sexual satisfaction,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

In addition to the trauma, the young woman, already suffering from malnutrition as a result of an \u201cundignified\u201d life in captivity, faces the absolute dispossession of those who lost everything when armed groups intensified their attacks in Moc\u00edmboa da Praia in June, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was famine in the bush \u2013 the terrorists have no food. We ate baby food every day, as a result of which my son and I are both anaemic,\u201d the young woman says, adding that her first daughter, also taken into captivity by the terrorists, died as a result of the appalling conditions suffered in the woods.<\/p>\n

Distant relatives who are preparing to welcome her in the safer district of Montepuez, also live on the threshold of poverty, but at least, there the young woman will not live under the threat of gunfire.<\/p>\n

She managed to flee the armed group in March of this year during one of several relocations forced on them by government forces but, despite attempts, has still not managed to reunite with her real husband, from whom she separated on the day of the attack in June, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t be able to explain to him what happened and how I have this child,\u201d the young woman repeats, stressing, however, that her affection for her 6-month-old son is \u201cunconditional\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cabo Delgado province, in northern Mozambique, is rich in natural gas, but has been terrorized since 2017 by armed rebels, with some attacks claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.<\/p>\n

According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), about 784,000 persons have been internally displaced by the conflict, which has killed about 4,000, according to the ACLED conflict registry project.<\/p>\n

Since July 2021, an offensive by government troops, with the support of Rwandan and later Southern African Development Community (SADC) troops, has recovered a number of areas from rebel control, but their flight has led to new attacks in districts through which they have passed or taken up temporary refuge.<\/p>\n

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