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All journalists from a community radio station in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, are safe after fleeing into the bush after a rebel attack in the Muidumbe district.
“The nine journalists who make up the newsroom of Rádio Comunitária São Francisco de Assis are already in apparently safe areas, after having survived 15 days in the forest due to intense attacks by insurgents,” the organization explained in a statement.
Little by little and after traveling long distances on foot, with relatives, including children, the survivors managed to reach safe places.
“After there were communication problems with the last two [jornalistas] who were in the forest, Forcom received the information on Monday that Beatriz Luís and Moisés José were already with relatives in the Montepuez district, ”he added.
However, they left everything behind and now live “in precarious conditions”, like thousands of other displaced people.
As with other refugees, some members of that group of journalists lost family members, killed in Muidumbe by the rebels terrorizing the province.
“My father was beheaded. We are dying of thirst and hunger, three days without eating anything and I am with my nephews. We are asking for help,” one of them reported in a telephone message quoted by Forcom on November 9.
The escape has been going on since the attack on October 31 and the portrait they now make, in statements released by the organization, is of a “uncontrolled” situation with many abandoned bodies and children alone, lost in the countryside.
Muidumbe was the most recent district taken by the rebels this year, after having occupied others for several days, still maintaining control of Mocímboa da Praia, a coastal town and one of the main in the province, according to the latest report on the conflict. . prepared by a parliamentary commission.
Meanwhile, the general commander of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM), Bernardino Rafael, said on Thursday that the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) had recovered the headquarters of the Muidumbe district.
Armed violence in Cabo Delgado is causing a humanitarian crisis with nearly two thousand dead and 500 thousand displaced, without housing or food, concentrated mainly in the provincial capital, Pemba.
The province where the largest African private investment for natural gas exploitation proceeds has been attacked by insurgents for three years and some of the incursions have been claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State since 2019.
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