Nine months pregnant, with no news of her fisherman husband, she had no choice but to flee.
Falume roused their five children and they made their getaway from the coastal village of Pangane. She gave birth on the run. I was sleeping and woke up around 4 a.m. to the sound of guns, she told AFP, shaken as she recalled that terrible day in October.
Falume is one of tens of thousands of displaced people in Pemba, the capital city of gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, which has been gripped by deadly jihadist raids since 2017.
Around 2,300 people have died, many of them poor villagers, and some half a million people have fled their homes.
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