Daily Monitor
Thursday April 01 2021
People evacuated from the city of Palma arrive on an humanitarian flight at the airport in Pemba on March 31, 2021. PHOTO/ AFP
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The fighting had already displaced nearly 700,000 people in the gas-rich province, more than 43,000 of which were staying in Palma before the attack.
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More than 8,100 people have reached safety outside the northern Mozambican town of Palma a week after it was besieged by jihadists, the UN said Wednesday, as thousands others remained stranded.
Armed militants raided the coastal town on March 24, ransacking buildings and beheading residents as thousands fled into surrounding forest.
Dozens have been killed and many more are still missing in a coordinated attack seen as the biggest escalation of an Islamist insurgency that has battered Cabo Delgado province since 2017.
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that pre-drought conditions have already been reported in parts of Somaliland, Puntland, Hirshabelle, Galmudug and Jubaland regions of the Horn of Africa country after the poor seasonal rains late last year.
Fate still unclear of ‘tens of thousands’ of civilian detainees in Syria March 01, 2021
Destroyed buildings in eastern Aleppo city, Syria. courtesy OCHA/Halldorsson
GENEVA The fate of tens of thousands of civilians being held in Syria’s “notorious” prisons or detention centers is still unclear, 10 years after the country’s civil war began, UN investigators said on Monday.
According to the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, thousands more have been subject to torture, sexual violence or death in captivity.
Despite the “staggering” wealth of evidence, almost all parties to the conflict “failed to investigate their own forces”, said Commissioner Karen Koning AbuZayd.
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