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Two months after Palma raid, Mozambique survivors still on the run

The East African Tuesday May 25 2021 A general view of a main street in Palma District, in Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique. PHOTO | WFP | AFP Advertisement A constant nervous smile on Julia Francisco s face masks the anguish of fleeing extremist militants roaming northern Mozambique, then giving birth on a boat sailing in rough Indian ocean waters. Relieved to be now safe in Pemba, the capital city of northern Cabe Delgado province, the 21-year-old mother sat under a makeshift shelter at Paquitequete beach, holding her four-day-old daughter, loosely wrapped with a burgundy floral fabric. After eight days on a fishing boat, she spent the next three on the beach before being moved to a transit centre at a municipal stadium. Seven months pregnant at the time, Francisco was home when IS-linked militants struck Palma what locals believed was an impenetrable town, replete with soldiers protecting a multi-billion-dollar gas project.

Two months after Palma raid, Mozambique survivors still on run

Two months after Palma raid, Mozambique survivors still on run The scramble to escape Quitunda still rages on. Private fishing boats charge the equivalent of between $50 and $80 per trip to Pemba a cripplingly steep fare for the country s most impoverished region. People wait for their relatives and friends to arrive in Pemba on 1 April 2021, from the boat of evacuees from the coasts of Palma. More than a thousand people evacuated from the shores of the town of Palma arrived at the sea port of Pemba after insurgents attacked Palma on 24 March 2021. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP one hour ago PEMBA – A constant nervous smile on Julia Francisco s face masks the anguish of fleeing extremist militants roaming northern Mozambique, then giving birth on a boat sailing in rough Indian ocean waters.

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