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
Summary
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.