ACN is sending an emergency aid package to Mozambique after extremists linked to Daesh (ISIS) beheaded more than 50 people.Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) announced the aid on Tuesday, 10th November, following news of the beheadings, which have been confirmed by police. The violence is the latest in a string of more than 600 attacks in the Cabo Delgado province, where up to 2,000 people have died and 310,000 have been made homeless.
Speaking to ACN, Sister Blanca Nubia Zapata said the attackers, from a group calling itself Islamic State in Central Africa, were forcing people from their homes. She said: “It seems as though they are trying to evict the entire population of the northern part of Cabo Delgado province, expelling the ordinary people without the slightest vestige of compassion.
“Over 12,000 people have arrived here in the past two weeks. We can’t keep up. Women and children are arriving, and older people who have been walking for days. Some have died on the way, on the roads and the forest tracks.”
Reports said the militants turned a football pitch in the village of Muidumbe into an “execution ground” and that more than 15 children and other young people were killed.
Regina Lynch, ACN International head of projects, said: “We want to help the Diocese of Pemba and the neighbouring dioceses with emergency aid for the victims of Cabo Delgado, on top of the projects we are already sponsoring within the dioceses for their priests and religious.“It looks as though there is finally some international attention being paid to this long- running and largely forgotten tragedy over many long and painful months…
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