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ISIS-Linked Militants Escalate Beheadings and Church Burnings in Mozambique and DRC

Doctors Without Borders launched emergency relief after insurgent attacks forced more than 46,000 people, nearly 60 percent of them children, to flee their homes.

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The Catholic church Igreja de Nossa Senhora Rosaria, ibo island, Mozambique on July 20, 2013 in Ibo Island, Mozambique. (Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty)
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Overview

  • Propaganda images released by the Islamic State Mozambique Province show militants beheading civilians and torching churches and homes during four late-July raids on Christian villages in Cabo Delgado’s Chiure district.
  • United Nations migration data indicate that fighting between July 20 and 28 displaced over 46,000 people in northern Mozambique, with nearly 60 percent of those uprooted being children.
  • On July 27, Islamic State Central Africa Province gunmen attacked Komanda village in Ituri Province, DRC, firing on a Catholic church and setting homes ablaze, killing at least 45 residents.
  • Doctors Without Borders has deployed emergency medical teams to overcrowded camps in Chiure district to treat injuries and provide water, sanitation and shelter to newly displaced families.
  • UN migration and humanitarian agencies have documented the surge in displacement but have declined to classify the violence as targeted religious persecution.