Fighters linked to ISIL have intensified attacks recently in the gas-rich Cabo-Delgado province.
Mozambique
![Vicente Tiago (right) heads a family of 30 people who fled the armed attacks in Muidumbe, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique [File: Ricardo Franco/EPA-EFE]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_56229403.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Three years since fighting began in Cabo Delgado, a humanitarian crisis has unfolded with more than 2,000 people killed.
![Reports and videos of beatings or other abuses have become increasingly common in northern Mozambique [File: Marco Longari/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2483ddd096d44aadbb93b0745c027c1b_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
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Government forces torturing suspected fighters in the country’s Cabo Delgado province, rights group alleges.
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SADC meeting comes days after ISIL-linked fighters seized a strategic port near major gas projects in Cabo Delgado.
Southern African Leaders are meeting on Monday to decide what to do about the unrest in Mozambique.
![Soldiers patrol the streets following a two-day attack in March 2018 in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique [Adrien Barbier/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/461c33f7aed4487080775be37e9e2c1d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
ISIL-linked fighters have taken control of a port near major gas projects.
ISIL-linked fighters capture Mocimboa da Praia port close to a major gas field following days of fighting.
An armed group is accused of rights abuses in Mozambique, and accusations are emerging against the army too.
![Filipe Mahajane, spokesperson for the Matavele family, holds a portrait of murdered Anastacio Matavele in Mozambique [File: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/85c188072a7f4f47a35274d4a800be3d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Anastacio Matavele, 58, was shot behind the wheel of his car in the southern city of Xai-Xai before October’s elections.
Militias have been raiding villages and government buildings for the past three years.
Public acknowledgement came days after police reported a ‘massacre’ of 52 villagers in Cabo Delgado province.
Young people ‘massacred’ in gas-rich Cabo Delgado province after they refused to join the group, police say.