It is 50 years since Mozambique achieved its independence from Portugal. But celebrations are being marred by deep divisions.

At least 120 children have been kidnapped by jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique in recent days, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday, warning of a rise in abductions in the country’s ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has claimed that the Islamist group al-Shabab abducted hundreds of children this year. The children are forced into fighting, labor or even marriage.

An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has ramped up abductions of children in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, Human Rights Watch said today. Most of the abducted children are ...

More than 120 children have been abducted by jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique in recent days, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned, highlighting a disturbing escalation in the troubled ...

On the hilly outskirts of Manica town in central Mozambique, Costancia Maherepa sits on a reed mat beside her mudbrick home and weeps over the death of her 11-year old daughter, Paciencia.

The World Bank has approved the Mozambique Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience Project, an initiative to strengthen the health system’s ability to deliver essential services ...

Mozambique’s government, led by the Frelimo party, has long been planning celebrations for 2025. It is 50 years since independence, won after an anti-colonial war against Portugal led by the ...

Child kidnappings in northern Mozambique are on the rise. The perpetrators? A violent insurgency with ties to the so-called Islamic State. DW examines the motives behind it and the urgent need for ...