UN, Mozambique Begin Massive Repatriation Refugees from a 16-Year Civil War Are Torn between a Desire to Go Home and the Security They Have Found Abroad
More than half the refugees are children who walked for days from villages in Mozambique’s western Tete province with just the clothes they were wearing. “I could see the houses burning up ahead, then I heard the gunshots and I ran,” said Wit, waiting with hundreds of other children t...
vil War Bears Fruit Refugees Pour Back Into Mozambique; Pact That Ended Long Civil War Bears FruitRefugees Pour Back Into Mozambique; Pact That Ended Long Civil War Bears FruitKarl Maier
Differently, in Eswatini refugees were sent to camps. Some refugee camps were active bases of political activities, mobilization, recruitment, and some logistic support for Renamo. Eswatini’s government tolerated Renamo’s activities among refugees. Renamo’s cross border networks also spanned the S...
The Republic held free elections in 1993, and by 1995 over 1.7 million refugees returned home from neighboring nations where they had sought asylum during the civil wars. Mozambique continues to teeter on the brink of war as there is much dissatisfaction with the government and continuing charges...
refugees.The settlement of Mozambique's civil war has its origins in domestic power ratios, international developments, and the hard work of a competent group of peace facilitators.As early as 1984 it was apparent that neither the government nor the Renamo rebel group could win the war outright...
Beira, Mozambique, the provincial capital of the central province of Sofala, is situated on the Indian Ocean. Since the 1950s, Beira has served as the major port city for the landlocked neighbouring countries of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. During the civil war which began in 1976, Beira was...
The former Portuguese colony is battling to contain a deadly Islamic insurgency that has so far claimed over 2 000 lives and displaced about 570 000 people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Fighters from an Islamic State (IS)-affiliated extremist group known as Al...
They were granted permission to enter northern Mozambique as refugees, and when we arrived, they shared their homes and meager provisions with us. Nan a haña permiso pa drenta nort Mozambique como refugiado, i ora nos a yega, nan a compartí nan cas i nan tiki provisionnan cu nos....
By mid-1995 the more than 1.7 million Mozambican refugees who had sought asylum in neighboring Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Zambia, Tanzania, and South Africa as a result of war and drought had returned, as part of the largest repatriation witnessed in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, a furthe...