Cabo Delgado: The Mozambican people forgotten by time – The Mail & Guardian

Cabo Delgado: The Mozambican people forgotten by time – The Mail & Guardian

When Bernardo and his wife Alima fled their village of Criação, they carried almost nothing with them. They only hoped to find out what happened to their daughters, who were nine and six when armed men abducted them in 2020. For years, the couple heard nothing. Only recently, a survivor who escaped captivity brought news that they were still alive. “Every thought leads nowhere,” Bernardo tells our teams in Mueda, where his family has lived in a …