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🇲🇿Thousands have fled a growing insurgency in northern Mozambique.

🔴Tanzania is sending displaced people back into harm’s way - in contravention of international agreements

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❌The United Nations has warned of a growing crisis along the Mozambique-Tanzania border

Rwandan and South African troops have now been sent in to quell the violence

The insurgency in Cabo Delgado has been escalating since 2017.

Little is known about the motivations of these Isis-affiliated fighters, who have killed nearly 3,000 people and forced another 800,000 to flee their homes

🔴Palma has become one of the conflict’s hotspots.

⛽️The recent discovery of vast quantities of liquefied natural gas (LNG) offshore is apparently linked to the unrest
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❌The insurgents took the city hostage for more than four days in March.

🔴Some civilians sought refuge in French oil giant Total’s compound but others fled north, to the border

❌However, the Tanzanian military have returned people to a Mozambican border town

Heka Amisse, who attempted to flee Mozambique, told @Telegraph: "Tanzania does not want Mozambican people. We don't know why"

🔴Of the insurgents, she said: "When they catch men, they behead them. They kidnap children. They take women to the bush. When they catch old people, they beat them"

🔴In June, the UNHCR suggested that more than 9,600 people seeking refuge in Tanzania have been forcibly returned through the Negomano border point since January this year.

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