{"id":14917,"date":"2020-04-23T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=14917"},"modified":"2020-04-23T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:03:49","slug":"militants-massacre-52-villagers-in-northern-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/23\/militants-massacre-52-villagers-in-northern-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants Massacre 52 Villagers in Northern Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Militants have killed 52 villagers in northern Mozambique who refused to be recruited to their ranks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The massacre took place on April 7 in the village of Xitaxi in the Muidumbe district of Cabo Delgado Province, home to multi-billion-dollar gas projects led by foreign companies such as Total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe young men were about to be recruited but they resisted, which provoked the ire of the bandits, who killed the 52 indiscriminately,\u201d police spokesman Orlando Modumane said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modumane said most of the victims had been either shot dead or beheaded, adding that a manhunt had been launched for the attackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Militants have in recent weeks stepped up attacks in the gas-rich province, targeting towns, villages, or government buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more than two years, the militants have mainly targeted isolated villages, killing more than 900 people, according to the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unrest has forced hundreds of thousands of locals to flee the troubled province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cabo Delgado, expected to become the center of a natural gas industry after several promising discoveries, has seen a string of assaults on security forces and civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017, the government announced plans to build a commercial port in Cabo Delgado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attacks have prompted security concerns for investors in Mozambique, one of the world\u2019s poorest countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NGOs say the government must do more to protect the mostly poor civilians in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants have killed 52 villagers in northern Mozambique who refused to be recruited to their ranks. The massacre took place on April 7 in the village of Xitaxi in the Muidumbe district of Cabo Delgado Province, home to multi-billion-dollar gas projects led by foreign companies such as Total. \u201cThe young men were about to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14919,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917\/revisions\/14919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}