Mozambique: Jihadis in Northern Mozambique Use Rape As a Weapon of War

Forced marriages of girls are common in Cabo Delgado. NGOs report that minors are abducted and systematically forced to marry members of jihadi terrorist groups.

“Here, in this area, there are many girls who were kidnapped and forced to marry terrorists,” said 17-year-old Telma from the Chiure district in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. A brutal war between an “Islamic State”-affiliated terrorist group and Mozambican security forces and their allies has been raging in her home…