Mozambique: Many of Mozambique’s Internally Displaced Fear Returning Home

Hasmane Alfa was 18 when armed men attacked his home village of Quissanga, in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.

For days afterward, he didn’t know where his father was. “I had to separate from my father to survive. We spent four days without seeing each other. No one knew the whereabouts of the other,” he told VOA’s Portuguese Service.

Now 21 and living with relatives in Pemba City, Alfa said his only wish was for stability in the region. “There is a common song among all displaced people:…