{"id":176947,"date":"2024-07-20T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-jihadis-in-northern-mozambique-use-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T12:17:09","slug":"mozambique-jihadis-in-northern-mozambique-use-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-jihadis-in-northern-mozambique-use-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Jihadis in Northern Mozambique Use Rape As a Weapon of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em><em>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.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">&#8220;Here, in this area, there are many girls who were kidnapped and forced to marry terrorists,&#8221; said 17-year-old Telma from the Chiure district in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/mozambique-battles-islamist-attack-in-cabo-delgado\/a-69049981\" rel=\"noopener\">brutal war between an &#8220;Islamic State&#8221;-affiliated terrorist group and Mozambican security forces<\/a> and their allies has been raging in her home&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407150023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;Here, in this area, there are many girls who were kidnapped and forced to marry terrorists,&#8221; said 17-year-old Telma from the Chiure district in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651136:d3c068cf639b365d38809abb04e42a62:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,28517,4704,682,257,4282,305,254,6618,13004],"class_list":["post-176947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-jihadis","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-rape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war","tag-weapon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651136:d3c068cf639b365d38809abb04e42a62:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}