{"id":200822,"date":"2025-06-24T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-armed-groups-child-abductions-surge-in-north\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:52:24","slug":"mozambique-armed-groups-child-abductions-surge-in-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-armed-groups-child-abductions-surge-in-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Armed Group&#8217;s Child Abductions Surge in North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Johannesburg \u2014 <em>Protect, Reintegrate Children at Risk in Cabo Delgado Province<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has ramped up abductions of children in northern <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/mozambique\" rel=\"noopener\">Mozambique<\/a>&#8216;s Cabo Delgado province, Human Rights Watch said today. Most of the abducted children are being used for transporting looted goods, forced labor, forced marriages, and taking part in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">National civil society groups and the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) report that such kidnappings are on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506240140.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>Johannesburg \u2014 Protect, Reintegrate Children at Risk in Cabo Delgado Province An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has ramped up abductions of children in northern Mozambique&#8216;s Cabo Delgado province, Human Rights Watch said today. Most of the abducted children are being used for transporting looted goods, forced labor, forced marriages, and taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[24929,258,256,9663,8438,9835,4704,682,257,6732,254,10716],"class_list":["post-200822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-abductions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-child","tag-groups","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200822","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=200822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}