HRW accuses Mozambique forces of gross rights abuses

Lobby group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has implicated the Mozambique security forces in serious abuses while fighting an armed Islamist group in the northern Cabo Delgado Province.

According to HRW, the security forces had since August 2018, arbitrarily detained, ill-treated and summarily executed dozens of people they suspected of belonging to an armed Islamist group.