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In Mozambique\u2019s conflict-riven\u00a0province of Cabo Delgado, children and young people are<\/em>\u00a0being deprived of education by the fundamentalist insurgency\u00a0that began in October 2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Luis Nhachote in Cabo Delgado<\/strong><\/p>\n Twelve-year-old Abdul* was studying in the fifth grade at the primary school in the village of in Montepuez is 14-year-old Karima, from the village of Chinde near Awasse, a *All the names of the children interviewed for this In Mozambique\u2019s conflict-riven\u00a0province of Cabo Delgado, children and young people are\u00a0being deprived of education by the fundamentalist insurgency\u00a0that began in October 2017 Luis Nhachote in Cabo Delgado Twelve-year-old Abdul* was studying in the fifth grade at the primary school in the village of Nova Zambezia in Macomia when the sound of gunfire erupted from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[266],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760.jpg",5184,3456,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760.jpg",5184,3456,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760.jpg",5184,3456,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-250x167.jpg",150,100,true],"medium":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-400x267.jpg",300,200,true],"large":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-650x433.jpg",650,433,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760.jpg",1536,1024,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760.jpg",2048,1365,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760.jpg",18,12,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-150x100.jpg",150,100,true],"retina2x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-800x533.jpg",800,533,true],"retina3x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-1200x800.jpg",1200,800,true],"retina4x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-1600x1067.jpg",1600,1067,true],"retina5x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-2000x1333.jpg",2000,1333,true],"retina6x":["https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2760-2400x1600.jpg",2400,1600,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Reda\u00e7\u00e3o CJIMOZ","author_link":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/author\/hcuambe\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Direitos Humanos<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":" In Mozambique\u2019s conflict-riven\u00a0province of Cabo Delgado, children and young people are\u00a0being deprived of education by the fundamentalist insurgency\u00a0that began in October 2017 Luis Nhachote in Cabo Delgado Twelve-year-old Abdul* was studying in the fifth grade at the primary school in the village of Nova Zambezia in Macomia when the sound of gunfire erupted from…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjimoz.org.mz\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNova Zambezia in Macomia when the sound of gunfire erupted from the football
\npitch.Amid the panic that ensued, he found his family already on the run, joining
\nthe rush to escape without slowing down. Scooping him up, they left for safer
\nground: the bush. They are now staying in the village of Muaje in Ancuabe, a district
\n100km south of their home but still within Cabo Delgado.This region has not itself been
\ntouched by conflict, but it is serving as a refuge for a great many of those who, like
\nAbdul and his family, have been displaced by the violence.Abdul is safe, for now,
\nbut he wishes he could go back to school.Across Cabo Delgado, about 300 schools
\nhave been partially or completely destroyed and 98,000 students have been left
\nwithout any prospect of continuing their education any time soon. Some 1,736
\nteachers have been displaced by the conflict, according to official figures.It\u2019s no
\nsurprise that the insurgency has targeted schools \u2013 in the relatively neglected Cabo
\nDelgado, schools were one of the few significant examples of state infrastructure.
\nMoreover, one of the few demands the insurgency has ever articulated is that people
\nin Cabo Delgado should stop sending children to school. In Palma \u2013 the district
\nhome to the multibillion-dollar gas project that insurgents overran last March,
\ntriggering foreign intervention \u2013 7,500 pupils and 1,700 teachers fled. Just 113 of
\nthose teachers have since returned, despite the presence of Rwandan troops, who
\nejected the occupying insurgents and restored peace and government control to the
\ndistrict. Only 12 of the district\u2019s 43 schools have reopened.
\nIn Abdul\u2019s home district of Macomia,meanwhile, 13 out of 54 schools have
\nreopened, but he and many others are not ready or even able to return.Three years
\nago, nine-year-old Heba also fled Macomia. She now lives in a centre for
\ninternally displaced persons in Montepuez, more than 200km south of the village
\nher family once called home.Heba was in the fifth grade when she had to
\ninterrupt classes. Her dream is to be a doctor \u2018to help heal people\u2019,
\nbut it is on hold because, according to her, \u2018Al Shabab destroyed
\neverything\u2019.She too was in the fifth grade when the insurgency turned her world
\nupside down. Her dream is to be a doctor \u201cto help heal people\u201d \u2013 but in Cabo Delgado
\nsuch dreams are on hold, at best. \u201cAl Shabab destroyed everything,\u201d she says.Also<\/p>\n
\nvillage that sits on a keycrossroads that has been fiercely contested by insurgents and
\ngovernment forces. One day, Karima and her family heard gunfire and fled into the
\nbush, where they hid for two months. \u201cI didn\u2019t take anything with me,\u201d she says.
\n\u201cNo clothes, no books.\u201dHer family eventually made it to Montepuez. But she
\nlongs to return to school, she says. \u201cTo be somebody.\u201dLearning in the open
\nairFor those children in Cabo Delgado who can go to school, many are finding
\ntheir classes are taking place in the open air. The number of lessons being held
\noutdoors grew 15% in 2021, from 777 in 2020 to 893 last year, provincial director of
\neducation Ivaldo Quincardete told The Continent, in an interview in Pemba.When
\nQuincardete heard The Continent was also going to visit baby Awa, who was born
\non a boat bringing her mother to relative safety in Pemba, he said his unit wanted
\nto offer her a scholarship. The Continent first reported her story two years ago.
\nThey now live in the Paquitiquete neighbourhood, where displaced people have been
\ngiven lodging.For Awa, at least, some kind of education is on the cards \u2013 but
\nauthorities still have much to do in rebuilding Cabo Delgado\u2019s education
\ninfrastructure.And returning to their home village of Pangane, which they left in
\nOctober 2020, is still a distant dream. \uf06e<\/p>\n
\nstory have been changed. Their real names are known to The Continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"