Mozambique - June 2025

In June, the United Nations and Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported a significant rise in the number of children abducted by insurgents in Mozambique’s conflict-affected Cabo Delgado province. A local monitor told HRW that ‘in recent days, 120 or more children have been abducted’. In 2024, the UN recorded a total of 468 child abductions in Cabo Delgado. Most abductees are forced into labour, marriages and combat by the militants, who have been fighting an insurgency in the province since 2017.   

Sources: United Nations (1), Human Rights Watch, United Nations (2)