Report: Mozambique soldiers used sexual extortion

According to the UN report, Mozambican soldiers are allegedly responsible for rape, transactional sex, extortion and abuse, including against minors.

Forbidden Stories, an organization of independent journalists, has obtained a still-unpublished United Nations report documenting human rights violations and sexual abuse committed by Mozambican military forces and employees of the French fossil fuel multinational TotalEnergies in Cabo Delgado. 

In that area – specifically on the Afungi Peninsula in northern Mozambique – the company began operations in 2019 to build the Mozambique LNG fossil gas extraction and liquefaction project. The project was suspended in 2021 due to force majeure caused by the ongoing regional conflict and was only resumed last November. It is worth noting that over the past eight years, the armed insurgency and the Mozambican military’s response have displaced more than one million people and caused approximately 4,000 civilian casualties in the north of the African country.

Between January and April 2024, a UN agency focused on sexual and reproductive health collected testimonies describing incidents of abuse, including how women and........

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