MOZAMBIQUE - HUNDREDS OF WOMEN, GIRLS ABDUCTED

Human Rights Watch say an armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has since 2018 kidnapped and enslaved more than 600 women and girls in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique. Mozambican and regional forces have rescued some of them, but many remain missing. The group, known locally as Al Sunnah wa Jama'ah (ASWJ) and Al-Shabab (or mashababos) forced younger, healthy-looking, and lighter-skinned women and girls in their custody to "marry" their fighters, who enslave and sexually abuse them.