Cyclone Idai victims in Mozambique allegedly sexually exploited

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Cyclone Idai, the most powerful storm to hit Mozambique in decades, has left women hungry and vulnerable to abuse.

"They would do anything for food, including sleeping with men in charge of the food distribution," the woman told Human Rights Watch.

A second aid worker said her international organisation had received reports of sexual abuse of women not only in their villages, but also in camps for internally displaced people. According to Human Rights Watch, three women in the town of Mbimbir, Nhamatanda district, were forced to have sex with officials in exchange for food.When her name was not on the list for food distribution on April 6, a local man, a Frelimo secretary, told the woman to wait at home and he would see her later"to help her if she helped him too".

The woman told Human Rights Watch that the man later arrived with a bag of rice, a bag of cornflour and one kilo of beans. "When he arrived, he placed the bags on the floor and started touching his thing [penis], and told me it was now my turn thank him.

 

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