The UN said it would investigate allegations that survivors of a deadly cyclone in Mozambique were forced to have sex with community leaders for food
A mother stand with her children at an evacuation center in Dondo, about 35km north from Beira, Mozambique, on March 27 2019. Picture: AFP/ YASUYOSHI CHIBA
The UN pledge came a day after Human Rights Watch published accounts of female survivors who said they were abused by local leaders and as a second powerful storm, Cyclone Kenneth, pounded the impoverished southeast African nation. Officials from Mozambique's disaster management authority were not immediately available for comment.
The community leaders — believed to be linked to the ruling Frelimo party — demanded money from survivors to have their names included on aid distribution lists, while others coerced women into having sex for a bag of rice, said the rights group.
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