Religious unrest in Mozambique – in pictures

Next week Pope Francis is due to visit northern Mozambique, an area devastated by cyclones and riven by an Islamist insurgency. The photographer Marco Longari filed these images from the region

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Main image: A woman stands holding her child in a burnt-out area in Aldeia da Paz Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty

  • A girl queues for holy communion during Sunday mass at the Immaculate Conception church in Mocimboa da Praia