Murdoch can only dream of having the Russian setup with government and media, and that is expressed in his NYPost today:

Russian official admits staging bogus yeti sightings to attract tourists to Siberia

By Yaron Steinbuch April 9, 2021; text at link, here's the vid:

uh oh

this could really be a problem for many "Woke" of the "Decolonize This Place" variety, especially when someone starts comparing the new Chinese textbooks and their own...

Escaped girls tell of insurgents’ mass abductions in Mozambique

Interviews undermine the US state department claim that extremist group has links to Islamic State

Jason Burke @ TheGuardian.com, Sat 17 Apr 2021 13.48 BST

Insurgents in Mozambique have abducted hundreds of women and girls, forcing many into sexual relations with fighters and possibly trafficking others elsewhere in Africa, interviews with some who have escaped the extremists reveal.

Most of the abducted women are under 18, with the youngest about 12 years old. They are being held in a series of camps and bases across insurgent-controlled territory in north-eastern Mozambique.

Many are chosen by young fighters as “wives” and forced into sexual relations. Conditions are extremely harsh, with limited medical care, long marches under guard, unreliable food supplies and a constant risk of attacks by government forces or mercenaries.

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The insurgency in Mozambique’s far north, which started four years ago, has killed thousands and displaced almost half a million people.

The interviews, conducted with 23 women last year by researchers from the Observatório do Meio Rural (Rural Environment Observatory), a Mozambique-based thinktank, offer an unprecedented glimpse inside an opaque and little-known group.

“This is the first time we have heard from people who have been inside,” said Joe Hanlon, an expert on Mozambique at the London School of Economics. The research also casts new light on the leadership of the insurgents, and appears to undermine claims by the US government and others that they have close ties with Islamic State.

João Feijó, author of a report based on the interviews, said that he believed more than 1,000 girls and young women had been abducted.

“These kinds of numbers would be a major logistic problem for the insurgents, and I believe that some girls have been trafficked. We have reports of women being selected to study English in neighbouring Tanzania, which sounds like a euphemism for being trafficked,” Feijó said.

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The recent successes of the insurgents in Mozambique – whose organisation is known as both al-Shabaab and Ansar al-Sunna – have prompted global fears of a new extremist Islamist enclave in southern Africa.

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Interviewees said that many of the leaders of the extremists in Mozambique were local men, but there were some foreigners from elsewhere on the east African coast, particularly Tanzania. There were also reports of South African nationals, Somalis and others presumed to be from Arab countries in Africa or the Middle East.

They also described the training of abducted teenage boys in the use of machetes and firearms.

One remembered seeing a 14-year-old boy going on his first mission [....]

Maduro gives the international community the opening it's been waiting for:

Russia Expels 20 Czech Diplomats as Tensions Escalate & further reporting on the activities of GRU Unit 29155: