YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A jihadist campaign mostly targeting Christians in northern Mozambique is being overlooked amid the global focus on the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.

“The biggest risk is that will be forgotten due to other wars in the world," said Bishop António Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo of Pemba in the northern Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique.

The bishop described that in his own diocese whole villages have been destroyed, causing thousands of people to flee.

Amid spiralling violence and what he describes as a “population exodus”, Juliasse said that missionaries are joining the fleeing population in an effort to minister to their needs in exile.