Mozambique

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has pledged the continued support of his country's armed forces for the fight against islamist terrorism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.

The Mozambique parliament has approved a bill that legalizes the involvement of local militias in the fight against jihadists in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. Defense Minister Cristóvão Chume, who presented the bill in parliament, admitted that the Mozambican army alone is not able to deal with the jihadists.

With outside attention focused on violent extremism and gas exports, Mozambique’s democratic backsliding is proceeding apace.

Since 2017, a destabilising Islamist insurgency against Mozambican government forces and the local population has ravaged the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado. … This is an update of an 'at a glance' note published in July 2021.

The European Union will provide additional support for an African military mission in Mozambique as Islamist attacks threaten gas projects designed to reduce the EU's dependence on Russian energy resources.

New field research in Cabo Delgado sheds light on one of Africa’s least understood violent conflicts.

[…] The Islamist militant movement in northern Mozambique is spreading to new territory despite efforts by government and regional forces to contain it. … Nampula is now the third province of northern Mozambique where terrorist attacks have displaced villagers, following Cabo Delgado and Niassa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as the outgoing Chair of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, has said he is pleased with progress made in pushing back the insurgents in the Cabo Delgado area of the Republic of Mozambique.

Southern African and Rwandan regional forces which have been fighting in Mozambique's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado since July 2021 are dispersing Isis-affiliated insurgents -- but also driving them further west and south, displacing more civilians and threatening commercial mines.

Southern African countries agreed on Thursday to extend their troop deployment in Mozambique for another month to help it fight an Islamic State-linked insurgency.