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The Mozambican army has regained control of a coastal town that was captured by Islamic State-linked militants about two weeks ago, an official announced on Monday.
African Union Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has called for urgent and coordinated regional and international action against the festering security threat in northern Mozambique that has potential to spread to the rest of southern Africa.
The Islamic State group claimed on Monday that it had captured Mozambique’s coastal town of Palma following days of fighting.
A humanitarian crisis is looming in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province amid reports that thousands of people are fleeing jihadist attacks in the region’s besieged Palma town, which is home to a multi-billion-dollar gas project being developed by a consortium led by French oil and gas major Total.
Mozambique’s security forces have launched an offensive to expel Jihadist militants from a town in the strife-torn northern Cabo Delgado province, the Ministry of Defence announced on Thursday.
The Mozambican government will this year conduct the country’s first-ever census of artisanal miners as part of efforts to better manage activities of players in the sub-sector, Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Max Tonela said on Tuesday.
Mozambique is set to benefit from 26 steel bridges funded by the African Development Bank to replace infrastructure destroyed by cyclones that ravaged the southern African country two years ago, the bank announced on Wednesday.
Rights group Amnesty International (AI) has accused armed militias, government forces and private military contractors of committing war crimes amid allegations of indiscriminate attacks on hundreds of people in the country’s troubled Cabo Delgado.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a grant of US$600,000 to assist in the implementation of climate change resilience projects in Mozambique’s Zambezia province, the bank has announced.
President Filipe Nyusi has described late opposition leader Daviz Simango as one of the “most important voices” in Mozambique’s recent political history.