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A Tanzanian terrorist leader known as Ali has been arrested in Nangade district in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambican troops said. Ali, 39-year-old was captured with six other Islamic State group-linked insurgents, military officials say. The terrorist’s capture comes amid a deteriorating security situation in the district, with …

Islamist militants are blamed of beheading a church leader in the Macomia district of the gas-rich northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, local media reported. Last Wednesday, a resident of Nova Zambézia village went to the district police command, carrying a bag that contained a human head belonging to her …

The Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has appointed Amade Miquidade, an interior minister recently sacked as the country’s high commissioner to Rwanda. Amade Miquidade was dismissed from office last week and was replaced by the country’s first woman interior minister, Arsenia Massingue, two days later. Before his dismissal, he was one …

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has appointed Arsenia Felicidade Felix Massingue as the country’s first female interior minister and Cristóvão Artur Chume as national defence minister. The previous ministers in charge of defence and interior security were both sacked this week. Mr Chume is a major-general noted for commanding the forces …

Southern African Development Community (SADC) troops rescued forty-seven people who had been kidnapped in northern Mozambique by Islamists. There was no confrontation between SADC troops and the Islamic State-linked militants, because the five hostage-takers fled when they realised the presence of the regional force, reports say. Read also: Cambridge to …

Islamist militants have kidnapped seven women from a village in the Mozambican northern province of Cabo Delgado, local media reports. Southern African troops launched a rescue mission but they were unable to find the captives. In a separate incident, the insurgents attacked a village in Mueda district, looting food and …

The Rwandan President Paul Kagame has visited the Rwandan troops which are backing the Mozambican forces to fight terrorists in the country. Paul Kagame has offered to keep Rwandan forces in Cabo Delgado if they’ll be needed as internally displaced people are resettled, BBC News reports. Rwandan forces have made …

The United Nations said it is concerned over people returning to the restive northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado as it is still unclear whether the ongoing military operation has reduced jihadist groups’ capacity to stage attacks there. The caution by the UN’s Department of Safety and Security comes at …

The city of Palma in northern Mozambique has now benefited from United Nations humanitarian aid since the massive attack on the coastal city in March by Islamist militants. More than 2,000 families received food packages in Palma in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, BBC News reports. Aid workers have struggled …

The banking services which had been discontinued due to insecurity in the region and a lack of electricity supply, have been restored in the northern Mozambican town of Mueda in the restive Cabo Delgado province. Local media say civil servants living in the area used to travel to Montepuez, 220km …