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The Southern African Development Community (SADC), has agreed to extend the presence of regional troops fighting militants in the northern part of Mozambique. The Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi has confirmed the extension on Tuesday at the end of an extraordinary summit which was called to assess the performance of the …

Several newspapers in Mozambique report that five members of a family have been hacked to death by suspected jihadists while making a sugar cane-based brew in a village in the north. The five lived in a camp for people displaced by the insurgency in Cabo Delgado province, and were surprised …

Assisted by Rwandan troops, Mozambican forces have rescued more than 100 people who had been taken hostage by militants in northern Mozambique. The hostages, mostly children, women and the elderly, are said to have been held by Islamic State-linked militants, locally known as al-Shaabab, in Mocimboa da Praia district. The …