Jihadists in northern Mozambique have stepped up an insurgency aimed at carving out a caliphate in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado. The campaign has claimed more than 2,400 lives, according to the US-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) group,...

Mozambican soldiers on Thursday repelled Islamist militants that attacked and occupied a northern village in their closest raid yet to a giant gas project, military sources said. The jihadists launched the assault late Monday on the village of Mute, located about 20...

Leaders from southern African countries met for urgent security talks on Friday and agreed on a "regional response" to the Islamist insurgency ravaging parts of northern Mozambique. Five presidents conferred for an extraordinary summit in the Botswana capital Gaborone...

Tanzania and Mozambique have reached an agreement to join forces to fight extremist violence that has claimed hundreds of lives in the two neighbouring countries, Mozambican state media said Monday. Their respective police chiefs met at the weekend in Tanzania's...