EU ambassadors on Wednesday gave the green light to setting up a military mission in Mozambique to help train its armed forces battling jihadists in the north of the country, diplomats said. A deadly insurgency by militants linked to the Islamic State group has...

Mozambique jihadists attack as bloc approves force deployment Islamist militants clashed with Mozambican government forces in a new bout of attacks in Palma district near a multi-million-dollar gas plant, military and security sources told AFP Wednesday. The clashes...

The United Nations raised the alarm on Monday over reports that Tanzania forcibly returned hundreds of Mozambicans fleeing jihadist raids last month.  Thousands of people fled into surrounding forest when Islamic State-linked militants launched attacks on the...

Islamist militants have seized control of the northern Mozambique town of Palma, near a huge gas project involving French oil major Total and other international energy companies, security sources said on Saturday. In their closest attack to the gas project in the...