The United States provided the tip of the threat to the “Eras” tour concerts, which have been cancelled, the US administration said
Explosives and detonators were found in a search of the main suspect’s apartment, authorities said
With the change in leadership of Frelimo, the country is likely to have a new president after the elections on 9 October
Nearly 200 000 people have fled their homes since the beginning of this month as clashes between militia and government loyalist groups intensify
A woman who went to Syria to rescue her brother’s children is being held in horrific conditions
At least 10 people were killed and 39 wounded on Sunday in a bomb attack on a church in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo claimed by Islamic State jihadists. Congolese…
Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela uses the continent’s security problems as a prism through which to cast his dark agenda against Israel into the minds of Africa’s youth
The world’s poorest country is nevertheless host to 61 000 Malians who fled jihadist attacks
The strife in Cabo Delgado has displaced more than 800 000 people. Some have found their way to the Rapale transit centre, where they are struggling to survive as foreign and…
Informal banking and trade are both a lifeline for local communities and a grey area for terror financing, requiring progressive efforts to develop rather than de-risk
When 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from a remote area in Nigeria, the world called for their rescue. A new book, Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the…
Counter-insurgency and foreign interference foment extremism and rarely achieve peace
Mozambique is starting to accept it needs more than private military aid to fight the Islamic State insurgency
South Africa was willing to assist, but the Mozambican government would not allow foreign military forces to get involved
14 people accused of helping jihadist gunmen storm the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket went on trial on Wednesday, five years after three days of…
Can Frelimo and its backers continue to profit from a failing state while an armed insurgency rages in northern Mozambique? And will South Africa help prop them up?
The SADC has been lackadaisical in its response to the insurgency in Mozambique and in so doing, is putting several other southern African countries at risk
Although the overall rate of conflict has remained steady in Africa during the past 10 weeks of the pandemic, the nature of this is changing in subtle but significant ways
A survivor tells of how Islamists carrying AK-47s arrived on motorbikes, forced fleeing children to lie on the ground and beat teachers before setting a building on fire
The violence in Cabo Delgado province by al-Shabaab (the youth) can be linked to jihadist influence, the continued marginalisation of Muslim people, and the lure of income from…
