Insurgency

Counter-insurgency and foreign interference foment extremism and rarely achieve peace

South Africa’s new military weapon takes a leaf out of the Libyan rebel forces’ handbook as it lands in Mozambique to fight insurgents

We reveal details of the South African National Defence Force’s contribution to the Southern African Development Community’s military mission to rid Mozambique of insurgents

A new report by the International Crisis Group examines the ongoing insurgency in northern Mozambique and looks at what needs to be done to stop it. The group’s Horn of Africa…

The extremist insurgency in Mozambique has been an ongoing threat since 2017. SADC needs to act now, say analysts

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

Amnesty International has released a report that implicates Al-Shabaab, the military and mercenaries in atrocities in Cabo Delgado province

In a year defined by Covid-19, human rights violations, including massacres of civilians and crackdowns on opposition parties, have plagued these regions

More than 300 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by militants who ransack villages and then burn them down.

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…