Capture of Mocímboa da Praia port by IS-linked militants sounds alarm bells

CATEGORY: AISA
DATE: 20 August 2020
AUTHOR: IOL News

Durban - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) must urgently intervene in Mozambique as the country faces a growing threat of Islamic State of Iraq (IS)-linked terrorism that could give the extremist group a foothold to expand in the region.

This was the warning from a panel of experts on security and armed conflict at the Human Sciences Research Council’s Africa Institute of SA unit during a webinar this week on growing violent extremism in Mozambique.

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