Mozambique

Mozambique insurgency leader Omar killed by armed forces

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi told a news conference on Friday that Omar had been killed on Tuesday, but cautioned that the fight against the insurgency was not over.

 Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi speaks to reporters ahead of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the US-Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, U.S., December 14, 2022.
Serge Etele, leader of the Beit Yeshourun Community from Cameroon, holds a Torah Scroll.

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 Mozambique military downs IS drones with Israeli anti-drone system

Mozambique military downs IS drones with Israeli anti-drone system

People run after collecting food aid from a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) helicopter in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Nhamatanda village, near Beira, Mozambique, March 26, 2019.

Over 180 people trapped by ISIS-linked forces in Mozambique hotel


ISIS in Mozambique 'beheading' children, reports say

"One mother told the agency she had had to watch as her 12-year-old son was killed in this way close to where she was hiding with her other children."

ISIS fighter beheading boy, 16, in Syria

ISIS spreading in Africa, seizes a city in Mozambique

This slow process of ISIS radicalization has taken place for a year or more.

A fighter of the ISIL holds a flag while standing on an armoured vehicle in Mosul

Questions persist over Hezbollah's alleged involvement in Beirut Blast

A Cypriot businessman with possible ties to Hezbollah affiliated bank could be the owner of the ship that brought the ammonium nitrate that caused the Beirut Blast.

A satellite image shows damages following Tuesday's blast in the port area in Beirut, Lebanon August 5, 2020

Islamic State claims Mozambique attack close to gas projects

Government spokesman Filimao Suaze said the retreating attackers had left a "trail of destruction and dead bodies", and that security had been beefed up in the area.

Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces inspect weapons and munitions recovered at the former positions of the Islamic State militants inside a building at the frontline in Raqqa, Syria October 7, 2017. Picture taken October 7, 2017.

Islamist insurgency in Mozambique escalates attacks, beheadings reported

"They speak of men, in particular, being targeted and beheaded and many, many reports of women and children ... being kidnapped or simply disappearing," a UNHCR spokesperson told a briefing in Geneva

Burnt-out huts are seen at the scene of an armed attack in Chitolo village, Mozambique, July 10, 2018. Picture taken July 10, 2018.

Israeli NGO moves forward with plans to build solar fields in Mozambique

With less than 15% of the country's citizens connected to electrical infrastructure, most people "face chronic poverty" in the region with little means to get themselves out of penury.

Heliostat mirrors reflect the sky in a field at the construction site of a 240 meter (787 feet) solar-power tower in Israel's southern Negev Desert, February 8, 2016. The world's tallest solar-power tower is being built off a highway in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, its backers hoping the tec

United Nations gives Mozambique $13 million for Cyclone Kenneth damage

Cyclone Kenneth - packing storm surges and winds of up to 280 km per hour (174 mph) - struck on Thursday night, destroying almost all the homes on the island.

Damaged buildings are pictured from inside a vehicle after Cyclone Kenneth swept through the region in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique

Floods threaten Mozambique as cyclone hits the country

Aid agencies said they were still struggling to reach victims and work out the extent of the devastation in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

Tropical Cyclone Kenneth approaches the coast of Mozambique

Mozambique cyclone claims more victims as death toll exceeds 400

The floods have left thousands of people scrambling for shelter, food and water.

Survivors of Cyclone Idai arrive at an evacuation centre in Beira, Mozambique, March 21, 2019