Mozambique's Army Is Losing a Crucial Counter-Insurgency Battle

Mozambique's Army Is Losing a Crucial Counter-Insurgency Battle

Analysis - Foreign training has strengthened the army, but abuses against civilians undermine the community support needed to defeat insurgents.

Why Mozambique’s Army Is Losing Ground in Cabo Delgado – Axadle

When terrorists struck northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province nine years ago, the country’s Defence Armed Forces (FADM) were caught off guard, despite having spent three decades fighting internal conflicts, writes Borges Nhamirre, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). Until that assault, Mozambique had largely avoided the terrorist threats confronting other African nations […]