BLANTYRE—The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche earlier this week when Tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi. The next thing she knew, she woke up in the hospital, her head wrapped in bandages and her neck in a brace. “I saw a lot…

BLANTYRE/MAPUTO—Malawi and Mozambique were racing to rescue survivors from Tropical Cyclone Freddy on Wednesday as the death toll rose above 270 from one of the most powerful storms recorded in the southern hemisphere. Freddy tore through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend and was still causing heavy rain on…

JOHANNESBURG—Cyclone Freddy displaced hundreds of people as it battered central Mozambique on Sunday after making landfall for a second time in a month, breaking records for the duration and strength of tropical storms in the southern hemisphere. Communications and electricity supply in the storm area have been cut so the extent of the damage and…

JOHANNESBURG—New intelligence into a jihadist insurgency in Mozambique shows that radical, anti-West religious leaders from across East Africa continue to win recruits for extremists supported by the ISIS international terror network, negating gains made by a regional peacekeeping force. It says hardened terrorists from across Africa still enjoy almost unfettered access to the resource-rich Southern…

Hunted by forces from southern African countries, plus Rwanda, Islamic extremists in Mozambique are splintering into tighter groups, and finding a haven in al-Qaeda training camps in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to security analysts and intelligence operatives. The terrorists, who inhabitants of northern Mozambique call al-Shabab or al-Sunna wa Jama, claim direct…

JOHANNESBURG—It was five days before Christmas, but the 61-armed men creeping gently through the forested hills near the village of Chai in northern Mozambique were not in a holiday mood. Their mission was to “find and engage” jihadist militants linked to Islamic State of Central Africa, whose goal was to make Christian rites a forgotten…

MAPUTO—The death toll from tropical storm Ana has risen to at least 12 in Mozambique and Malawi, authorities said, although officials and aid agencies are still assessing the full impact of the storm that swept through southern Africa on Monday. Mozambique’s National Institute for Management and Disaster Risk Reduction said on Tuesday that eight people…

“The road of Livingstone” is a long journey in the footsteps of the British explorer David Livingstone on the Zambezi River from its mouth in Mozambique to the Victoria waterfalls at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The roads along the Zambezi River are rare and difficult, and elephants, crocodiles, and hippopotamus stay the masters…

JOHANNESBURG—Rebels fought the Mozambican army Sunday for the fifth straight day for control of the strategic northern town of Palma, as reports came in that dozens of civilians have been killed and bodies were littering the streets. The fate of scores of foreign energy workers was also unknown. Some of the dead had been beheaded,…

U.S. special operations forces were deployed to Mozambique on a mission to assist the country in its counter-terrorism operations against an offshoot of the ISIS terrorist group. “The United States is committed to supporting Mozambique with a multifaceted and holistic approach to counter and prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism,” the U.S. Embassy…