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 affiliation to ISIS.
They’re being helped by several international terror networks to keep their insurgency alive, said Dino Mahtani, senior African terrorism researcher for the International Crisis Group.
Human Rights Watch and other violence monitors say about 4,000 people have been killed and 800,000 internally displaced since October 2017, which is when President Felipe Nyusi’s Frelimo party government said an “Islamic terrorist jihad” aimed at establishing sharia law in northern Mozambique began….