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 African country, because of porous borders and a coastline that’s largely unpoliced.
This, even as thousands of troops from the region, plus Rwanda, claim notable victories over the insurgents, killing and capturing many, but driving them into previously peaceful areas where they’ve set up new bases….