Mozambique

From Benin to Mozambique, President Paul Kagame is flexing his small country’s military muscle—and transforming the continent’s security landscape.

As civil war spreads, Kenya and the African Union are trying to broker a cease-fire.

With jihadist groups on the rise, African leaders from Nigeria to Mozambique are worried about maintaining stability.

And that makes it all the more challenging to get to grips with.

What happens there could decide the fate of terrorism—or peace—in Africa.

The group may be defeated in Syria and Iraq, but joining it still offers major dividends to local jihadis in Africa.

If the world really cares about the continent’s future, it will start paying attention now.

Militants and mercenaries have killed thousands in the country’s north—and the government has done little to halt the violence.

State-owned oil companies are on the verge of investing $400 billion in projects incompatible with the Paris Agreement. If they fail, it could spark an emerging market debt crisis.

The World Food Program will need more than a Nobel Prize to feed the millions who are newly food-insecure.

Without a coherent counterterrorism strategy or regional assistance, the odds are stacked against the Mozambican military.

Rising extremist violence in the country’s oil-rich north threatens stability in southern Africa—and requires a coordinated response.

The coronavirus arrived late to the continent, but the early responses could backfire.

Donor countries and international organizations are propping up a corrupt government rather than criticizing it—leaving millions of Mozambicans mired in poverty.

The rush to link regional groups to the Islamic State could make militancy worse.

The historic tropical storm killed hundreds and left an area of more than 800 square miles covered in water.

The government says everything’s fine. But that’s not what we heard from its victims.

Some 40 percent of the world’s rubies lie in one mining concession in Mozambique, where a troubling pattern of violence and death contradicts the claim of “responsibly sourced.”