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Owen Gagare Share Families wait outside the port of Pemba on April 1 for a boat of evacuees from the coast of Palma, Mozambique. So far, Islamic State-affiliated insurgents have killed more than 2 000 people and displaced more than 750 000. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP
Following the recent military siege on the Mozambican northern town of Palma by Islamic State-linked insurgents who have killed dozens of people, including a Zimbabwean and a South African, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have deployed special forces to the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.
Security sources told The NewsHawks this week that Zimbabwe deployed special combat forces to help Mozambicans with the Palma “sweeping campaign” at the end of last month, a week after the deadly attack.