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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The European Union has granted Mozambique’s request for assistance in tackling a wave of attacks in the country’s north by rebels with links to Islamic State, the EU delegation in the southern African country said.
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium August 21, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Militant attacks in Cabo Delgado province date to 2017 but the violence has gathered pace this year, with insurgents seizing important towns for brief periods and hitting military and other key targets.
Mozambique wrote to the EU in September to ask for help in training its armed forces to battle the insurgency.
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Mozambique expels UK journalist covering insurgency Published on Share
A British journalist covering an insurgency in northern Mozambique has been expelled and banished from the country, he tweeted on Tuesday, days after his accreditation was revoked over alleged irregularities.
Tom Bowker, co-founder of anglophone Mozambican news website Zitamar News, had his foreign correspondent card withdrawn on January 29 a move he has denounced as “politically motivated”.
At the time, Mozambique’s government said Bowker a former Bloomberg correspondent for the country was unable to prove the “legal existence” of Zitamar News, which is run between London and Maputo.
Bowker announced his departure from the southeast African country on Twitter, ostensibly just before boarding his outbound flight.
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