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US Offers Resources to Help 'Contain, Degrade and Defeat' Mozambique
Insurgency

Anita Powell

   JOHANNESBURG - A top U.S. counterterrorism official has expressed
   concern about the deteriorating situation in Mozambique, where an
   Islamic State-affiliated terror group has captured territory in the
   country's northeast since appearing three years ago.

   The group's actions have led to the displacement of more than 400,000
   people and the deaths of more than 2,000 in the Cabo Delgado region.
   The conflict has recently spread to neighboring Tanzania, raising the
   potential of destabilizing part of southern Africa and boosting a group
   with declared ties to the Islamic State.

   Ambassador-at-Large Nathan Sales, the U.S. coordinator for
   counterterrorism, recently visited Mozambique and South Africa to see
   how the United States can help "contain, degradeand defeat" the growing
   movement. With a situation this complicated, he said, a military
   solution is not enough. He spoke to reporters via teleconferencefrom
   Washington on Tuesday.

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