Maputo, Mozambique: Mozambican soldiers backed by regional forces stormed a rebel base and shot dead 10 insurgents in the country's troubled north at the weekend, the defense minister said. Meanwhile the South African army said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) that one of its soldiers was killed in an ambush while taking part in the fighting. The violence, which took place Sunday, follows several attacks in the last two weeks by jihadists in villages in the Macomia district of the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. The area has been rocked by attacks by Islamic State-linked militants since 2017, killing at least 3,500 people and displacing more than 800,000. But since July, more than 3,100 African, European and US soldiers have been deployed to the northern province to quell the unrest.
