Mozambique: Police Deny Alleged Terrorist Infiltration

Maputo — The Mozambican police have categorically denied reports in a South African paper that terrorists from the self-styled “Islamic State”, or ISIS, have infiltrated northern Mozambique.

The paper, the “Lowvelder”, published in Mbombela, capital of the eastern South African province of Mpumalanga, claimed that a group of 90 “well trained ISIS fighters” had infiltrated the north of the country in the previous month and had made their way to the port of Nacala.

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