Mozambique’s national flag features a Kalashnikov; a symbol, perhaps, of the country’s often violent history. Over 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule faded into a brutal civil war. Today Islamic terrorists threaten both peace and economic growth. More than a million people were killed in Mozambique’s civil war which dragged on for nearly two decades before peace was signed in 1992. Since then the country has tried to move on, but recently insurgents have caused tensions to flare in the north of the country, which is majority Muslim. Some jihadist groups have allied themselves with so called Islamic State, the IS. Several thousand fighters have spread terror through the region. As a result, thousands of people have been killed and almost a million displaced. The Rwandan army, the most
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