Zimbabwe to Dispatch Troops to Help Mozambique Fight Insurgency

  • Nation to send 304 soliders to join others from SADC
  • Mozambique has been battling a near four-year-old insurgency

Volunteers from a local NGO distribute food at a municipal pavilion where refugees are sheltered in Pemba, Mozambique, after they fled attacks in Palma in Northern Mozambique, on April 19. 

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Zimbabwe plans to dispatch 304 soldiers to join the Southern African Development Community Standby Force in Mozambique that’s helping to fight a terrorist insurgency that’s left more than 3,000 people dead and halted Africa’s biggest private investment yet.