Mozambique is reluctant to accept troops from neighbouring member states of the Southern Africa Development Community to fight Islamic insurgents in the north of the country, after retaking the town of Palma that had fallen to the militia a fortnight ago.
President Filipe Nyusi last week gave the strongest hint yet that his country would only accept technical support from the international community to fight the insurgents as his government declared that Palma was now “under the control of the state.”
