By April 2021, Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP, also known as al-Shabaab or Ansar al-Sunnah) had reached the zenith of its territorial expanse. Following years of kidnappings, raids, and escalating offensives, the group had seized key towns and transport routes across Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. That month, ISMP’s assault on Palma, a town near a US $20 billion international liquefied […]