Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab's defense team on Thursday welcomed a West African court's decision to move his site of detention due to deteriorating health from cancer, but questioned why it took almost a year to do so

Despite the recent recapture of Mozambique's port town of Mocimboa da Praia from the Al-Shabaab militant group (linked to the Islamic State terrorist organization, banned in Russia), the Islamist insurgency in the country has not yet been stomped out, experts told Sputnik

The security forces of Rwanda and Mozambique have killed at least 70 insurgents while recapturing the Mozambican port town of Mocimboa da Praia, a military commander from Mozambique's resettlement village of Quitunda told Sputnik on Monday

Hundreds of people who fled the violence in the coastal Mozambican town of Palma and are currently in the Macimboa da Praia camp in Cabo Delgado, the country's northernmost province, miss their previous way of life and want things to get back to normal again, the attack survivors told Sputnik

Russian Ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova on Tuesday called on her counterpart from Cape Verde, Jose Carlos Delgado, to facilitate the possible transfer of 11 jailed Russian sailors, who are guilty of drug trafficking, to their home country

Russian diplomats visited 11 Russian sailors who were detained last week by the authorities of Cape Verde on suspicion of drug-trafficking, the Russian Embassy in Praia told Sputnik Tuesday