MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 15 MARCH 2021 – 21 MARCH 2021

The emergence of the instability in Mozambique as a new security threat on Africa’s east coast has attracted military assistance from Russia, the US, Portugal, France, Australia and South Africa. An expansion of an Islamist insurgency to the country’s onshore and offshore gas assets – including Indian investments – could lead to militarisation of the Mozambique Channel, one of the world’s busiest maritime choke point