US to sanction Isis unit linked to LNG project attack in Mozambique
The US will designate two of the Islamic State’s fast-growing affiliates in coastal and central Africa for the first time, underlining the group’s growing threat to the region and its waters
The US State Department will sanction a group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Mozambique and its leader, Abu Yasser Hassan, as well as another group known as the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant-Democratic Republic of the Congo and its leader, Musa Baluku