Mozambique is top priority for Southern African leaders under the auspices of the SADC.
In Harare on Wednesday, regional bloc leaders met to discuss the growing Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique.
At the day-long meeting leaders of Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique said they had also discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and the security situation in southern Africa, including Lesotho, where Prime Minister Thomas Thabane resigned this week after months of pressure over his alleged role in the murder of his former wife.
But why so much talk about Mozambique lately?
Since 2017, Mozambique has faced a jihadist insurgency that has spread terror in the far north of its territory.