Mozambique: Regional leaders offer ‘technical assistance’

Southern African leaders have begun two days of emergency meetings to discuss how to respond to the Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique, and have offered to send a technical team.

Plus, what next for the victims of post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast, now that former President Laurent Gbagbo and his ally Charles Ble Goude, are free to return home.

And the weekly Letter from Africa comes from Kenya.

Photo: An evacuee from the deadly attack on the Mozambican town of Palma arrives at the sea port of Pemba. Credit: Getty Images.