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Reports suggest that Russian mercenaries have been forced to retreat by Jihadist insurgents operating in the North of the country. The soldiers, belonging to the shadowy private Wagner Group, have pulled back after a number of men were killed in military operations. The attacks were ambushes in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado state, where the so-called Islamic State Group first announced its presence in June this year. Mark Galeotti is a Senior Associate Fellow at the independent think tank on international defence and security, RUSI, and an expert on modern Russia. He explained James Copnall what Russian mercenaries were doing in Mozambique.

(Photo: Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group. Credit: Getty Images)