The images quickly made the rounds on social media: members of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) in Mozambique, proudly posing on the coast of Mocimboa da Praia with some of their counterparts from the Mozambican army, wearing camouflage uniforms adorned with the Rwandan flag.
Mocimboa da Praia, a port city in northeastern Mozambique with a population of 127,000, had become a strategic holdout for the jihadist insurgency in Cabo Delgado province.
