Rare interviews with captured members of a jihadist group terrorising northern Mozambique point to low morale in their ranks and to an insurgency that is losing steam in the face of Rwandan forces.
The Rwandan army late last month let journalists interview some of the fighters that it had captured since launching operations in the troubled region last July.
Linked to the so-called Islamic State, the extremist group has rampaged across towns and villages in northern Mozambique since 2017 with the goal of establishing a hardline caliphate.
It is known locally as Al Shabab, although it has no link to the group with a similar name in Somalia.