The national army's disastrous handling of the Islamist insurrection in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province since 2017 has forced President Filipe Nyusi to gradually overhaul his diplomatic corps in order to convey the "right messages" to leaders in Africa and the West. The FRELIMO party that has ruled the country since its independence from Portugal in 1975 is being slammed from within and without for the army's fumbling on top of intelligence failings. Without the help of Rwanda and the Southern