At the time, he forged good relations in the Mozambican governing party FRELIMO and with later Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
[4] From 2019, DAG became active in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, where they helped to fight a local Islamist insurgency.
The company was hired by police chief Bernardino Rafael to help train local policemen and fight the rebels.
[7] In 2021, Amnesty International (AI) reported that during operations in Mozambique, DAG's operatives fired machine guns from helicopters and dropped hand grenades indiscriminately into crowds of people, as well as repeatedly firing at civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and homes.
[3][8] In the Battle of Palma of March and April 2021, the company assisted the Mozambican military and police forces in combating the attacking insurgents.