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(Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg)
Mozambican businesses looking to cash in on Africaâs biggest private investment are facing disaster after an attack by Islamic State-linked militants on a town close to Total SEâs $20 billion natural gas export project.
The French oil major has begun terminating business with at least some contractors working at the project site in Palma in northeastern Mozambique, according to letters seen by Bloomberg. Total declined to comment.
Hours after Total announced on March 24 it was returning to work on its Mozambique liquefied-natural gas project stalled since January because of rising insecurity, more than 100 rebels began a raid on Palma. Dozens of people died, millions of dollars of property was damaged in the ensuing violence, and the company froze its plans to resume the project.
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40,000 displaced in north Mozambique after assault on Palma
ANDREW MELDRUM and TOM BOWKER, By Associated Press
April 20, 2021
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1of8Displaced children attend a class in one of the educational centers set up by a local NGO in Pemba, Mozambique, after they fled attacks in Palma in Northern Mozambique, Monday April 19, 2021. The damage caused by Mozambique s extremist rebels in their deadly assault on the northeastern town of Palma continues to be assessed. More than three weeks after the rebels launched a three-pronged attack, which lasted at least five days, Mozambican police and relief agencies are working to help the thousands uprooted by the violence and restore the town to daily life.APShow MoreShow Less
By ANDREW MELDRUM AND TOM BOWKER | Associated Press | Published: April 20, 2021 JOHANNESBURG Some 40,000 displaced and urgently needing food, work suspended on a multi-billion-dollar gas investment, and scores of dead still being counted. The damage caused by Mozambique s extremist rebels in their deadly assault on the northeastern town of Palma continues to be assessed. Four weeks after the rebels launched a three-pronged attack, which lasted at least five days, Mozambican police and relief agencies are working to help the thousands uprooted by the violence and restore the town to daily life. Although the fighting has ended, Palma does not appear to be completely secure, the rebels still able to make hit and run attacks, according to Cabo Ligado, which reports on the crisis caused by extremist violence in Mozambique s northern Cabo Delgado province.