Apr 21 2021, 4:11 PM
April 21 2021, 10:30 AM
April 21 2021, 4:11 PM
(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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