Mozambican leader Filipe Nyusi meets Total CEO about worsening violence
For more than a month, militants have occupied a town about 60km from where Total is spending $20bn to extract natural gas from below the ocean
18 September 2020 - 18:01
Maputo — Total CEO Patrick Pouyanné and Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi met to discuss an intensifying Islamic State-linked insurgency in the country’s north, where the French oil giant is building a huge natural-gas project.
For more than a month, militants have occupied a town about 60km south of where Total is spending $20bn to extract natural gas from below the ocean and export it to European and Asian customers. The violence is now creeping towards Total’s Mozambique LNG project in the far northeast...
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