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To Protect Its Energy Projects, Total Joins Mozambique's Counterterrorism Fight

Aug 25, 2020 | 18:58 GMT

Army vehicles patrol the roads on the outskirts of a village in northern Mozambique on May 26, 2016.

Army vehicles patrol the roads on the outskirts of a village in northern Mozambique on May 26, 2016.

(JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)

Total's decision to support Mozambique's fight against insurgents may help protect its energy facilities from direct attacks, even as it risks the French oil major's reputation while doing little to reduce escalating militant activity in the country's north. On Aug. 24, Toal signed a security agreement with the Mozambican government to protect the $20 billion liquified natural gas (LNG) project it's developing in the country's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado. Under its new pact, Total has agreed to provide logistical support to a newly established joint task force focused guaranteeing the protection of the company’s planned onshore LNG facility, which is located in the Afungi Peninsula near the northern town of Palma. ...

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