Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Battle for Palma: Total pulls out all staff

Battle for Palma: Total pulls out all staff

EMMA RUMNEYT and DAVID LEWIS FRENCH energy major Total has withdrawn all its staff from its Afungi natural gas site in northern Mozambique, according to sources, as clashes between Islamic State-linked fighters and the military rage nearby. The company, which last week called off the planned resumption of construction at the $20 billion development due to the violence, declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. The government says dozens of people have died since militants launched attacks in the coastal town of Palma last week, in a district near gas projects worth tens of billions of dollars that are meant…
Read More
Fighting in Moz gas town rages for 2nd day

Fighting in Moz gas town rages for 2nd day

HELICOPTER gunships exchanged fire with suspected Islamist insurgents as fighting raged for a second day around a gas hub town in northern Mozambique, a security source and a diplomat said. The government said security forces were working to restore order in Palma, which is adjacent to gas projects worth $60 billion led by companies including Total after it came under a three-pronged attack on Wednesday. The attack, in a province that has since 2017 been targeted by Islamist insurgents with links to Islamic State, began hours after the French oil major said it would resume work on the project after…
Read More