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Total CEO Patrick Pouyanné turns up the heat on Filipe Nyusi

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“Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare”

MOZAMBIQUE

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

The development of Cabo Delgado province's vast gas resources has brought with it the emergence of an armed insurgency, one that is yet to be clearly defined but is already impinging on Total and ExxonMobil's operations there. As the conflict worsens, President Nyusi has been prompted to seek foreign help.

Cabo Delgado is now a no-go zone for Total. Its giant LNG project is on hold until Mozambique can guarantee safety in the province. [...] (337 words)

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MOZAMBIQUE
Denis Favier
Dyck Advisory Group
Erik Prince
Filipe Nyusi
Frontier Services Group
John Magufuli
Nicolas Terraz
Patrick Pouyanné
Total
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Nyusi's private soldiers fly on Total's airline

To train Filipe Nyusi's soldiers in counter-insurgency operations, foreign service providers to the Mozambican army are travelling to Cabo Delgado with the help of Solenta, the transport company employed by Total, which operates the Afungi gas operations.

MOZAMBIQUE Energy 11/01/2021

Total sends top security team for urgent talks with Maputo

Faced with the inefficiency of the Mozambican defence forces, Total wants fresh guarantees, otherwise the Afungi LNG plant project could be put on hold.

The Total gas project in Mozambique. © Total

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MOZAMBIQUE Defence Energy 07/01/2021

Total calls on army to secure Afungi facility site in Cabo Delgado

As the jihadist insurgency's attacks approach its gas facilities, Total has turned to the country's armed forces. For their part, the Mozambican authorities have been using foreign mercenaries.

MOZAMBIQUE Energy 30/11/2020

Nyusi leaves local development of Cabo Delgado gas in limbo

The president's narrow focus on future gas revenues has left local and international firms dismayed over the neglect of industrialisation and diversification.

MOZAMBIQUE Diplomacy 30/09/2020

Cabo Delgado: Nyusi still prefers private military to EU assistance

Portugal would like to somehow get involved in military operations in Cabo Delgado, as would France, which wants to defend Total's interests there. But President Filipe Nyusi is refusing any such foreign state participation and is exclusively relying on the Dyck Advisory Group

Some of the 250 packets of heroin (342.5 kg) coming in from Mozambique seized in South Africa in the beginning of September 2020. © Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (HAWKS)/South African Police Service/All rights reserved

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MOZAMBIQUE Energy 11/09/2020

Heroin now Total's chief security challenge in Cabo Delgado

The French major has decided to help Mozambique tackle rampant drug trafficking in gas-rich Cabo Delgado, where narcotics fund Islamist insurgents.

MOZAMBIQUE Defence Politics 06/09/2019

Erik Prince makes up for army shortcomings

South Africans have stepped in to supply the army with two helicopters, and Erik Prince is in the thick of it.

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