Total and Maputo worlds apart on the future of Mozambique LNG

• NIGERIA - Bimbola Kolawole, a rising energy expert

• MOZAMBIQUE - Ernesto Max Elias Tonela, Nyusi's rep in Paris

• RWANDA - Tesi Rusagara, the builder of Kigali Innovation City

What will become of TotalEnergies' Breuillac and Terraz when Max Ndong joins as Mr Africa? 

The changes at the top of the French major have been precipitated by the desire of Arnaud Breuillac, the group's number 2, to take a step back earlier than planned.

Total's Mozambique manager Ronan Bescond ponders his future while all projects are frozen 

Total's CEO intended to replace its local management, but the events on 24 March in Palma changed everything.

Consortium hired to dismantle Total's LNG project 

TechnipFMC, the French major subcontractor on its vast gas project that is now in limbo, have hired a group of firms to take down and remove the infrastructure still in Palma.

TechnipFMC leaves ENI in the lurch on Coral FLNG 

The French-US oil services giant has decided to follow the general retreat from Mozambique's Cabo Delgado region begun by Total.

Total tells its subcontractors to pack up and leave Cabo Delgado 

The Afungi gas site is likely to remain dormant for at least a year. Total has no faith in the Mozambican army's capacity to restore order there any time soon.

Alarmed by Mozambique's crisis, Museveni offers Total extra security for Tilenga 

The Ugandan president is ramping up surveillance of the ADF to make sure Total does not experience the same plight as its facilities in Mozambique's troubled Cabo Delgado province.

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.