Presidential Frontrunner Plans Talks to End Mozambique Militancy
- Islamic State-backed rebels caused $20 Billion LNG plan halt
- Mozambique holds elections Oct. 9, with Chapo expected to win
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Daniel Chapo, the ruling-party candidate in Mozambique’s Oct. 9 presidential election, said he favors talks to end an Islamic State-backed insurgency that’s delayed TotalEnergies SE’s planned $20 billion liquefied natural gas export project in the northeast of the country.
The government in the southeast African nation has struggled to contain the insurgency that in 2021 prompted a group led by TotalEnergies to halt work on what was Africa’s biggest private investment, and evacuate its workers. Chapo, a lawyer, said he would employ a two-pronged strategy to end the rebellion.