The attacks in this region of Mozambique have already made at least 1300 dead and 210,000 displaced persons.
jihadists have taken over this Wednesday to Mocimboa da Praia, in northern Mozambique is rich in gas, after a series of recent attacks in this region, according to a news site the local, which was confirmed by a military source to AFP.
“The port of Mocimboa da Praia has been taken by terrorists at dawn Wednesday, according to the website Moz24Horas, information confirmed to AFP by a military source, who stated that “Mocimboa da Praia is fallen” in the hands of the jihadists.
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Using a rocket launcher, the jihadists had hit a boat in the port, according to the military source, who acknowledged that “the situation is complicated”.
Mocimboa da Praia, located in the Cabo Delgado province, is located about 80 km to the south of the peninsula of Afungi, which houses important facilities for the development of liquefied natural gas (LNG), one of the biggest investments in Africa with the participation of the French group Total.
massive Exodus of the inhabitants
in Late June, armed men had killed 8 workers of a private company, CONSTRUCTION and civil engineering working for Total on its gas project of several billion dollars. At the same time, jihadists have already attacked and occupied temporarily Mocimboa da Praia. A previous occupation of the city a few months previously had caused a mass exodus of its inhabitants.
The north of Mozambique is the theatre from 2017, an uprising of the jihadist who has done a thousand dead and hampered the development of the exploitation of its gas reserves offshore. The attacks of the workers working on the projects of development of liquefied natural gas had, however, been rare up until now.
The attacks in this region have already made at least 1300 people dead, according to the NGO, The Armed Conflict, Rental & Event Data Project (ACLED). In may, the united nations has estimated the number of displaced due to these attacks to at least 210 000.
In spite of the turmoil in the region, Total has stated that it would go ahead with his project gas of $ 23 billion.
