Mozambique: Resumption of $20bn Cabo Delgado Gas Project Reignites Both Hope and Resentment

The resumption of one of the world’s biggest gas projects by French energy giant TotalEnergies, after a five-year suspension following a deadly jihadist attack, has raised hopes of jobs and prosperity in northern Mozambique. But this second instalment of Mozambique Exposed – an investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, to which RFI contributed – questions whether the country’s vast gas wealth will benefit local communities.

It is barely 7am in the departure lounge at Pemba airport in…