{"id":236475,"date":"2026-06-16T05:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-resumption-of-20bn-cabo-delgado-gas-project-reignites-both-hope-and-resentment\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:45:13","slug":"mozambique-resumption-of-20bn-cabo-delgado-gas-project-reignites-both-hope-and-resentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-resumption-of-20bn-cabo-delgado-gas-project-reignites-both-hope-and-resentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Resumption of $20bn Cabo Delgado Gas Project Reignites Both Hope and Resentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\"><em> The resumption of one of the world&#8217;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 &#8211; an investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, to which RFI contributed &#8211; questions whether the country&#8217;s vast gas wealth will benefit local communities. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">It is barely 7am in the departure lounge at Pemba airport in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606150004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resumption of one of the world&#8217;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 &#8211; an investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, to which RFI contributed &#8211; questions whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[51974,258,256,13157,14859,7168,8868,4704,682,257,6504,35312,54629,11982,254],"class_list":["post-236475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-20bn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cabo","tag-delgado","tag-gas","tag-hope","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-reignites","tag-resentment","tag-resumption","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}