Rwandan forces will help secure and rebuild areas of northern Mozambique destroyed by an Islamist insurgency, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said on Friday, as Mozambican officials began encouraging civilians to return to the gas-rich region.
A document compiled in September for UN agencies and other aid groups, seen by Reuters, said it was not clear whether militant capabilities had been much reduced. “Fighting continues in certain locations and civilian authorities have not been re-established,” it added.
But 60km south in the port of Mocimboa da Praia - a hub needed for cargo deliveries for the gas projects - the streets were largely deserted, flanked by windowless, rubble-strewn buildings and overturned military vehicles. Rwivanga said the Rwandans had been moving civilians back into the area they control around a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project run by oil major TotalEnergies , which was forced to a halt by the Palma attack.
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