Palma, Mozambique – It was late afternoon and darkness was approaching when Awa Salama* heard pops of gunfire and explosions: The fighters were coming. Together, the LNG project and conflict are a “double attack” on the livelihoods of people like Salama, said Julio Bicheche of the Farmers Union Cabo Delgado. They added that TotalEnergies “fails to accurately assess the potential …
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Around 65,000 tonnes of LNG imported from the UAE was exchanged for yuan in the trade between China’s national oil company CNOOC and France’s TotalEnergies. A prominent economist, speaking to the website The Cradle anonymously, said, “The French either resorted to the yuan due to the acute shortage of Russian gas supplies to the European continent, or they have reserves …
UNITED NATIONS — African nations called on the world Tuesday to pay attention to how terrorism targeted their continent, particularly its Sahel region, telling the United Nations Security Council that Africans made up nearly half the world’s terror attack victims. Using his country’s bully pulpit as Security Council chair for March, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi told the council that “though …