Mozambique’s jihadists force Total to suspend gas project

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique’s jihadist violence has forced the French energy firm Total to suspend work at its multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas project in the country’s northern Cabo Delgado province. After the rebels’ Jan. 1 attack on Quitunda village, just outside the fence of the gas project, the company removed most of its workforce, estimated at 3,000, from the Afungi peninsula. The insurgents, allied with the Islamic State group, have carried out a strin