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The European Union has agreed to help “strengthen the capacity†of Mozambique’s government in its fight against an escalating insurgency that’s killed more than 2,000 in a region home to Africa’s biggest foreign investments.
The EU gave “a positive
response†to the southeast African nation’s request for assistance, Ambassador Antonio Sanchez-Benedito Gaspar said in a statement. Mozambique had asked for help with logistics, training and humanitarian aid in September, he said.
Companies including Total plan to spend as much as $60 billion on LNG projects in
Cabo Delgado province, where IS-linked extremists have captured major towns and caused more than 310,000 people to flee their homes. The government has struggled to contain the worsening violence, and has relied on private military companies in the war.