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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The European Union (EU) ambassador to Mozambique believes that within \u201cmonths\u201d there will be security in Cabo Delgado for the return of large investments associated to natural gas, he said in an interview with Lusa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Asked whether Mozambique risks losing the opportunity to make a profit from the gas reserves in the Rovuma basin, if it takes years to resolve the armed insurgency in the region, Ant\u00f3nio Gaspar said he preferred to talk \u201cin months rather than years,\u201d until the \u201cnormalisation\u201d of life in Cabo Delgado begins.<\/p>\n

Cabo Delgado \u201cis much safer, no doubt,\u201d he said, since troops from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) began supporting Mozambican forces in 2021.<\/p>\n

The EU is monitoring the situation and maintaining contacts, in coordination with SAMIM (the SADC military mission) and the Rwandan military, which now point to \u201cmore sporadic attacks\u201d by the rebels who have been plaguing the region for four and a half years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that the situation is completely under control. We cannot lower our guard, but it has already improved a lot and the work that is being done by these forces, with Mozambique, is already giving results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, \u201cthere is a lot of long-term work\u201d because \u201cthere may be mixing of insurgents with local residents, the borders [with Tanzania] are still porous\u201d, among \u201cmany other reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I am optimistic,\u201d Ant\u00f3nio Gaspar emphasises.<\/p>\n

The return of oil company Totalenergies, leader of the gas investing consortium, is not in doubt, he said, \u201cit\u2019s a question of [knowing] when. I personally have no doubt\u201d about the return of projects to the Afungi peninsula, suspended a year ago after an attack on the town of Palma.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is those investors and above all Total that has to decide, with all the guarantees. It is true that last time, the attacks near Afungi were a shock\u201d and companies \u201chad to suspend\u201d operations, Ant\u00f3nio Gaspar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, they want to return with all the guarantees,\u201d he adds. \u201cI think Mozambique gas, in the current context, with the EU\u2019s strategic need to drastically reduce and end dependence on hydrocarbons from Russia\u201d gets a new opportunity.<\/p>\n

While he foresees life beginning to return to normal within months, Ant\u00f3nio Gaspar believes that this will happen safely throughout the region.<\/p>\n

The EU ambassador believes that \u201cthere will be no risk of double security\u201d, tighter in the area of the gas projects (Palma district and Moc\u00edmboa da Praia) and less demanding in the rest of the province.<\/p>\n

\u201cCabo Delgado is big, but it is not the Sahel, it is not that space of millions of kilometres where there is no State administration. In Mozambique, the State administration reaches all parts of the country\u201d, he concludes.<\/p>\n

Cabo Delgado province is rich in natural gas, but has been terrorised since 2017 by armed rebels, with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.<\/p>\n

There are 784,000 internally displaced people due to the conflict, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and around 4,000 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.<\/p>\n

Since July 2021, an offensive by government troops with Rwandan support, later joined by SADC, has allowed areas where rebels were present to recover, but their flight has provoked new attacks in other districts used as passage or temporary refuge.<\/p>\n

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