French energy giant TotalEnergies relaunched construction Thursday on a massive gas project in northern Mozambique that was halted for five years after a jihadist attack that claimed hundreds of lives. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement"I am delighted to announce the full restart of the Mozambique LNG project... The $20 billion project near the border with Tanzania was suspended after a 2021 jihadist attack that killed an estimated 800 people. There are already more than 4,000 workers on site and 80 percent are Mozambican nationals, said Pouyanne, whose company owns a 26.5 percent stake in the Mozambique LNG consortium. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe TotalEnergies gas project is among several in the Cabo Delgado area, with others involving Italian group ENI and the American oil giant ExxonMobil.