Five years after being shut down by a devastating jihadist attack, French petroleum giant TotalEnergies is relaunching a massive gas project in northern Mozambique. Total declared a force majeure in 2021 after a jihadist attack in the northern Cabo Delgado province killed some 800 people. Total is asking the Mozambique government for $4.5 billion in cost overruns linked to the delay. Reportedly the largest private investment in Africa’s energy infrastructure, it already employs 4,000 people, 80 percent of them Mozambique nationals. Security situationNorthern Mozambique has been battered by a bloody jihadist insurgency since late 2017.