In 2010–2011, Anadarko Petroleum and Eni discovered the Mamba South gas field, recoverable reserves of 4,200 billion cubic metres (150 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas in the Rovuma Basin, off the coast of northern Cabo Delgado Province. Once developed, this could make Mozambique one of the largest producers of liquefied natural gas in the world
Mozambique gave France's Total Energy control over the extraction process
In 2017 Mozambique received gas developement bids (power plants, fertilizer, plastics etc) from 14 companies and chose 3 of them:
Norway’s Yara International
UK's GL Africa Energy
USA's Shell Mozambique
Doesn't appear to have any Russia or China involvement. An islamist insurgancy started in Cabo Delgado Province around 2017. I'm sure it's a complete coincidence the worlds largest NG reserve is also located in Cabo Delgado Province.
I'm with you on this. On the one hand an ambassador is just a foreign policy communicator and doesn't or shouldn't make policy but if this is meant to signal Trump's middle east plans this is very very bad. Since it's early in the game I'm really hoping this is just red meat to the baby burning evangelical base. I'm not a believer but if you told me mike huckster had the mark of the beast I wouldn't be suprised. Fuck.