A few days ago, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi sounded alarmed when talking about the largest attack in years by rebels on the northern town of Macomia.
The town is in Cabo Delgado, a gas and mineral-rich northern province where groups linked to the ISIL (ISIS) group, also called Ansar al-Sunna, launched a rebellion in 2017. The rebels forced French energy giant Total to suspend its $20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique.
