This archive report was first published on 11 November 2021.
Published on November 11, 2021, a British firm, GL Africa Energy, has announced plans to build a $400-million gas power plant in Mozambique.
The 250-megawatt plant will be located in the northeastern province of Nampula, approximately 700 kilometres south of the region affected by an Islamist insurgency.
The project was unveiled at an African energy conference in Cape Town, where Mamadou Goumble of parent company Janus Continental Group stated that the plant will be operational in the second quarter of 2023, providing electricity to more than 500,000 people.
The power plant will primarily serve the region's fishing industry, which currently lacks electricity for cold storage facilities.
However, work on the gas fields has been disrupted due to Islamist unrest, with France's Total suspending its $20 billion investment in Mozambique following a deadly attack in March on the coastal town of Palma.
Over 3,100 soldiers from Africa, Europe, and the US have been deployed to Cabo Delgado province to quell the unrest, which has resulted in the deaths of at least 3,340 people and displaced over 800,000 since 2017.
