LONDON — The U.K. has pulled out of funding a major gas project in Mozambique, the government confirmed Monday.
Business Secretary Peter Kyle has overturned plans to provide more than $1 billion in support for the liquefied natural gas project, which is run by French energy giant TotalEnergies.
In March 2021, a Mozambican ISIS group attacked the town of Palma, adjacent to the gas plant, where thousands of project workers were based, killing 1,354 people and abducting another 209. A total of 330 people were beheaded.
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Among the dead were 55 workers on Total’s project, according to a house-to-house survey carried out by POLITICO.
