How an Insurgency Threatens Mozambique’s Gas Bonanza

Total SA and Eni SpA are forging ahead with plans to tap huge natural gas deposits that were discovered off the northern coast of Mozambique a decade ago. Their projects and another being considered by Exxon Mobil Corp. could entail $60 billion in investment and have the potential to turn around the economy of one of the world’s poorest countries. The developments have coincided with a series of increasingly brazen attacks by Islamist insurgents in the southern African country. While the main pr