Foreign employees working on French Total’s LNG terminal construction project are among those trapped in a hotel in northern Mozambique which has been besieged by militants for three days.
The coastal town of Palma in northern Mozambique located not far from the Tanzanian border was overrun by Islamist insurgents earlier this week. A local extremist group, known as al-Shabab (and not linked to its Somali namesake), launched a coordinated three-pronged assault on the town on Wednesday, reportedly involving some 100 militants.
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