Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Thursday to help Mozambique counter a jihadist insurgency in the north of the country. "Japan will help financially in the fight against terrorism," Kishida said at a news conference in the capital Maputo, the latest stop on his Africa tour. Mozambique has placed high hopes on vast natural gas deposits - the largest discovered south of the Sahara - found in the Muslim-majority northern province in 2010. If all the fields are exploited, Mozambique could become one of the world's top ten gas exporting countries, according to estimates. Japan is the world's largest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), a title it normally shares with China.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 05, 2023 15:38 UTC