A group led by TotalEnergies will likely resume work on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique early this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, after a raid by Islamic State-linked militants led to a near-three-year freeze on the more-than $20 billion project. Mozambique’s government in 2021 called for military help from the 16-member Southern African Development Community bloc, and separately from Rwanda. Since then, the troops have dislodged the insurgents from towns they held and killed senior leaders. Hundreds of thousands of people who’d fled the violence have returned.