US oil giant Exxon Mobil says it is giving aid worth $50,000 (£38,000) to help families displaced by the militant Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado.
The company will work with non-governmental organisation Makobo and local authorities to build two satellite kitchens that will cook 20,000 meals a day, it says in a statement.
About 1,000 people have been killed and 300,000 left homeless since the insurgency began in 2017.
Exxon Mobil is a major investor in the development of natural gas projects worth $60bn off the coast of Cabo Delgado.
About two weeks ago, the government said its troops had regained control of the key port of Mocimboa da Praia, following multiple reports that it had fallen to the militants known locally as al-Shabab.
The militants have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.
Source: BBC
