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The joint venture provides unarmed guarding services at the USD20bn liquefied natural gas development in Cabo Delgado province. The security company is backed by Rwanda’s ruling party. has been hired to guard TotalEnergie’s giant gas project in Mozambique.
Rwanda is tasked with the responsibility of guarding the TotalEnergies giant gas plant in Mozambique from Islamic insurgents. Interestingly, there is a political context to this development. The task of protecting the giant edifice is assigned to a joint venture Isco Segurança, a joint venture between Rwanda’s Isco Global Limited and a local Mozambican company.
The joint venture provides unarmed guarding services at the US$20bn liquefied natural gas development in Cabo Delgado province. The security company is backed by Rwanda’s ruling party. has been hired to guard TotalEnergie’s giant gas project in Mozambique.
Following an attack on the massive installation, supposed to change the future of Mozambique, the Rwanda-Mozambique joint venture has deployed more than 4,000 troops to secure the region under an agreement between Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame.
The Rwandan troops have helped restore security. There is a possibility of the deal going murky since both leaders have not disclosed, so far, the details of the deal, which is estimated to have cost Rwanda hundreds of millions of dollars to date — have been funded. Political analysts feel that the deal will be kept off public scrutiny in Rwanda because of the tight control Paul Kagame, the strong man of Rwanda has over the governance structure.
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Isco Global is one of several Rwandan companies to have established subsidiaries in Mozambique since 2021, in sectors including security, construction and mining. TotalEnergies hopes to restart construction of the Mozambique LNG project this year but for now force majeure remains in place.
