In recent discussions with investors, Total officials insisted on the need to find solutions so that the region can experience real improvements in the standard of living from the beginning and not just after the "first gas", expected to happen five years after the recovery. Total claims to have involved 4,000 locals in the initial works until the suspension for "force majeure". The aim of involving the populations in the project is to ensure that the Islamic-inspired armed groups active in the province are incapable of recruiting and recovering ground, and thus permanently neutralized. READ MORE