80kg of methamphetamine seized in Nampula; SA troops say they’re ‘treated like prisoners’ in Cabo Delgado military base

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 18 November 2021

Agenda:

• Today: President Filipe Nyusi hosts the opening ceremony of the 2nd Edition of “Crescendo Azul”, in Vilankulo, Inhambane province

• Today: US Army General Stephen J Townsend, commander of US Africa Command (Africom), ends a three-day visit to Maputo

• Today: The fourth Cabo Delgado Reconstruction Plan forum will be held in Pemba

• Tomorrow: Graduation ceremony and 10-year anniversary at the Institute of Defence Studies "Tenente-General Armando Emílio Guebuza", which defence minister Cristóvão Artur Chume and chief of general staff of the armed forces Joaquim Mangrasse will attend

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The latest from Zitamar News:

The dynamics of informal cross-border trade between Cabo Delgado and Mtwara

• The conflict in Cabo Delgado has shifted traditional trade arrangements on either side of the Ruvuma river.

• Local merchants in Cabo Delgado now buy mostly manufactured goods in Tanzania, while food is bought domestically, mostly in Pemba

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Mozambique’s new high commissioner to Rwanda appointed
Amade Miquidade, who was removed from his post as interior minister on 9 November, has been appointed to the role

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The best of the rest:

• 80kg of methamphetamine seized in Nampula (Carta de Moçambique)

• INSS paid more than MZN10m in subsidies to senior administrators (Canal de Moçambique)

• Allowances for Renamo ex-fighters to resume (AIM)

• South African high court likely to reject appeal against Chang’s extradition to the US (Canal de Moçambique, DW)

• ‘The world is watching’ Mozambique, press freedom award winner (Lusa)

• Water prices have increased between 7% and 40% (Verdade)

• Maputo public transport prices to rise (Mediafax)

• Mozambique’s public debt is unsustainable, warns TA (Lusa)

• Mozambique’s agriculture sector is chronically underfunded, say specialists (Mediafax)

• SA troops say they’re ‘treated like prisoners’ in Cabo Delgado military base (Daily News)

80kg of methamphetamine seized in Nampula (Carta de Moçambique)