Cabo Ligado: Insurgents release hostages amid food shortages; India looking for alternatives to Russian coking coal

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 30 March 2022

Agenda:

• Today: President Filipe Nyusi attends the opening ceremony of the annual private sector conference to be held in Maputo until Friday

• Saturday: Launching ceremony of the “National Program for the Massification of the Use of Cooking Gas and the Inauguration of the Filling Unit” in Anchilo, Nampula district

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The latest from Zitamar News:

Cabo Ligado Weekly 21-27 March

• Insurgents continue to threaten communities in Mueda, Macomia, and Nangade districts

• Insurgents release hostages across Macomia, Muidumbe, and Mocímboa da Praia districts as food shortages become increasingly grave

• Matemo Island quarantined while FDS roots out final fighters left on the island

• Interim administrator of Mocímboa da Praia says the district isn’t ready for people to return

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Bank of Mozambique rates decision due this afternoon

Governor Rogério Zandamela to announce monetary policy committee’s decision in a press conference starting at 15:30

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Also in the news:

• Gem mining lacks reliable data, says Gemfields (O País, Gemfields)

• Wife of former civil servant Pedro Taímo received contracts worth millions (Notícias)

• India looking at alternatives to Russian coking coal (The Hindu Business Line)

• Government to revise law to combat money laundering and financing terrorism (AIM)

• Questions raised over contract for renovating Véronica Macamo’s home (MediaFax)