Cabo Ligado: Shifting responsibilities in Mozambique’s northern theatre; Mozambique to continue gas supply to South Africa

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 16 December 2021

Agenda:

• Today and tomorrow: The National Institute of Meteorology expects moderate to heavy rainfall with thunderstorms and strong gusty winds in Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane provinces

• Tomorrow:  The National Institute of Meteorology expects the same weather as above to progressively move into Tete, Manica and Sofala provinces

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The latest from Zitamar News:

Cabo Ligado Weekly: 6 - 12 December

• Significant displacement in Niassa as attacks continue

• Tanzanian bus driver named as key insurgent leader

• Insurgent leader from Niassa’s Mecula district killed

• Mozambican navy claims Cabo Delgado coast is safe

Also published in Portuguese

Shifting responsibilities in Mozambique’s northern theatre
If RDF troops become the sine qua non of security provision in northern Mozambique, it will both stretch the resources of the Rwandan deployment and leave the security situation in the region hostage to the whims of the Rwandan government

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The best of the rest:

• Mozambique could limit movement of unvaccinated people, Nyusi says (Notícias, O País)

• Kuwaiti firm in the lead for fuel import contract (Carta de Moçambique)

• Businesswoman kidnapped in Manica (Miramar) 

• Insurgents order woman to take decapitated head to soldiers (Mediafax)

• Nangade survey counts cost of insurgency (Mediafax) 

• Mozambique to continue gas supply to South Africa (Energy Voice)

Mozambique could limit movement of unvaccinated people, Nyusi says (Notícias, O País)