False negative covid-19 tests sold in Maputo hospital; Cabo Delgado miners plan graphite production expansion

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 10 December 2021

Agenda:

• Today: The Bank of Mozambique and the General Inspectorate of Games will sign a memorandum of understanding with the aim of sharing information for preventing and combatting money laundering and the financing of terrorism

• Today: President Filipe Nyusi inaugurates the EN13 highway from Cuamba to Muita in Niassa

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The latest from Zitamar News:

Cabo Delgado miners plan graphite production expansion
Triton's announcement this week is the latest in a series of developments in response to growing demand for graphite for battery production

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The best of the rest:

• Navy captain says Cabo Delgado’s coast is “safe” (TVM, Carta de Moçambique)

• False negative covid-19 tests sold in Maputo hospital (Lusa)

• Mozambique prepares for fourth wave of covid-19 (O País, Bloomberg)

• Isaltina Lucas says she had no choice but to approve ProIndicus and Ematum (Mediafax)

• SISE lawyer describes money laundering schemes in revelatory testimony (Savana)

Navy captain says Cabo Delgado’s coast is “safe” (TVM, Carta de Moçambique)