Increased donations to help cover expanded 2022 budget; Refugees face uncertainty and food scarcity in Corane resettlement centre

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

Agenda:

• Today: Foreign minister Veronica Macamo meets with Russian presidential envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov — Maputo, 11am

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Today’s headlines:

• Increased donations to help cover expanded spending in 2022 budget (Mediafax)

• Refugees face uncertainty and food scarcity in Corane resettlement centre (Mediafax)

• Beira business leader claims high taxes stifle development in Mozambique (O País)

• Mozambican authorities recover 7 containers of timber illegally exported to China (DW)

• Only 1 in 10 displaced families in Cabo Delgado has access to adequate diet (Lusa)

• Galp says another floating platform could be the answer for Mozambique’s LNG (Lusa)

• 14 tonnes of gold and precious stones smuggled out of Mozambique so far this year (VOA, Rádio Moçambique)

• Ematum official says Privinvest supplied defective fishing boats (AIM)

Increased donations to help cover expanded spending in 2022 budget (Mediafax)