Nyusi focuses on hydropower, not gas, at COP27

Renamo calls ministers to parliament over payscale fiasco; Latest Cabo Ligado Weekly

In today’s Daily Briefing:

• Renamo calls ministers to parliament over payscale fiasco

• Latest Cabo Ligado Weekly

• Nyusi focuses on hydropower, not gas, at COP27

• Inhambane sand mine M&A

• Oil and mining laws to be revised

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Before we go, a note about one item in yesterday’s Daily: an interview with a Red Cross official, published in this week by Voice of America, was in fact conducted in August and may therefore have created a misleading impression of the current situation in Cabo Delgado.

The official quoted, ICRC Mozambique’s communication coordinator Mariana Camaroti, clarified for Zitamar that “Our teams see constant movement of newly displaced people fleeing violence, while others return to their villages of origin. Safe access to these people in need is crucial for the ICRC to provide humanitarian assistance. Our principles of neutrality and impartiality help us achieve this.”

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The latest from Zitamar News:

MRG Metals to buy Savannah out of Jangamo sand mine project in Inhambane
Savannah Resources has sold its last mining licence in Mozambique to MRG Metals, having exited a joint venture with Rio Tinto

Cabo Ligado Weekly: 31 October - 6 November 2022

• Insurgents attack Namuno district for the second time

• Displaced people returning due to deprivation in displacement camps

• Nyusi asks EU for weapons to fight the insurgency

Report also available in Portuguese

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From the Zitamar Live Blog:

📹 ETG warehouses locked again as soybean saga continues
Workers have been again locked out of ETG’s facilities in Nacala, where agricultural commodities are now feared to be being destroyed by pests. The lock-out is due to a dispute with a rival commodities trader, Royal Group, which accuses ETG of causing a shipment to India to be held in the port of Mumbai
For more see: Agri giant ETG fights injunction after judge grants rival’s request to freeze assets

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Also in the news:

• Parliament recalled to debate public sector payscale

• Nyusi highlights Mozambique's hydropower potential at Cop27

• Mozambique’s mining and oil laws to be revised

• Port of Mocímboa da Praia prepares to reopen

Today’s front pages in Maputo. Photo © Faizal Chauque / Zitamar News