OJM backs Nyusi's 'third term' as president of Frelimo; Mozambique hopes to restructure Nacala airport debt this year

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 23 May 2022

Agenda:

• Today: Energy regulator to make an announcement at 16:30 on fuel prices

• Today-Wednesday: President Filipe Nyusi working visit to Ghana

• Today: Conference 'Julius Nyerere Pan Africanism: Present and Future', keynote speaker former Tanzania's president Jakaya Kinkwete (video here)

• Tomorrow-Thursday: Mozambique-Rwanda Business Forum, run by the Mozambique Chamber of Commerce and the Rwandan Private Sector Federation, in the Hotel Polana, Maputo. Opening session tomorrow at 8am on Zoom here

• Friday - Sunday: Frelimo's Central Committee meeting in Matola

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Today’s headlines:

• OJM backs Nyusi's 'third term' as president of Frelimo (TV Sucesso)

• Vulcan and workers reach agreement over strike (Rádio Moçambique)

• IMF believes in reforms made in Mozambique (Lusa)

• Mozambique hopes to restructure Nacala airport debt this year (Carta de Moçambique)

• Displaced people driven back to Palma and Macomia headquarters (Mediafax)

• Insurgents commit four attacks in two days (Pinnacle News)