Police and migration service top the ranking for corruption; Chinese lobbying to build mine on nature reserve

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 3 August 2022

Agenda:

• Today-Tomorrow: Mozambican state-owned electric utility EDM meets World Bank and Southern African Power Pool representatives to discuss financing electricity transmission infrastructure in southern Africa

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The latest from Zitamar News:

Cabo Ligado Weekly: 25-31 July 2022 (also available in Portuguese)

• Nangade district headquarters suffer first ever direct insurgent attack 

• Sources point to possible change of leadership within the insurgency

• Basic services still lacking in key areas as displaced people return home

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Also in the news:

• Police and migration service top the ranking for corruption (O País)

• Chinese lobbying to build mine on nature reserve (Carta de Moçambique)

• China cuts import duties for Mozambican imports (Lusa, O País)

• Census for local elections due in February (O País)

• Mozambique to carry out census of foreigners (Lusa)

• Agricultural exports rise in 2022 (O País)