Private security companies paying below minimum wage; Mozambique's GDP grows 3.36% in third quarter

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 23 November 2021

Agenda:

• Today: International Conference on Extractive Industry, in Maputo, organised by the Institute for Multiparty Democracy in partnership with SADC

• Today: Former governor of the Banco de Moçambique Ernesto Gove gives testimony in court as part of the “hidden-debts” hearings

• This week: President Nyusi will attend SADC Industrialisation Week, held in Lilongwe, Malawi

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Today’s headlines:

• "Force majeure” causes cancellation of business conference (Carta de Moçambique)

• Private security companies paying below minimum wage (O País)

• Mozambique's GDP grows 3.36% in third quarter (Lusa)

• Mozambique aims for 40% vaccination rate by December (Evidencias, O País, US embassy in Mozambique)

• Mandatory drinks-sealing pilot launched (O País)

• Holiday beach reopening decision due (TVM, Ministerio da Cultura e Turismo)

• Archbishop blames crime and conflict on lack of jobs (Lusa)

• Nangade militia member wounded by Mozambican soldier (Ikweli)

• New insurgent bases in Mueda and Macomia (Pinnacle News)

• Zimbabwean family call for the release of abducted sisters (eNCA)

"Force majeure” causes cancellation of business conference (Carta de Moçambique)