Temane gas-fired power plant reaches financial close; UK ‘embarrassed’ into funding Mozambqiue LNG

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 9 December 2021

Agenda:

• Today: President Filipe Nyusi is the guest of honour at the ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the independence of the United Republic of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam

• Today: Former treasury official and later deputy finance minister Isaltina Lucas gives evidence at the “hidden-debts” trial in Matola

• Today: Centro de Integridade Pública (CIP) holds a press conference on corruption in covid-19 testing in the national health service (report here)

• Today: Labour minister Margarida Talapa visits Cabo Delgado to deliver goods for displaced people and visit the construction site of a National Social Security Institute (INSS) building in Metuge

• Tomorrow: The Bank of Mozambique and the General Inspectorate of Games will sign a memorandum of understanding with the aim of sharing information for preventing and combatting money laundering and the financing of terrorism

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The latest from Zitamar News:

Temane gas-fired power plant reaches financial close
Financing has closed on the $652.3 million, 450MW Temane thermal power plant in Inhambane province

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The best of the rest:

• UK ‘embarrassed’ into funding Mozambqiue LNG (The Guardian)

• Angela Leao did not sustain head injury, hospital finds (O Pais)

• Government appoints new chairman of TVM (Carta de Moçambique)

• Water crisis hits more than 200,000 people in Gurué (O País)

• Cabo Delgado state secretary visits Montepuez ruby mine (O País)

• Teenager shot dead by a security guard in Maputo (TVM Miramar)

• $1.4m-power project connects N’cumpe to electrical grid (Carta de Moçambique) 

• Four insurgents killed by militia in Macomia (Lusa)

UK ‘embarrassed’ into funding gas project in Mozambique (The Guardian)