Total Eren to build Sofala solar plant; 12 qualify for new oil and gas exploration

Welcome to Zitamar’s daily Mozambique briefing for 6 April 2022

Agenda:

• Today: Zimbabwean President Emerson Mnangagwa wraps up a four-day visit to Mozambique

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The latest from Zitamar News:

Total Eren picked to build 40MW solar power plant in central Mozambique
Two more auctions for solar power projects will be launched simultaneously at the start of the second half of 2022, the energy regulator said

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INP qualifies companies for new oil and gas exploration
Mozambique’s oil and gas regulator INP has announced that 12 out of 13 applicants have pre-qualified for the country’s sixth round auction of hydrocarbon blocks — six as potential operating companies, and six as non-operators (see here)

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Also in the news:

• Rwandan refugees in Mozambique return home in process promoted by Kigali (VOA)

• Audit expresses reservations on 2020 accounts of Mozambique’s central bank (Lusa)

• EN1 rehabilitation to cost $750m (Notícias)

• Last Renamo military bases to be shut down (Lusa)