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OBJECTIVE KEY PERSONS Offering seamless solutions for asset protection Dr. Leonardo Simão - Executive Chairman in SADC political and security environment. Executive director of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation, Chairman of United Bank of Africa VISION and Member of the SADC Mediation Team for Providing a network of political and security risk Madagascar, Leonardo Simão served as Minister advisers with first-hand knowledge of of Health from 1988 to 1994 and Minister of Mozambique and each country in the SADC. Foreign Cooperation from 1994 to 2005. Graduated in Medicine, Specialist in Public SCOPE OF SERVICES Health, he is a founding member of the Medical Country Risk Management Association of Mozambique and member of the  Country Risk Assessment Mozambique Medical Council.

 Market Entry Nuno Tomas - Director  Due Diligence A career diplomat, Nuno Tomas is Senior  Research & Investigations Adviser to former President of Mozambique,  Cultural Nuances and Understanding Joaquim Chissano since 2005. He has been  Health, Safety & Environmental involved in special political missions across Management Africa focussed on Conflict Resolution,  Physical Site Assessment Sustainable Development, Accountability and Compliance Good Governance.  Sanctions (US, EU, UK, Asia)  Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Nigel Morgan - Director  Anti-Bribery / Corruption (FCPA, BBA, For more than two decades, Nigel Morgan has OECD) advised multinational companies, financial  Litigation Support institutions and private clients on political and  Know your Client / Source of Funds (KyC / security risk related to foreign direct investment SoF) in Africa. He served in the Irish Guards and at Specialised Security Services the Centre for Policy Studies in London during  Corporate Security Planning the premiership of Margaret Thatcher.  Crisis Management  Emergency Evacuation Joe van der Walt - Director  Executive Protection Former South African military officer, who has  Kidnap and Ransom specialised in private-sector security in Africa and the Middle East, with particular expertise in AREAS OF OPERATION the oil, gas and mining sectors and working SADC experience in Angola, DRC, Liberia, Zambia, Somalia, Iraq, to name a few.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ECONOMY ...... 8 GRAPH 1: MOZAMBIQUE CURRENCY EVALUATION ...... 8 AFI adopts Maputo accord and makes historic decision to expand its network at the 2015 Global Policy Forum ...... 9 Central bank calls for support for small companies ...... 10 Despite depreciation of metical – inflation remains low ...... 11 Prime Minister encourages expansion in exports ...... 11 Mosca forecasts worsening economic situation in Mozambique ...... 12 China’s slowdown may threaten Mozambique's growth ...... 13 CTA calls on entrepreneurs to boost food production against external shocks ...... 14 BCI, IPEX and the EU-CPLP sign an agreement in support of internationalisation ... 15 Investor Conference ...... 15 Chimoio hosts CTA business forum ...... 16 CPLP banks discuss business continuity ...... 16 Barclays cites Mozambique as one of Africa’s five “sleeping giants” ...... 16 Mozambique scores poorly in the Open Budget Survey 2015 ...... 17 Chissano heads delegation to Angola: oil and gas on the agenda...... 19 New team sworn in at the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy ...... 20 LNG oversupply could impede FIDs ...... 20 Sasol CEO stresses Mozambique as key to regional expansion plans ...... 22 Petromoc restructures Board of Directors – Fernado Uache is the new CEO...... 23 Triton Minerals produces graphene from Mozambique graphite ...... 23 Xtract Resources adjusts Manica purchase terms to limit future dilution ...... 24 Manica Province wants 85 mining licenses cancelled ...... 24 Grupo Videre just keeps growing ...... 25 Mapai substation is ready ...... 25 Zambia begins importing electricity from Ressano Garcia ...... 26 Casimiro Nyusi’s new South African partner ...... 26

Swazi port proposal via canal no hoax ...... 27 President Nyusi praises Portucel for investing in rural Mozambique ...... 28 Investors express interest in recovering Companhia do Buzi ...... 30 European Union bans goat meat from Tete ...... 30 Government and industry discuss the cost of plastic bags ...... 31 Mozambique will have just three international airports ...... 32

POLITICS ...... 33 Chissano insists on meeting between President Nyusi and Dhlakama ...... 33 “Mozambique is sitting on a ticking time bomb” – Raul Domingos ...... 34 Dhlakama is “an enemy of the Mozambican people” ...... 35 Maputo Archbishop calls for humility and tolerance amongst political leaders ...... 36 President Nyusi and Prime Minister Rosário praise the role of Catholic Church in Mozambique ...... 37 “There are still Mozambicans who think of a country cut into pieces” – Nyusi ...... 38 Governor of Zambézia calls for defence of national unity ...... 39 Milange district administrator defies Dhlakama ...... 39 Government “sensitive to veterans” – President Nyusi ...... 40 Speculation on Nyusi/Dhlakama meeting as President travels to Quelimane ...... 41 President Nyusi rejects the imposition of conditions by Renamo ...... 42 MDM condemns war of words between President Nyusi and Dhlakama ...... 42 Renamo submits constitutional amendment ...... 43 Major reshuffle in the Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs ...... 44 Directors take office in Ministry of State Administration ...... 46 President Nyusi meets SADC executive secretary on political security in the region . 46 Seven new foreign ambassadors present their credentials to President Nyusi ...... 47 Minister Balói accuses Renamo of psychological violence ...... 47 Macamo meets with Cassama to discuss the situation in Guinea-Bissau ...... 48 Guebuza meets with vice president Yuanchao ...... 48 Brazilian Minister of Culture on working visit to Maputo ...... 48 Peruvian Ambassador to South Africa to also represent in Mozambique ...... 49

Mozambican delegates observe Norwegian elections ...... 49 II African Youth Conference on Democracy and Good Governance ...... 49 Former US official reveals Mugabe’s key role convincing Dhlakama to negotiate peace ...... 50

SECURITY ...... 51 Dhlakama announces new police force and the creation of a second military headquarters in Milange ...... 51 Dhlakama accuses government of derailing his rallies ...... 52 FADM soldiers accused of excesses and rape in Gorongosa ...... 52 War veterans appeal to Dhlakama to attend meeting with President Nyusi ...... 53 Over 54 million square meters cleared of land mines in six years ...... 53

CRIME ...... 55 MAP 1: KIDNAPPING INCIDENTS IN CENTRAL MAPUTO 2014 & 2015 ...... 55 GRAPH 2: REPORTED KIDNAPPINGS PER YEAR ...... 55 GRAPH 3: TIME OF KIDNAPPINGS 2014 & 2015 ...... 56 GRAPH 4: KIDNAPPINGS PER GENDER / AGE-GROUP 2014 & 2015 ...... 56 PRM neutralise sugar thieves in Gaza ...... 57 PRM arrest three grave robbers in Malema ...... 57 PRM neutralise armed gang in Chimoio ...... 57 Mozambican man arrested in Malawi on charges of conspiracy to traffic children ..... 57 Two Mozambicans sentenced to jail in Malawi for raping a minor ...... 58 Minor raped in Maputo ...... 58 PRM announce “encouraging clues” in Machava murder case ...... 58 Five illegal immigrants held in Nampula ...... 59 Three locals arrested on charges of kidnapping an albino in Nampula ...... 59 South African child kidnapped by Mozambican nanny rescued in Machava ...... 60 PRM recover weapons allegedly used by kidnappers in Maputo ...... 61 PRM seize 500 kilograms of marijuana in Cabo Delgado ...... 61 PRM concerned with the high levels of robbery and theft in Maputo ...... 61

WILDLIFE PRESERVATION ...... 62 Mozambican authorities investigate timber trafficking through Beira port ...... 62 Sea turtle poacher caught red handed in Ponta Caldeira Island ...... 62 Three poaching gangs clash with the police in Gaza ...... 63 Mozambicans won’t extradite poachers ...... 64 Reduction in elephant poaching in Tete Province ...... 64

OTHER ...... 65 Dragões Segurança employees of go on strike in Nampula ...... 65 Government hopes for 300,000 new jobs this year ...... 66 President Nyusi launches rotavirus vaccination campaign ...... 66 Mozambique has 300,000 traditional medicinal practitioners – 120,000 not registered ...... 67 Families of Matola victims to find closure ...... 67 MT80 million needed to assist the population of drought-stricken Inhambane ...... 69 Drought in Gaza and Inhambane: government seeks sustainable solutions ...... 69 Residents refuse to leave poorly constructed homes in flood-prone area of Matola .. 70 Mozambique ranked the third worst place in the world to grow old ...... 70

BUSINESS INDEX

Aggreko 26 Anadarko 21 Auroch Minerals 24 Betaworks Consultoria e Construcao Civil 26 BP 21 CFM 23, 27, 57, 70 CMS 25 Companhia do Búzi, CB 30 Consolidated Oil and Gas Services 25 DP World 27 Electricidade de Moçambique EdM 25 Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos, ENH 20 Engen 23

ENI 21, 22 Eskom 26 ExxonMobil 21 Gestores 27 Gigajoule International 20 Grindrod 27 Grupo Namatil 26 Grupo Videre 25 Matola Gas Company, MGC 19 OAO Rosneft 22 Palace Group 26 PETRONAS 21 Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique, CFM 27 Portucel-Soporcel 28 RHB Group 25 Sasol 22, 23 Shell 21 Shoprite 31 Sociedade de Desenvolvimento do Porto de Maputo, MPDC 27 Sonangol 19 Statoil ASA 22 Triton Minerals 23 Woodside 21 Xtract Resources 24 Yichang Xincheng Graphite Ltds 24 Zesco 26

ECONOMY

Mozambique Exchange Rate and Fuel Prices: 10 September 2015

Mozambique Metical (MZN) Exchange Rate Mozambique Fuel Prices Currency Buy Sell Fuel Type Price Per Litre Euro (EUR) 44,70 44,92 Petrol 47,52MT U.S. Dollar (USD) 40,15 40,35 Diesel 36,81MT

S.A. Rand (ZAR) 2,94 2,95 Prices only valid for Maputo, Beira and Nacala

GRAPH 1: MOZAMBIQUE CURRENCY EVALUATION

AFI adopts Maputo accord and makes outside AFI’s current structure of historic decision to expand its network emerging and developing countries. at the 2015 Global Policy Forum The Maputo Accord was proposed by Over 450 senior financial inclusion Mozambique’s governor of the central policymakers and regulators, along with bank, Ernesto Gove, as an addition to leaders from international organisations AFI’s Maya Declaration, the world’s first and the private sector, converged in set of measurable commitments to Maputo from 1-4 September for the 7th financial inclusion. The governor made a annual Alliance for Financial Inclusion passionate case for small and medium (AFI) Global Policy Forum (GPF). This enterprises (SMEs) and their role in year’s GPF, “Inspiring Innovation to driving employment, economic Advance Inclusion”, is the largest and development and innovation. He noted most diverse forum the AFI Network has that supporting SME finance would ever held. strengthen economic development, and that the Maputo Accord would benefit all The opening ceremony included a AFI countries. Members unanimously welcome address by President Filipe adopted the Accord, making SME finance Nyusi, who thanked participants for a priority. coming and noted that the presence of so many financial inclusion leaders in the city Green finance and gender were two of the had “made Maputo the financial capital of most prominent and well attended the world”. sessions. Members recognised that environmental risks are a growing The keynote address was delivered by concern of central banks and financial Graça Machel, who spoke on the benefits regulators, and learned that developing of bridging the gender gap, noting that the and emerging countries are leading the impact would be equivalent to adding way in innovative financing of a green, another China and India to the formal sustainable economy. Members were also financial system. Machel also stressed united in their recognition that societies that financial inclusion was more than just cannot function properly if more than half an issue of economic empowerment. the population is left behind, and bridging “Entry into the formal economy sends a the financial inclusion gender gap needs social message: it says this citizen to be a priority. In 2016, AFI will explore counts”, she said. the appropriate platforms to address these new areas of interest. At the AFI Annual General Meeting, held the day before the GPF, members As has become a tradition at the GPF, discussed the future of AFI as an members made new and revised independent organisation. Members commitments to the Maya Declaration on agreed to open the Network to high- the last day of the event. Several made income emerging countries and accept specific commitments on SME finance in regional organisations made up of current line with the Maputo Accord. The National or potential AFI members. This decision Reserve Bank of Tonga, Central Bank of was the result of the rising profile of Suriname and Superintendencia General financial inclusion and growing demand de Entidades Financieras (SUGEF) Costa from countries and regional organisations Rica made new commitments.

Reflecting on the theme of the event, AFI physical or electronic access to at least Executive Director Alfred Hannig asked one financial service provided by a AFI members to drive innovation in regulated financial institution”. financial inclusion by “embracing change, allowing space to experiment, and by In other words, the central bank is continuing to have bold aspirations for resigned to 65% of the adult population financial inclusion goals”. still being deprived of banking services in seven years’ time. The GPF 2015 closed with the announcement that the Reserve Bank of Currently, only 20% of the population has Fiji would host the 8th AFI Global Policy a bank account, 4% have access to other Forum, to be held in Suva in September formal forms of financial services, 16% 2016. use informal services and the majority of the population, 60%, are completely Source: PRWeb excluded from the financial system.

Central bank calls for support for small Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of companies Congo are the only other SADC countries with a lower percentage of their citizens On Thursday 3 September, the governor holding bank accounts – 14% and 12% of the Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto respectively. But if other formal financial Gove, argued that support for SMEs is services are counted, the percentage of crucial for the development of Tanzanians and Congolese covered rises Mozambique. to 57% and 36%.

Speaking in Maputo at the Seventh Global In terms of the percentage of the Forum of the AFI, Gove said that: population who are completely excluded, “implementing strategies of financial Mozambique is at the bottom of the inclusion, covering the greater part of the Southern African Development population, through the expansion of the Community (SADC) table. banking network, guarantees greater development of the population, based on According to the statistics presented by support for the projects of Small and Gove, the number of bank branches in Medium Enterprises, the main catalysts of Mozambique has grown substantially in the economic growth of Mozambique”. recent years – from 284 in 2007 to 583 this year. But almost half of them (262) “We should do everything to ensure that are concentrated in Maputo city and the SMEs are provided with financial province. solutions that ensure better conditions of operation, and guarantee continual efforts The most populous province, Nampula, to do away with unemployment”, he has 65 bank branches, and the second added. most populous, Zambézia, has only 29. The two provinces undergoing mineral However, the targets mentioned by Gove resource booms, Cabo Delgado and Tete, are modest. By the end of 2022, he said, have 25 and 39 branches respectively. “no less than 35% of the active adult population of Mozambique should have

There has, however, been significant In the previous month (July) inflation was expansion in mobile banking. According to 0.1%, following three months of slight the figures from the central bank, 26% of deflation. Inflation for the first eight the active population has an e-money months of the year was just 1.23%. This is account, including 20% of mobile phone despite the metical losing over 22% of its subscribers. value against the dollar between 1 January and 31 July (according to the National financial inclusion policies, said Bank of Mozambique). Gove, included “ensuring availability, proximity and effective use of a range of Most of the price rises in August were for appropriate financial services for foodstuffs – maize rose in price by 14.1%, businesses and individuals in rural and and maize flour by 1.3%. Other significant urban areas”, and “strengthening the price rises were for fresh fish (3.3%), goat security and efficiency of the national meat (3.2%) and rice (0.6%). payments system”. The prices of tomatoes, onions, coconuts The financial education initiatives under and live chickens fell slightly. Taken way would “support financial inclusion by together, the price of these items fell by disseminating conditions of access to 0.11%. minimum banking services, and raise awareness of the importance of savings”. As for non-food items, the price of baby clothing rose by 10.8%, and that of Gove said that among the main second hand cars by 5%. challenges for the immediate future are “expanding and diversifying the network of Inflation over the past year, since August access points, improving the legal and 2014, was 2.28%. regulatory framework and oversight for the protection of financial consumers and Source: Agencia de Informacao de developing a range of products for SMEs, Moçambique low income population and farmers”. Prime Minister encourages expansion Source: Agencia de Informacao de in exports Moçambique On Saturday 5 September, Prime Minister Despite depreciation of metical – Carlos Agostinho do Rosário challenged inflation remains low Mozambican businesses to expand and diversify the products they export, and The depreciation of the metical against increase their level of processing. the US dollar has had little impact on the level of prices within the country. He was speaking at the Maputo International Trade Fair (Facim), during According to the latest figures from the an awards ceremony for the best National Statistics Institute (INE), released exhibitors. on Wednesday 9 September, inflation in August (as measured by the consumer Prime Minister Rosário repeated the price indices in the three largest cities – appeal made at the opening of the fair by Maputo, Nampula and Beira) was only President Filipe Nyusi, who urged 0.21%. companies to concentrate on activities

with the greatest potential for job creation national economy, and for reducing the and for added value – notably in deficit on the balance of payments. agriculture, livestock, agro-industry, tourism and fisheries. In his conversations with Mozambican exhibitors, the Prime Minister encouraged The Prime Minister also urged the Export them to improve their productivity and Promotion Institute (IPEX), which competitiveness, with the end goal of organised the fair, to commit itself to improving Mozambican living conditions. seeking better ways to support Mozambican enterprises, stimulating The prize for the country with the best productive capacities, and favourable exhibition at Facim went to Germany, conditions for exports. followed by South Africa and France. But the country that brought the largest From the goods exhibited at Facim, “it has business delegation to Facim was Italy been possible to gauge the real potential (followed by Portugal and Turkey). for increasing business opportunities and investment in our country, as well as the Each of Mozambique’s provinces had its real achievements made in the affirmation own exhibition. The prize for best of Mozambique as a competitive economy provincial exhibition went to Maputo in the region and in the world”, he said. Province, followed by Inhambane and “The government reiterates its Manica. commitment to continue implementing the reform package, in order to provide a Facim closed to the public on Sunday 6 more attractive business environment”. September.

Prime Minister Rosário was also pleased Source: Agencia de Informacao de by the increase in the number of foreign Moçambique countries and hence the number of Mosca forecasts worsening economic foreign companies exhibiting at Facim. 30 situation in Mozambique countries were represented, including newcomers such as South Korea and On Monday 7 September, renowned Vietnam. economist, João Mosca, stated that the critical economic situation currently facing The Prime Minister was optimistic that this Mozambique could potentially be would lead to the establishment of further aggravated by the ongoing political- business partnerships between military tensions between Renamo and Mozambican companies and foreign Frelimo. counterparts, which should also help to promote and diversify Mozambican According to Mosca, former president exports. Such partnerships would allow an Armando Guebuza is accountable for the ever greater presence of Mozambique in current situation, characterised by the international trade, he said. contraction of foreign investments, the reduction of domestic production and Prime Minister Rosário stressed that declining exports. He also cites the increased exports of goods and services devaluation of the metical and the high were crucial for the development of the rate of public debt as additional stress factors.

According to the economist, despite the outstripped export growth to Asia, Europe fact that the country has one of the and the United States”. highest rates of public debt in the world, 11% of the country’s GDP is spent on The report continues: “for Africa, China’s state salaries or on investments made in demand for its raw materials and the the defence sector. inflow of foreign direct investment has provided a source of additional income. While Mosca warns that the economic More recently, as wages in China have situation will likely worsen in the near- risen, Chinese manufacturers have future, other analysts argue that the outsourced production to Africa. This has country is experiencing strong economic provided both employment for Africans growth, predominantly due to the and the opportunity to master new skills”. country’s booming gas and coal industry. However, the analysts caution that this China’s trade with Africa has risen from sector only benefits a small portion of the just US$10 billion in 2000 to US$220 population. billion today, which is more than three times the value of trade that the United The analysts agree that if the country is States has with the continent. able to consolidate and maintain peace, it would provide the necessary conditions However, since June shares on the for increased foreign investment. Chinese stock market have plummeted and the government has devalued the Source: Agencia Informativa Latinoamericana national currency, the renminbi. This a symptomatic of fears of deep, structural China’s slowdown may threaten problems in the Chinese economy. Mozambique's growth There has already been a serious knock- A report written by UK based company on effect; figures produced in July show Fathom Consulting warns that the that there has been a 40% fall in the value Mozambican economy is likely to be hit by of Chinese imports from Africa compared the slowdown in Chinese economic with a year ago. growth. Fathom Consulting has carried out an In recent years China has seen growth analysis of links between 19 African rates of above 8% and has used its strong countries and China, and ranked them economic position to invest in the African according to how exposed they are to continent and purchase its raw materials. China’s slowdown. According to this In addition, Africa has provided a useful analysis, Mozambique is the eighth most market for Chinese goods. vulnerable country.

According to Fathom Consulting, “for The three most vulnerable countries are China, Africa provides many of the raw Zambia, South Africa and Liberia. materials that are required to fuel its economic growth engine. Africa also The author of the report, Oliver White, told provides a consumer-hungry market for its reporters that Zambia and Liberia were goods, with exports to Africa rising by particularly exposed as foreign direct nearly 15% in the 12 months to 2014. This investment from China amounted to 7.5%

of domestic output. He added, “Zambia’s of 2007 and the sluggish growth rates in exports total 30% of its gross domestic many countries since then. According to product (GDP), whilst the figure for Liberia the World Bank, Mozambique’s GDP reaches 43%”. growth has averaged 7.4% over the last two decades. Liberia is particularly under threat, as exports to China are the equivalent of Until the current doubts about the Chinese almost 14% of GDP. economic outlook, it was expected that Mozambique would continue with this White explained that Mozambique is also impressive record. Speaking in Parliament closely linked with China, with exports to in July, Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho China equal to 9% of GDP and the do Rosário said that Mozambique was on country’s exports totalling 30% of GDP. course to meet its target of an annual growth of 7.5%. However, the country is less exposed than Zambia or Liberia because foreign In May, the International Monetary Fund direct investment from China only (IMF) reported that “over the medium- amounts to 2% of GDP. term, Mozambique is expected to remain one of the most dynamic economies in the White told reporters that the economic continent, with growth rates that could slowdown in China comes at a time when average 8% over the 2016-19 period”. it is expected that the United States Federal Reserve Bank will tighten Source: Agencia de Informacao de monetary policy by raising interest rates. Moçambique/John Hughes This would have the effect of making the dollar more expensive and would suck CTA calls on entrepreneurs to boost investment away from the African food production against external continent. In addition, it would make debts shocks measured in dollars more expensive to service. On Wednesday 9 September, the president of the Confederation of Quantifying the effects of all these factors, Economic Associations of Mozambique the report forecasts that growth in sub- (CTA), Rogério Manuel, said that the Saharan Africa will drop to 3% this year devaluation of the metical would and 3.5% next year. essentially necessitate a culture of domestic food production, proclaiming Mozambique is a member of the SADC that he found the agricultural potential of and as a consequence thereof, it will be Mozambique and its low productivity affected by problems in neighbouring “intriguing”. South Africa, Zambia and Malawi, all of whom are higher ranked in the report. And “The slide of the metical in the last few if the world tips back into recession this months imposes upon us the need to will be a major factor in the country’s increase national production and future prospects. productivity of goods and services, with a consequent increase in the availability of Mozambique’s economy proved very goods for both domestic consumption and resilient in the face of the world recession export”, Manuel said at the opening of the

Agribusiness Entrepreneurial Forum in The agreement was signed between Gondola (Manica Province), remarking Banco Comercial e de Investimentos again on the paradoxical coexistence of (BCI), the Union of Exporters of the Mozambique’s vast agricultural potential Community of Portuguese Language and its dependence on food imports. Countries (EU-CPLP) and IPEX.

Manuel said that fragile agricultural The initiative aims to ensure that all production makes the country vulnerable Mozambican companies, including SMEs, to external shocks, and called for can access the markets within the CPLP, government policies that encourage with more than 250 million potential agricultural financing on terms more customers. suited to the sector. According to the Chief Executive Officer He highlighted the importance of of BCI, Paulo Sousa, the facilities establishing “an effective link between the encompassed in the agreement include production areas and the consumption of support such as providing companies with what little is already produced”, justifying export and investment advice; disclosure Wednesday’s meeting as a way of of export incentive schemes; identifying generating interest in the agricultural potential business partners; searching for potential of Mozambique, exploring links and selecting potential suppliers; among Mozambicans and establishing preparing market research plans and partnerships to promote food production facilitating the promotion and introduction businesses. of products to overseas markets.

However, he also acknowledged the Source: O País challenges that the sector faces and the need to define sustainable policies for Investor Conference increased productivity and competitiveness, maintaining that According to the Minister of Economy and concerted action could boost the Finance, Adriano Maleiane, the first emerging raw materials and packaging Investor Conference, being held on 18 industries. September in Nampula Province, will provide the opportunity for national and Source: Lusa foreign businessmen to acquaint themselves with the potential that BCI, IPEX and the EU-CPLP sign an Nampula has to offer, specifically within agreement in support of the commercial agricultural sector. internationalisation “An Investor Conference is always Mozambican companies will now enjoy important. It would be great for the people additional facilities to assist in the export to participate to understand how to do of products and services to the markets of business in Nampula. There are several the Community of Portuguese Language areas of interest”, he said. Speaking Countries (CPLP). This comes after an agreement was signed during the The event is being held under the theme: course of the Facim for the “Investment, Path to Growth and Socio- internationalisation of companies. Economic Development in Nampula”. The

minister expects at least 300 people to the meeting, said that the business participate in the event, including continuity system allows for the members of the government, identification and management of current businesspeople, academics and and future threats and also allows for the international co-operation partners. adaptation of proactive action that assists in mitigating the impact of incidents on The aim of the conference is to direct systems in the functioning of institutions. investments to the five priority areas, namely water supply, roads, energy, food “The business continuity plans are security and land use. increasingly taking on a crucial role in the survival of organisations in general and The conference, organised by the banks in particular. The central banks of provincial government of Nampula, is the CPLP are exposed to threats whether being held within the scope of the derived from natural causes, human or Provincial Development Strategic Plan for technological errors and thus require 2020. proper training to maintain the robust levels of resilience”, said Bila. Source: Jornal Notícias In the late 1990s the Bank of Mozambique Chimoio hosts CTA business forum created the downtown business continuity system which focuses on information and On Wednesday 9 September, the city of communication technologies, and later Chimoio (Manica Province) welcomed the added the business component. Corporate Business Forum of Manica as an opportunity for business matching. Source: Jornal Notícias

The event, organised by the CTA, Barclays cites Mozambique as one of afforded entrepreneurs the opportunity to Africa’s five “sleeping giants” interact with the government, to exchange experiences, share information and A Barclays bank economic analysis unit business opportunities and also establish has identified Mozambique as one of the partnerships. continent’s five “sleeping giants”.

Source: Notícias “Barclays Africa Trade Index, which measures the opportunities and the CPLP banks discuss business openness to trade in 31 sub-Saharan continuity economies, identifies a group of ‘sleeping giants’ who, after having gone through a On Wednesday 9 September, significant phase of economic turmoil, are representatives of the central banks of the catching up and registering fast growth”, CPLP, gathered in Maputo to engage in a reads the research note distributed to forum that seeks to share experiences British investors. that mitigate the impact of system failures on the continuity of banking institutions The five economies which the report says services. will see continuing economic development and an increase in private consumption in The administrator of the Bank of the coming years are: Ethiopia, the Mozambique, Alberto Bila, who opened

Democratic Republic of Congo, country a spot on the list of the least Mozambique, Ghana and Tanzania. transparent countries in the region in terms of public budget management. With a total population of approximately 270 million people and an average annual Drawing on internationally accepted growth of 7.3% in the last five years, criteria developed by multilateral “these five countries represent a organisations, the Open Budget Survey significant business opportunity for British uses 109 indicators to measure budget exporters in the coming years”, the report transparency. These indicators are used said. to assess whether the central government makes key budget documents available to “By 2020, these five countries will the public in a timely manner and whether represent a population of about 325 the data contained in these documents million people, comparable to the United are comprehensive and useful. States’ population, and with economic growth rates that were previously Each country is given a score out of 100 exclusive to India and China”, said the which determines its ranking on the Open director of the corporate banking business Budget Index – the world’s only of Barclays, John Winter. independent and comparative measure of budget transparency. “Based on recent estimates, the expenditure of households in these Mozambique scored relatively poorly in countries should almost double, reaching the 2015 survey, putting the country over US$1,000 per year in 2020; brands behind Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, that start to settle in now will be well Malawi and South Africa. positioned for a rapid growth in 2020”, he adds. Mozambique scored 38 out of 100 in terms of transparency, indicating that the In an index that registers unsatisfactory government provides the public with demand with the rapid expansion of value minimal budget information. chains and the opening of markets, and reflects the absence of barriers to Mozambique’s score of 38 is moderately international trade, Angola is ranked lower than the global average score of 45. seventh and Mozambique 15 in a list led by South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. Moreover, the government has been inconsistent in which documents are Source: Lusa made publicly available in a given year.

Mozambique scores poorly in the Open Since 2012, the government has Budget Survey 2015 increased the availability of budget information by: According to the Open Budget Survey 2015, developed by the International  Publishing the Citizens Budget; Budget Partnership in association with the and Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), Mozambique dropped by nine positions in  Improving the comprehensiveness the space of three years, earning the of the Pre-Budget Statement.

However, the government has decreased institution is provided with insufficient the availability of budget information by: resources to fulfil its mandate and has no quality assurance system in place.  Failing to publish the Year-End Report in a timely manner; and The document makes the following recommendations:  Failing to publish a Mid-Year Review. Mozambique should prioritise the following actions to improve budget In terms of public participation, transparency: Mozambique scored 2 out of 100, indicating that the provision of  Publish in a timely manner a Year- opportunities for the public to engage in End Report and a Mid-Year the budget process is weak. This is lower Review; and than the global average score of 25. The loan of US$850 million contracted by  Increase the comprehensiveness Ematum and backed by the State without of the Executive’s Budget Proposal the approval of the public is the most by presenting more information on relevant example of poor public the classification of expenditures participation in Mozambique. for future years and on the classification of expenditures for In the budget oversight category, prior years. Mozambique scored 33 out of 100 by legislature and 42 out of 100 by auditor. Mozambique should prioritise the following actions to improve budget These results indicate that the legislature participation: provides weak oversight during the planning stage of the budget cycle and  Establish credible and effective weak oversight during the implementation mechanisms (i.e., public hearings, stage of the budget cycle. The legislature surveys, focus groups) for does not have a specialised budget capturing a range of public research office and, in both law and perspectives on budget matters; practice, the legislature is not consulted prior to the virement of funds in the  Hold legislative hearings on the Enacted Budget, spending any budgets of specific ministries, unanticipated revenue, and spending departments, and agencies as well contingency funds that were not identified as on audit reports at which in the Enacted Budget. testimony from the public is heard; and The supreme audit institution provides limited budget oversight. Under the law, it  Establish formal mechanisms for has significant discretion to undertake the public to assist the supreme audits as it sees fit. Moreover, the head of audit institution to formulate its the supreme audit institution cannot be audit program and participate in removed without legislative or judicial audit investigations. approval, which bolsters its independence. Finally, the supreme audit

Mozambique should prioritise the Chissano heads delegation to Angola: following actions to strengthen budget oil and gas on the agenda oversight: On Monday 7 September, former  Establish a specialised budget president Joaquim Chissano arrived in research office for the legislature; Angola for a private three-day visit at the head of a Mozambican business  In both law and practice, ensure delegation from the oil and natural gas the legislature is consulted prior to sector. The delegation is seeking a the virement (the process of market for natural gas produced in transferring items from one financial Mozambique and to exchange knowledge account to another) of funds in the and experiences within the sector. Enacted Budget, the spending of any unanticipated revenue, and the Chissano is scheduled to hold meetings spending of contingency funds that with officials of the national oil company, were not identified in the Enacted Sonangol, which will focus on bilateral co- Budget; and operation in the areas of oil and gas.

 Ensure the supreme audit On Tuesday 8 September, a delegation of institution has adequate funding to the Matola Gas Company (MGC) met with perform its duties, as determined the Angolan Minister of Petroleum, José by an independent body (e.g., the Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, in Luanda. legislature or judiciary). The meeting was aimed at analysing a Commenting on the findings, Shamila Ali, collaborative proposal on the deputy director for budget planning, said development of the company. that the year 2015 was not typical, and considered it unsatisfactory as a study After the meeting with Minister reference because of the post-election Vasconcelos, Chissano stressed that the hiatus and the inauguration of a new MGC, which served only two industrial government in the first half of the year, companies when it was established in leading to delays at the level of defining 2004, currently has 38 clients. and approving the State Budget. “MGC currently has a power station and a “I do not agree with the study’s findings. centre for gas distribution in containers, The year 2015 was atypical and cannot which should get lower in number as the be taken as a reference”, she said, while gas distribution network expands”, said praising the study for its importance in Chissano. assuring greater public participation in the country’s decisions. The MGC is a Mozambican company that is dedicated to the transportation, For more information please visit: distribution and sale of natural gas www.openbudgetsurvey.org produced in Mozambique. Gas is used as a source of energy for several industrial Source: O País/The International Budget units in Maputo Province. Partnership/Lusa MGC’s share capital is divided into a stake held by the Mozambican state,

through the state oil and gas company  Almirante Dimas – National Deputy Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos, Director of Hydrocarbons and (ENH) and private Mozambican and Fuels. foreign investors, in this case South African company Gigajoule International. Ministry Advisors:

The company operates a natural gas  Afonso Mabica; and pipeline of roughly 100 kilometres with a capacity of approximately eight million  Benjamin Chilenge. natural gas gigajoules per year through an established concession agreement with Head of Departments: the government of Mozambique for distribution to Maputo Province.  Laura Nhancale – Human Resources; Source: Angop/Macauhub  Urbano Nhamússua – New team sworn in at the Ministry of Administration and Finances; Mineral Resources and Energy  Gabinete de Ministro On Wednesday 9 September, the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Pedro  Pedro Langa – Minister’s Office; Couto, swore in new senior members of and staff as part of his overhaul of the ministry.  Bruno Senguaio – Assistant to the minister. The new appointments are as follows: The Ministry of Mineral Resources and National Directors: Energy (MIREME) was created by presidential decree number 1/2015 of 16  Moisés Paulino –National Director January as a result of a merger of the of Hydrocarbons and Fuels; then Mineral Resources and Energy ministries.  Pascual Bacela –National Director of Energy; Source: Folha de Maputo

 Eugenio Simbine – Director of LNG oversupply could impede FIDs Planning and Cooperation; The two major projects for the  Ilidio Bambo – Director for the construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) Legal Office; and facilities in northern Mozambique could be delayed as the global market faces an  Dino Milisse – Director of the impending oversupply, according to the National Museum of Geology. energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.

Deputy Directors: Huge reserves of natural gas have been found in the Rovuma Basin off the  Marcelina Mataveia – National Mozambican coast; about 200 trillion Deputy Director of Energy; and cubic feet of gas have been discovered by

consortiums led by the US company on how quickly we can get the Anadarko and by ENI of Italy in adjoining agreements from government”. areas. Anadarko intends to develop an onshore LNG facility on the Afungi However, if Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is Peninsula (in Cabo Delgado Province), correct, global demand could also impact while ENI intends to build a floating the timing of a final investment decision. offshore LNG plant. Thus a delay in FID may not necessarily be down to the Mozambican government. However, in an interview with Agencia de Informacao de Moçambique, Noel Tomnay told reporters that: “both Tomnay, vice-president of global gas and companies remain positive that the final LNG research for Wood Mackenzie, investment decision will be made by end warned that: “there is a sense, with the of year. While that remains possible, it will downturn in the growth outlook for LNG, a be challenging to secure end user market window of opportunity may have been for all the proposed LNG”. missed”. He praised Anadarko, stating that it “has Tomnay pointed out that key LNG done a terrific marketing job and has purchasers in Asia are not in a rush to achieved agreements over large swathes conclude new contracts since there will of its LNG output”. However, he warned soon be an oversupply as projects already that “buyers want to keep as many under construction come on-stream. projects warm as possible”.

According to Wood Mackenzie’s research, This may be less of a problem for the global LNG supply is presently around smaller ENI project, a proposed facility of 250 million metric tons per annum between 2.5 and three mmtpa. The (mmtpa) and there is a further 140 mmtpa smaller volume could be underpinned by of capacity under construction. some portfolio players, intermediaries who trade LNG, matching supply and demand Tomnay added that in the United States in markets around the world. around 60 mmtpa of supply is currently under construction, with roughly 20 However, in a recent blog, Tomnay asked: mmtpa still being marketed. “where are all the LNG project postponements?” It is in this context that Anadarko is trying to tie up contracts for 12 mmtpa for its He pointed out that: “most companies project which it hopes to bring online in continue to push ahead with their new 2020. It stated at the end of August that it LNG projects. Major project operators has secured around 90% of the advance including Shell, PETRONAS, ENI, sales it needs in order to push ahead with Anadarko, BP, ExxonMobil and Woodside the LNG project (through “heads of all still claim that their projects will take agreement”, or non-binding accords). FID before the end of 2016”.

Interviewed by the news agency For Tomnay, “some developers may be Bloomberg, the company’s country worried that a loss of momentum could manager John Peffer said that the final favour their competitors and that a project investment decision (FID) “is predicated postponement may be tantamount to a

cancellation. Postponement at some Sasol CEO stresses Mozambique as projects could invalidate contracts for the key to regional expansion plans portion of LNG sold so far, and jeopardise hard-won stakeholder support, including Sasol Ltd appears to be focusing its from local communities”. spending power on Mozambique. Sasol, the world’s largest producer of liquid fuel Low oil prices will also affect how the gas from coal, has joined OAO Rosneft and is used domestically. Tomnay told Exxon Mobil in bidding for new exploration reporters that companies are conscious of blocks in the southern African nation. the government’s desire to use some of the resource locally. He stated that some According to Chief Executive Officer of these commitments could be met David Constable, earlier in July Sasol through developing fertiliser plants or partnered with Italy’s ENI SpA and Statoil power stations. However, he added that ASA to bid for two of the blocks in the low oil prices make the economics of gas- country’s fifth licensing round, while on a to-liquid (turning the gas into products third it entered into a partnership with such as gasoline or diesel fuel) very Mozambique’s state oil company. Sasol is difficult. also seeking approval for the development of two oil and two gas Tomnay pointed out that Canada and reservoirs, which could potentially supply Mozambique are very much in a 400 megawatt (MW) power plant in the competition over LNG supply, with many country. buyers weighing up the pros and cons of the two countries. Constable hopes that the government will approve its reservoir development plans However, he was very positive about the before the end of the year, as Sasol plans long-term prospects for Mozambique, on expanding its upstream resources in which “has a world class gas resource the region. The company’s other focus, as which will be developed, leading its conserves cash amid a slump in crude Mozambique to be one of the largest LNG prices, is to have an ethane cracker in the producers in the world. It is a matter of US operational by 2018. when, not if”. “Mozambique is very important for us”, Commenting on the interest Mozambique said Constable. “We’re conserving cash received during the fifth licencing round as part of the response plan so that we for exploration and production of can pay for the cracker and pay for hydrocarbons in 15 blocks, Tomnay Mozambique”. stressed, “I can understand why more and more companies want to hold a position in Sasol is also supportive of South Africa’s a resource rich country. But this is a long programme to use natural gas to generate term plan”. 3,126 MW of power, Constable said. The company’s involvement could range from Seven companies applied to be operators sourcing LNG to building facilities to including ENI, US giant ExxonMobil, the receive the imports, he said. South African company Sasol, and the French company Total. Source: Agencia de Informacao de Moçambique/John Hughes

In addition to the government programme, replacing Nuno de Oliveira, who has held “we’ve got commercial customers crying the post since 2012. out for gas”, Constable said. The decision was taken by the Source: Bloomberg shareholders of the company at a meeting on 26 August. Prior to his appointment, Engen’s new terminal in Beira port to the company’s new CEO served as boost regional fuel security Director-General of Petromoc Sasol.

On Friday 11 September, Engen During said meeting it was decided to announced that it has opened a new replace Eduardo dos Santos Magalhães 24,000 cubic metre terminal in as Director for Operations. He is replaced Mozambique that will boost regional fuel by Ovídio Rodolfo, the former Director- security. General at Inpetro.

The terminal in Beira will supply petrol, Source: O País diesel and lubricants to the southern African country where massive coal and Triton Minerals produces graphene offshore gas finds are stimulating from Mozambique graphite economic growth, as well as neighbouring Zimbabwe and Botswana. Triton Minerals has successfully produced commercial grade graphene oxide from In November 2014, the company in various graphite concentrate grades charge of the construction works sourced from its projects in Mozambique. announced the expected improvement on the stability of fuel supply following the Standard extraction methods readily successful completion of the Engen allowed production of 250ml of high Petroleum Depot Terminal Upgrade concentration graphene oxide solution Project, located in the CFM Port in Beira from just 1.5 grams of Triton Mozambique (Sofala Province). Graphite (TMG).

The upgrade project involved the Graphene oxide solution is sold implementation and connection of a commercially in a diluted form pipeline from the Engen depot to the (concentration at 4mg/ml) and can sell for Companhia Do Pipeline Mozambique- up to US$400 for 250ml. Zimbabwe Limitada (CPMZ) Pump Station inside the port. The government-sponsored laboratory in Singapore also successfully produced Source: Reuters/Media Ngage graphene powder by simply reducing (drying) the TMG graphene oxide solution. Petromoc restructures Board of Directors – Fernado Uache is the new These developments further expand the CEO TMG product range. It also represents an opportunity for the company to carve a Fernando Uache has been appointed slice of a sector that is very much in its Chief Executive Officer of Petromoc, the infancy. Petroleum Company of Mozambique,

In August, the company produced worth US$4 million, to fix the potential spherical graphite suitable for lithium ion dilution of Xtract’s current share capital to batteries and energy storage applications 11%. as well as commencing trial production of enhanced graphite products at partner The cash consideration rises to US$7 Yichang Xincheng Graphite Ltd’s million, from US$4.5 million. Of that, US$2 Dongyang factory in China. million will now come from project finance with a further US$1 million to be retained Brad Boyle, managing director, for any potential tax liability. commented: “The successful production of the Graphene Oxide and Graphene Xtract’s Chief Executive, Jan Nelson, said through standard industrial techniques, that, in addition to reducing unnecessary once again demonstrates the high quality dilution, the use of project finance would and versatility of the TMG products. conserve cash resources.

“The remarkable properties of Graphene Discussions with lenders are at an are well known and now that TMG has advanced stage, he added, with firm shown to be ideally suited to create the proposals expected over the next three wonder material, this now creates further months. possibilities for Triton to expand their market presence and to explore an even Manica includes the Fair Bride open pit, broader client base and revenue where a bankable feasible study (BFS) is streams”. due in six months and production a year later. With the recent discovery of a new zone with visible jumbo flake graphite, the “We are also pleased to report that the company is well placed to expand its Manica project remains on track to market presence and to explore a broader commence operations in 16 months, with customer and application base and gold production of 50koz per annum, in revenue stream. accordance with previous announcements”, Nelson said. Triton had US$8.6 million in cash as at 30 June 2015. Source: Proactive Investors

Source: Proactive Investors Australia Manica Province wants 85 mining licenses cancelled Xtract Resources adjusts Manica purchase terms to limit future dilution The Provincial Directorate of Mineral Resources and Energy in Manica Xtract Resources has re-negotiated the Province has proposed the cancellation of terms of its acquisition of the Manica gold 85 mining licenses so far this year, citing project in Mozambique to stop bigger than various irregularities. expected dilution from future share payments. These irregularities include: failure to provide information on production, The price of the deal remains at US$12.5 inactivity in the concession areas and million, but vendor Auroch Minerals has forfeiture of mining titles, among others. agreed to take a set number of shares,

Approximately half of the proposed Mapai substation is ready cancellations pertain to Manica district, considered the most critical in the The construction of the Mapai substation province in terms of exploitation of natural infrastructure is officially complete. The resources. new substation has the capacity to connect more than 2,500 consumers in The Provincial Director of Mineral regions such as Dindiza, Combomune, Resources and Energy in Manica, Olavo Machaila, Massangena and Deniasse, says that, of the 39 proposed Chicualacuala, amongst others located to cancellations in the district, 10 were the north of Gaza Province. cancelled due to lack of renovation, and 11 more may be cancelled in the near The project was funded by the future. government, in partnership with the Korea Exim Bank. The total cost of the project is Manica Province has 12 small-scale estimated at US$52 million, which was mining licenses, 27 mining concessions used for the construction of the substation and 154 licenses to prospect and explore. and a feeder line at 110 kilovolts (kV) from Lionde. Source: Notícias The unit has two 110kV panels, seven Grupo Videre just keeps growing 33kV panels and a new transformer with the capacity of 16 megavolt amperes The Grupo Videre owned by a former (MVA). minister and member of the ruling Frelimo party, Alcinda Abreu, and his two sons, Data from Electricidade de Moçambique Dingane Abreu Mamadhusen and (EdM) indicates that the Mapai substation Chivambo Mamadhusen, is forging ahead has designated two lines of 33kV for in Mozambique’s energy sector. Massangena and Chicualacuala. These lines have reportedly been completed and The group has just incorporated a new span a distance of 202 and 85 kilometres, subsidiary in Maputo under the name of respectively. Grupo Videre Mining, specialising in exploring and producing both minerals Owing to its strategic location, the and oil and gas products. substation will also have the ability to drain energy from the Kuvaninga Thermal Founded in 2012, Grupo Videre is already Plant (40 MW), in the district of Chokwe. active in mining. It has a partnership with In the near future it is expected that the the American RHB Group, with which it substation will also be able to redirect founded the mining services firm CMS in power from the Central Hídrica de Pemba in the north of the country. It also Massingir. holds a stake in Consolidated Oil and Gas Services (COGS), the Mozambique The next step of this project will be to affiliate of the South African firm Mining electrify the administrative posts. Oil and Gas Services. The electrification of the northern areas of Source: Africa Intelligence Gaza Province will significantly improve the lives of the locals. Medical units will

now have the ability to offer extended Casimiro Nyusi’s new South African care hours and the education sector will partner officially launch evening classes. The retail and banking sectors are also The Grupo Namatil, a firm in which expected to benefit from this project. Casimiro Nyusi (brother of Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi) has held a stake Source: Jornal Notícias since January, has found two new partners. Zambia begins importing electricity from Ressano Garcia In August the firm teamed up with South Africa’s Palace Group, which acquired a On Wednesday 9 September, Zambia’s 67% interest, and the Mozambican power company Zesco began importing company based in Matola, Betaworks 148MW of electricity from a gas fired Consultoria e Construcao Civil (5%) to generator based in Ressano Garcia in form a joint venture named Namatil southern Mozambique. Energia.

The gas is extracted from the Pande and The venture will specialise in the Temane fields in Inhambane Province and production, transmission and distribution piped to the Mozambique-South Africa of electricity as well as in electrical border where the British based company equipment. Aggreko has its generator. The electricity is then transmitted to Zambia along the As for the Palace group, it was founded in existing transmission lines of the Southern 1987 by Mbuso Dlamini, who still runs the African Power Pool (SAPP). company. It specialises in civil engineering and construction and works Zambia’s decision to import the electricity primarily for the South African government is in response to a severe power (construction of hospitals, electricity sub- shortage. This is not only affecting stations, etc.) and for the national power citizens, but is also hitting the key mining utility, Eskom. sector. For its part, Betaworks belongs to Strangely, the Zambian government Mozambican national Yolanda Alberto previously claimed that the power Zesco Muchabjewho also works for Palace is importing comes from an Aggreko ship Group as its business manager. Grupo moored at Beira. Namatil was set up in late 2014 by lawyer Antonio Salvador Nkamate; Muilene This was the story given to the Zambian Lagos Lidimu, who is close to President media on Tuesday 8 September, by Nyusi; and Simbili Alberto Puchar government spokesperson, Vincent Mtumuke, son of general Atanasio Mwale. However, when Agencia de Salvador Mtumuke. Informacao de Moçambique contacted Aggreko, the company confirmed that the Source: Africa Intelligence power comes not from Beira, but from Ressano Garcia.

Source: Agencia de Informacao de Moçambique

Swazi port proposal via canal no hoax seaport that we will have will be of first world status and will have better facilities Officials in Swaziland have set the record compared to Maputo and Durban. The straight about plans for a ZAR30 billion deeper the seaport the better, and ours inland port and a canal linking the country will be better than Maputo and Durban”, to the sea. Minister Dlamini said.

According to recent statements by Gideon In March, the Maputo port’s management Dlamini, the country’s Minister of company Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Commerce, Industry, and Trade, the do Porto de Maputo (MPDC) commenced project is not a hoax. Admitting that the a dredging operation to increase the port’s canal would be three times longer than depth from 11 to 14 metres. Ships of originally announced, the minister also 80,000 tons will be able to dock at said that the undertaking was not to be a Maputo. MPDC is targeting cargo private project – as initially believed – but movement of 40 million tons annually by would be carried out in partnership with 2020. MPDC is a private partnership the government of Swaziland. between the Mozambique state port and rail company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro “Sceptics always look at the world through de Moçambique (CFM), Grindrod of South dirty glasses”, Minister Dlamini told Africa, DP World of the United Arab reporters on Sunday 6 September. Emirates, and Mozambique’s Gestores.

Correcting initial reports, the minister said The port of Durban, Africa’s busiest that the Swazi port is to be located 70 shipping terminal and the Southern kilometres inland and not 26 kilometres Hemisphere’s fourth largest container from the Indian Ocean. He said that the terminal, is 11.8 metres at its shallowest facility would outshine the large and long- point. Development plans call for dredging established port of Maputo, which is to 15 metres to accommodate the world’s located only 50 kilometres or less from largest container ships. Behemoth cargo any possible Swazi canal which would vessels and cruise ships already regularly open to the sea. According to the call on Durban, which like Maputo, has for government, the Swazi port would also centuries been a fixture on the world’s sea put the busy port of Durban (South Africa) lanes. to shame. No known international investors or firms “The problem with the Maputo and familiar with port and canal building and Durban ports is their shallowness. These operations have been attached to the two ports are not deep enough to handle Swazi project, which has been proposed heavy ships and we have received reports by two local businessmen. The Swazi that there are ships that face difficulty government has dismissed concerns docking in these ports because they are about the port’s practicality and viability. not deep enough”, he said. “Today we have mobile phones but “The proposal for our seaport shows that people were sceptical when it will be very deep and this would enable manufacturers announced the coming of bigger ships that cannot dock in both this technology. Even with airplanes, Maputo and Durban to come here. The people were sceptical about them, but

they turned out to be a tremendous However, to connect with the lake the success”, Minister Dlamini told reporters. Swazi canal would have to be diverted He did not reveal where financing for the northward rather than moving in a straight port and canal would originate. easterly direction to the sea. The canal would also have to cross the Mbuluzi The site selected for the port is centred in River that feeds the Pequenos Libombos. a protected conservation area that is The large river would have to be diverted home to two major game parks. across a section of southern Mozambique Environmentalists say that the area would or made to flow underground beneath the be devastated by the intrusion of major canal. industrial development. An enormous canal at least 15 metres deep to duplicate Minister Dlamini seemed unconcerned the depth planned for Durban would have with these technical matters when he to be built, mostly on Mozambican said, “The architects who presented the territory. project to us demonstrated how this would be overcome and we were impressed. Mozambique’s government has not been Surveys have been done and the officially notified about the project, even steepness of the terrain will be dealt with”. though two-thirds of the massive canal would be dug through Mozambique, Source: The Citizen somewhere south of Maputo. Commenting on the proposal, Agencia de President Nyusi praises Portucel for Informacao de Moçambique described the investing in rural Mozambique project as unnecessary and technically more complicated than proposers have On Tuesday 8 September, President acknowledged. Filipe Nyusi inaugurated the largest eucalyptus nursery in Africa, at Lua, in Ile “Canals are fine for transporting goods district (Zambézia Province). over flat terrain – but if there are hills in the way, locks must be built, dramatically The eucalyptus trees grown in the nursery increasing the costs. Building a canal with will eventually be used to produce paper a system of locks capable of holding in an investment by the company ocean-going vessels would be a massive Portucel-Mocambique. 80% of the shares engineering undertaking”, the agency in this company are held by the noted. Portuguese paper giant Portucel- Soporcel, and the remaining 20% are held To raise and lower ships from the ocean by the International Finance Corporation to the port, which will be 275 metres (IFC), a member of the World Bank group above sea level, more than a series of which focuses on funding for the private locks is required. A lake mid-route is sector in developing countries. needed to facilitate the process. An artificial lake, Gatun Lake, was excavated Portucel-Soporcel claims that this is its to enable the Panama Canal to operate. most modern tree nursery. It covers 7.5 hectares, and has an installed production A lake does exist in Mozambique that capacity of more than 12 million plants a could theoretically be used, the Pequenos year. Currently it employs more than 130 Libombos Lake, west of Maputo. Mozambican workers.

Total investment in the nursery was over scoundrel, lights a match and burns this MT300 million (approximately US$7.5 all down, will you have jobs?” President million at current exchange rates). But Nyusi asked. Portucel says this is only the start. As the project is ramped up towards production, He praised Portucel for its courage in the total investment will increase to over investing in Mozambique, “particularly in MT96 billion meticais (US$2.4 billion). this province which is in need of investment”. This is expected to create at least 7,000 jobs in the provinces of Zambézia and President Nyusi said that the Portucel Manica, where the trees will be planted. forestry and paper project fitted perfectly The plantations will cover 160,000 into the government’s Five-Year hectares in Zambézia and 270,000 Programme for the 2015-2019 period, and hectares in Manica. would have “multiplier effects on the Mozambican agricultural and industrial The project will take a long time to reach fabric”. The project “will certainly promote maturity. Portucel’s factory producing the modernisation and industrialisation of cellulose, the raw material for paper, will our economy”. not be complete until the end of 2023. The chairperson of Portucel-Soporcel, During the inauguration ceremony, Pedro Queiroz Pereira, said that the President Nyusi told the crowd that: “this company does not intend to displace any undertaking is yours, and you are the communities already living in the areas ones who are going to work here”. The where the trees will be planted, and that a majority of jobs at the nursery are held by third of the area requested by Portucel will Mozambicans – President Nyusi said that be allocated for community use. he had only found one Portuguese technician training the Mozambican The chairman of Portucel-Mozambique, workers. Pedro Moura, said that over the next nine years the company plans to build a pulp “If you learn quickly, he [the Portuguese factory in the Mocuba district of Zambézia technician] will go home to his family, and Province. Plans also include the you will do the work yourselves”, the generation of electricity from the biomass President said. produced via forestry and industrial activity. President Nyusi praised Portucel for locating the nursery in a rural area. According to Moura, the pulp factory will However, he was sure that some criticism be built within the Mocuba Special would be raised on the grounds that: “Ile Economic Zone (SEZ). (District in Zambezia Province) is just bush” – but it was where the people lived, Information issued by Portucel- and he urged the residents to take good Mozambique indicates that, once care of the nursery. operational, this project should contribute approximately US$1 billion to He warned that investors are unlikely to Mozambique’s balance of trade. stay in Mozambique, if their projects are not safe. “If some smart guy, some

The company is adopting a mosaic and, if it is recovered, will increase the concept, where industrial forestry areas sit number of sugar factories in Mozambique alongside blocks of native forest and to a total of five. Investors have yet to be share space with community farming found for Açucareira do Luabo, in activities, housing and environmental Zambézia Province. protection areas. Mozambique is currently served by four Source: Lusa/Macauhub/Agencia de sugar manufacturers, Maragra and Informacao de Moçambique Xinavane in the south, and Mafambisse and Marromeu, in the central region. Investors express interest in recovering Companhia do Buzi Source: Macauhub

A group of investors have expressed European Union bans goat meat from interest in recovering Companhia do Búzi Tete (CB), located in Sofala Province, which has been at a standstill since 1994 due to Agriculture and Food Security authorities the obsolete state of its equipment, said in Tete have accused the European Union provincial governor Maria Helena Taipo. (EU) of blocking the export of the province’s goat meat to the European The governor told reporters that the group market by imposing excessive restrictions. of investors expressed their interest in the company during the Facim. According to the Director of Agriculture and Food Security, Américo Conceição, In addition to the interest shown in the EU member countries require, for recovery of Companhia do Búzi, which example, that animals are not only was once a major sugar producer in vaccinated against foot and mouth Mozambique, Governor Taipo also disease, but also that they have never mentioned an investment in a factory for had it. “They also demand that the processing tomatoes, also in Búzi. animals are fed only grass and never animal feed or synthetic foods”, said In 2011 an announcement was made that Conceição. Companhia do Búzi would start producing sugar again in the first half of 2014 after a The most obvious, added Conceição, was 15-year standstill. that the production surplus was to be exported, for example to Europe, as is the The company’s president, Jorge Petiz, case in many African countries in general said at the time that the business plan for and Southern Africa in particular, this project, which would involve an specifically Botswana, but that cannot be investment of US$120 million, was being due to EU requirements. drafted by Portuguese bank BPI, which will also negotiate and set up its financing “Potential buyers of Tete goat meat even operation, with an appropriate capital want to interfere with the slaughter, structure by the end of the year. processing and transportation”, which in Conceição’s opinion is not justifiable. “No Açucareira do Búzi is one of six sugar producer is able to meet the European factories that previously existed in demands fully”, he said. Mozambique during the colonial period

“The result is that many goat farmers and plastic bags. The staff at shops and other even cattle farmers in Tete remain poor, sales outlets must now ask consumers given that their prices are not competitive. whether they want plastic bags, and if Even large-scale producers and those they do, they must be charged for them. processing the meat with modern means At the check-out, staff must inform complain about the lack of a market consumers of the cost of plastic bags, and capable of giving profits able to outweigh this sum must be shown on the receipts. the investment”, he added. The government decree bans the import Tete Province is known throughout and sale of plastic bags that are less than Mozambique for its goat meat, which is 30 micrometres thick. Exceptions to this consumed across the country. Farmers rule are the plastic bags used to weigh nevertheless have surplus to export. foodstuffs, and those specifically used to hold urban solid waste. Source: Notícias/Folha de Maputo Recycled plastic is regarded as a health Government and industry discuss the hazard. No plastic bag with a recycled cost of plastic bags content of more than 40% may be used in establishments that handle foodstuffs. Mozambican consumers will have to pay for the plastic bags that were previously Deputy Minister Senda told the meeting distributed free of charge in shops and that discussions are being held to make markets, and the government is currently traders aware of the new regulations. “We discussing a fixed price with the country’s are going to the markets with a plastic producers. programme to make them aware of the changes”, she said. “We are going to the On Wednesday 9 September, the deputy large supermarkets and the small minister of land, environment and rural supermarkets. We shall also go to the development, Ana Senda, met with bakers’ associations, since we know that traders and plastic bag manufacturers in many plastic bags are used in the Maputo to discuss the government’s bakeries”. recently approved regulations to manage and control the ubiquitous bags. The The government is encouraging, as government hopes to discourage the alternatives, the use of bags or baskets indiscriminate use of plastic bags and made of other material (such as paper, thus protect the environment. straw or cloth). Deputy Minister Senda said there is great potential for expanding Deputy Minister Senda said that the the use of straw baskets, which could discussions sought to establish the cost of encourage the growth of an artisanal producing the bags, and on that basis a industry. price will be set for selling them. Although the makers of plastic bags said The government regulations, which will they are willing to obey the new come into force early next year, six regulations, the South African months after they were published in the supermarket chain, Shoprite, raised some official gazette, the Boletime da objections. Shoprite representative Maria Republica, ban the free distribution of Rodriguez claimed that there would be

difficulties in limiting the use of plastic served only by Maputo International bags. Airport, the central region by Beira Airport and the northern region by Nacala Airport. “We tried to sell plastic bags, but we had to retreat, and continue to give them Emanuel Chaves also said that the away”, she claimed. “Since we will now remaining airports – Nampula, Pemba have to sell the bags again, it would be and Vilankulos – will no longer receive very good to regulate this”. international traffic.

The Shoprite supermarket in Maputo The main aim of this measure is to caters for approximately 3,000 clients a transform Nacala International Airport into day, and on average they each take more an international centre for passenger than two plastic bags. distribution, which will compete in the market with the airports of Johannesburg The deputy minister said the decision to (South Africa), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), restrict the use of plastic bags is Nairobi (Kenya) and Dar es Salaam “irreversible”. Indeed, were it possible, the (Tanzania). government would have banned plastic bags completely. Instead, it had opted for Speaking at a Facim seminar to publicise gradual elimination, and compulsory sale Nacala Airport, Chaves stressed that of the bags, in the hope that this would Mozambique will not be the first country to raise citizens’ awareness of the need to take such action. South Africa and protect the environment. Ethiopia have been aware of the economic benefits of reducing points of Source: Agencia de Informacao de international arrival and departure in their Moçambique respective territories for some time now.

Mozambique will have just three South Africa, for example, despite being a international airports much larger territory than Mozambique and having much more international air According to the Chairman of the state traffic, only has three international airport manager, Aeroportos de airports, while Ethiopia has a single point Moçambique (AdM), the country’s of entry and exit by air. international airports will be reduced to three as the southern region will be Source: Folha de Maputo/Macauhub

POLITICS

Chissano insists on meeting between decision. We want peace. We don’t President Nyusi and Dhlakama want to be cannon fodder, for bullets either of Renamo or of the government”. As mentioned in the previous Rhula Weekly Media Review, former president Points on the agenda could be Joaquim Chissano has thrown his discussed and changed during the weight behind calls for an urgent meeting itself, Chissano added. “An meeting between President Filipe Nyusi agenda is a piece of paper which people and Renamo leader, Afonso Dhlakama. produce to give some indication of how to carry out discussions”, he said. “But Speaking on Thursday 3 September, at when you want an open discussion, a Rádio Moçambique seminar, looking for solutions, the agenda can be Chissano urged the public to continue corrected during the discussion”. efforts to convince Dhlakama to accept an invitation for a face-to-face meeting People should stop thinking that this issued by President Nyusi on 24 August. was a question of two enemies talking, he urged. “He (Dhlakama) demanded an agenda and an agenda was presented”, “He (Dhlakama) calls me brother, and I Chissano pointed out. The President’s call him brother. So it’s not a discussion initial invitation simply asked Dhlakama between two enemies. It’s a family, and to come to Maputo to discuss “matters if the family is having a discussion, of peace and development”. there’s no reason to say ‘this is the agenda’”. When Dhlakama claimed that this was “too vague”, and insisted on a specific He pointed out that, in the past, much of agenda, President Nyusi responded with what Renamo brought to the discussion a proposed agenda containing three table had been accepted. “Even when points – analysis of the Agreement on this means moving the goalposts, this the Cessation of Military Hostilities did not prevent the discussions taking (signed on 5 September 2014), analysis place”. (The most striking example of of the dialogue between the government this was the government’s compliance and Renamo (now suspended on with almost all of Renamo’s demands Dhlakama’s orders), and for sweeping changes in the 2014 “miscellaneous”. electoral legislation).

Dhlakama rejected this proposal, and on The key issue is preventing the loss of 27 August he declared that: “There's human life. Chissano recalled hearing nothing! Forget it!” Dhlakama say that: “it doesn't matter if 20, 40 or 200 people die, that’s not However, for Chissano the agenda was important. What's important is the not a problem. “The important thing is to objective”. hold the meeting and that it discusses everything”, he said. “They should clarify Chissano rejected this blatant disregard matters to each other, and take a for life. “We have to value the lives of

each and every Mozambican”, he said. warned that, a year after signing the “And each Mozambican must do all in Agreement on the Cessation of Military his power to ensure that nobody else Hostilities, Mozambique is “sitting on a dies”. ticking time bomb”.

Chissano objected to Dhlakama’s “One does not need to hold up a description of the negotiations magnifying glass or be a political analyst concerning the peace agreement, which to see what is clear: peace in the two men signed in October 1992, as Mozambique cannot be taken for “playing around”. granted, and the country is sitting on a ticking time bomb”, said Domingos, who “I heard him say that he played with is currently the president of the extra- Armando Guebuza (the chief parliamentary Party for Peace, government negotiator in the peace Democracy and Development (PDD). talks, and later Chissano’s successor as president), and that he played with me. I According to the Domingos, the didn’t know that he was playing with negotiations leading up to the signing of me”, said Chissano. “I thought that he the Agreement on the Cessation of was working seriously with me. I never Military Hostilities (on 5 September thought about games”. 2014) presented an opportunity, which has since been missed, for securing a Hence today Dhlakama “should not lasting understanding of peace in the meet with the President to play, but to country. work and to reflect”. Chissano acknowledged the fact that any meeting “They were fruitless negotiations between President Nyusi and Dhlakama because the reasons that led to the could potentially encounter ambiguity conflict between 2013 and 2014 still and differences in opinions and prevail – in particular the lack of viewpoints. electoral legitimacy of political institutions and the fact that the country However, he maintains that this should is a one-party state and two armed not be an obstacle, “because it is parties exist”, Domingos notes. necessary to continue looking for consensus, since that’s what Domingos believes that the negotiations reconciliation is”. What is important, between the government and Renamo Chissano stressed, “is what unites us as should have been used to rethink the Mozambicans, so that we minimise what political system and deepen local divides us”. government processes as a way of easing the political tension. Source: Agencia de Informacao de Moçambique “The elections have indicated that there is an important sector of the country that “Mozambique is sitting on a ticking votes for the opposition because they do time bomb” – Raul Domingos not feel that they are represented by political institutions. This is because the Raul Domingos, the former second-in- current political system is based on the command of Renamo and negotiator for principle of ‘winner takes all’. This the Rome Peace Agreement, has

situation could be solved by returning During a press conference in Maputo, power to the provinces,” he said. the Frelimo Central Committee Secretary for Mobilisation and In Domingos’ opinion, the definitive Propaganda, Damiao José, described stabilisation of Mozambique is also Dhlakama as “an enemy of the being hampered by the fact that the Mozambican people who wants to current head of state, President Filipe destroy the achievements of the people Nyusi, has been “drifting” owing to the at all costs, just as he did during the 16- fact that he is attempting to deal with year war of destabilisation”. several factions fighting for power within Frelimo. Despite signing the Agreement on the Cessation of Military Hostilities, “today According to Domingos, “He is a new Dhlakama refuses to accept that his president of a Frelimo, who comes with armed men be unconditionally disarmed all the vices associated with 40 years of and integrated into the police and armed one-party rule, and with two or three forces”. groups fighting amongst themselves for power. He is adrift, as can be seen in José pointed out that it was completely the inconsistency of his (policy) unprecedented for a political party positions”. represented in the National Assembly to also possess armed men “who threaten The president of PDD believes that the citizens, and kidnap, beat and murder Agreement on the Cessation of Military them”. Hostilities was only reached for convenience, because the then- José claimed that Dhlakama is carrying president, Armando Guebuza, wanted to out instructions from his foreign give the impression that he had left “bosses”. When asked who these office with the country at peace. “bosses” are, and who is providing Renamo with its money, weapons and “Many advances that had eluded other supplies, José declined to answer. negotiators for months were achieved at meteoric speed as a result of pressure “Renamo knows where the money from a president who was leaving office, comes from”, he said, “Sooner or later and needed to give legitimacy to the Mozambicans will know who its bosses elections that were about to take place”, are”. Domingos says. According to unconfirmed reports Source: Lusa Dhlakama’s militia has been seen sporting new uniforms and weaponry. Dhlakama is “an enemy of the Additionally, José accused Renamo of Mozambican people” obtaining a fleet of new cars.

On Friday 4 September, Frelimo Dhlakama certainly does not seem to be declared that the Renamo leader, short of money. The cost of funding his Afonso Dhlakama, is behaving like a private army and his constant terrorist, and is “the enemy of peace and movements across central and northern the development of our country”. Mozambique would certainly be greater

than his one known source of income – responded with fear when they heard the monthly subsidy Renamo receives about a new barracks”. from the State Budget by virtue of its parliamentary representation. The Renamo claim was “a provocation against the defence and security Asked why the government, which forces”, he said. “It is intolerable that, in controls the borders, has failed or a country ruled by law, there is a party refused to stop Renamo from receiving with a force of armed men, whose new equipment, and why it has not leader threatens to set up new frozen Renamo bank accounts, José barracks”. declined to answer. José accused Dhlakama of being Renamo’s latest threat against the rule “allergic to dialogue”. Nonetheless, he of law involves the creation of what it appealed to the Renamo leader to calls “general staff headquarters” for its display some common sense, to look militia in Morrumbala district (Zambézia into his conscience “and forget, for the Province). On Thursday 3 September, time being, his unbounded ambition for Renamo spokesperson, António power”. Muchanga, told reporters that the barracks had been established the Frelimo has not given up on dialogue, previous day. He did not reveal the size José added, since it has “a duty to do all of this new military installation, or how in its power to create conditions for the many men it holds. well-being of Mozambicans”. The party would thus continue to urge Dhlakama Muchanga said that the creation of to accept President Filipe Nyusi’s these military headquarters was invitation for a face-to-face meeting. decided, not by Dhlakama, but by the recent meeting of the party’s José remains confident that “not all the demobilised fighters, held in Quelimane followers of Renamo want war”. (Zambézia Province). Source: Agencia de Informacao de That meeting ended on 21 August. So, if Moçambique the new Renamo barracks do exist, it cannot consist of anything more than a Maputo Archbishop calls for humility collection of flimsy huts as there has not and tolerance amongst political been enough time to build anything leaders more substantial. On Friday 4 September, the Archbishop José was unable to confirm Muchanga’s of Maputo, Dom Francisco Chimoio, claim. Since Frelimo certainly has called on political leaders to be humble members in Morrumbala, they should be and tolerant in the search for lasting able to confirm or deny whether peace in the country, declaring that the Renamo has built any new installations. Mozambican people are tired of But when reporters put this to José, he suffering. merely replied: “what we know is what The Archbishop was speaking to we heard. On the ground the people reporters following a meeting with President Filipe Nyusi, to whom he was

addressing an invitation to attend the Tete, where, on Monday 7 September, celebrations of the 75th anniversary of he presided over the central the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of celebrations of “Victory Day”, the 41st Maputo, held on Sunday 6 September. anniversary of the agreement on independence signed between Frelimo “For lasting peace in the country, we and the Portuguese government in need to see the gift of humility and Lusaka, on 7 September 1974. tolerance prevail amongst our leaders”, said Chimoio. President Nyusi noted that the Catholic Church recently called on the general Chimoio pointed out that Mozambican public to value all people, particularly Catholics are concerned with the those who have been identified as being uncertain scenario regarding peace in the most vulnerable and in need. “We Mozambique and they call for a are renewing our strength so that we permanent solution. can live in communion and reconciliation”, he said. “We are concerned, but hopeful that the situation will change”, said Chimoio. The President’s attendance at the mass in Tete coincided with celebrations in The instability and uncertainty in the Maputo of the 75th anniversary of the country is due to threats issued by establishment of the Catholic Renamo leader, Afonso Dhlakama, to Archdiocese of Maputo. govern by force in the six central and northern provinces of the country in President Nyusi was represented at the which the movement claims victory in Maputo jubilee ceremonies, held at the the general elections of 15 October Machava stadium, by Prime Minister 2014. Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, who called on all religious believers, and on Dhlakama’s refusal to accept an society at large, to take concrete action invitation from President Filipe Nyusi to to maintain and consolidate peace. attend a face-to-face meeting in Maputo has reportedly heightened fears Prime Minister Rosário told the amongst the local population that peace thousands of attendees that only with is in the balance. effective peace could all Mozambicans continue to “work wonders” in the Source: Lusa coming years. He was referring to the theme of the Catholic celebrations, President Nyusi and Prime Minister which was: “Give thanks to the Lord for Rosário praise the role of Catholic the wonders achieved during these Church in Mozambique years”. On Sunday 6 September, President “I would like to invite all those present to Filipe Nyusi praised the role of the exalt and put into practice the noblest Catholic Church in the preservation of values of believers, such as forgiveness, peace and national reconciliation. reconciliation, friendship, love for one’s He was speaking at a mass held at the neighbour and concord”, said the Prime Catholic cathedral in the western city of Minister. “These are some of the pillars

for strengthening a stable, peaceful and Addressing a rally in the western city of united society”. Tete, at the central “Victory Day” celebrations, President Nyusi, in a clear “My brothers, if we threaten and kill reference to Renamo, said that: “there each other, we will gain nothing”, he are still Mozambicans who continue to warned. “With hatred, rancour, rage, think of a country cut into pieces, as if a and jealousy towards each other, there living being, such as our country, could will never be harmony in our families or survive without some of its limbs and development in the country”. vital organs”.

The Prime Minister took the opportunity They are Mozambicans who do not to praise the Catholic Church for its role understand that it was unity that led to in educating the communities, Mozambican independence, he demonstrating the importance of unity, continued. It was unity that brought peace, social well-being and mutual Mozambicans from across the country understanding. to fight on the Tete front against the colonial army in the late 1960s and early The Archbishop of Maputo, Francisco 1970s. Chimoio, said that national unity and the common good cover all members of In Tete, “the battle was fought that Mozambican society, and nobody was strengthened the idea that Frelimo was exempted from co-operating. National in fact a national body and unity is built every day with the Mozambicans of all origins came to participation of all Mozambicans, without express the will of the people to be free exclusion, he declared. of the colonial yoke”, he declared.

“If socio-cultural and political inclusion Mozambicans fought against colonialism are the pillars of national unity, the path without discrimination of any kind, not to its consolidation is the sincere search only on the battle fronts, but also in the for true dialogue, where each one feels clandestine networks in the cities, or in free to express his own opinions”, the diaspora. Thus the benefits resulting professed the archbishop. from independence were not for any particular group “but for everyone, Source: Folha de Maputo/Agencia de feeding the entire nation”, he insisted. Informacao de Moçambique President Nyusi also paid tribute to “our “There are still Mozambicans who natural allies, Zambia and Tanzania”, think of a country cut into pieces” – who had provided the rear bases from Nyusi which the Frelimo guerrilla army could operate. They had proved “critical in On Monday 7 September, President achieving our objectives. If they had Filipe Nyusi said he regrets that “there are still some Mozambicans who do not never opened their doors to us, we understand that only united are we the would have had enormous difficulties in Mozambique that we are and that we carrying our message of liberation, want to be”. embodied in our fighters, to Tete”.

But President Nyusi warned that there According to Governor Razak, the were also Mozambicans who live on the country’s achievements are the result of sweat of others, through “the independence and of the commitment exploitation of man by man” against and sacrifices made by Mozambicans. which the Frelimo guerrillas had fought. “Victory Day” should therefore be a time Today that phenomenon is known as for reflection, about the construction of a corruption and it is “an ally of the common destiny for all Mozambicans poverty of our people, an enemy of without any exclusion. development, and responsible for social inequalities that cannot be justified”. The mayor of Quelimane, Manuel de Araujo, who is a leading figure in the Today, 40 years after independence, “it opposition Mozambican Democratic makes no sense for Mozambicans to Movement (MDM), has accused the oppose each other and fail to reach an government of following a policy of understanding”, said the President. exclusion. “Nobody will be right, and not even I will claim to be right, if Mozambique does However, Governor Razak stressed not live in peace”. that, in reality the government is committed to inclusion. When it builds a The only enemy that Mozambique must school, a hospital, a road or a power fight against is poverty, he insisted. “We line, it is to serve all Mozambicans, he fight against poverty through the work of insisted. all of us, with each one contributing through his or her skills. The best way “We urge everyone to be architects of we can celebrate the victory over peace in their families and in society”, colonialism is to commit ourselves to said the governor. “We urge the leader this work”. of Renamo [Afonso Dhlakama] to agree to enter into dialogue with President “Nobody must exempt themselves from Filipe Nyusi in order to preserve the this challenge of the moment, under peace which guarantees the whatever pretext”, he urged. development and well-being of all”.

Source: Agencia de Informacao de Resorting to war only brings destruction, Moçambique he warned. “Mozambicans want a united an indivisible Mozambique”, Governor Governor of Zambézia calls for Razak added. “We must continue to defence of national unity cultivate national unity and defend the integrity of our sovereignty”. On Monday 7 September, the Governor of Zambézia, Abdul Razak, urged all Source: Agencia de Informacao de Mozambicans to defend national unity, Moçambique as a basic requirement for the preservation of peace. Milange district administrator defies Dhlakama He was speaking in the provincial capital, Quelimane, at a “Victory Day” On Monday 7 September, the ceremony. administrator of Milange district (Zambézia Province), Alves Mathe,

publicly denied claims made by Afonso Mathe assured Dhlakama that he would Dhlakama that he had run away from never run away from the district that he the district. had been appointed to by the legitimate government. He said that Mozambique On 30 August, speaking in the town of only has one President, Filipe Nyusi, Mopeia, Dhlakama boasted that he was elected last October, and warned beginning to take over governance in Renamo members that the government the six provinces where he claimed will deal with anyone who attempts to Renamo had won the October 2014 create disturbances in the district. general elections – including Zambézia. On Sunday 6 September, the local “All that remains is to expel the authorities refused to let Dhlakama use provincial governors and district the Milange municipal sports field for administrators”, he declared. As for the one of his rallies. A strong police police, he threatened that if any police contingent was mobilised and blocked commander “tries to obey Frelimo the Renamo supporters’ access to the orders, takes up arms or provokes field. Eventually, Dhlakama was obliged Renamo, we shall destroy him”. to hold his meeting at the local Renamo offices. When Dhlakama addressed rallies in Milange district during the week 28 Last week, in the localities of Mongue August to 4 September, he allegedly and Dachadua, Dhlakama boasted that claimed that Mathe “fled from the district Renamo had set up “barracks” in and his whereabouts are unknown”. Morrumbala and Milange districts. He also told the heads of administrative Mathe denied this in the most public posts and localities to pack their goods way possible – he showed up in person and leave, otherwise they would be on Monday at Heroes Square in the driven out. town of Milange and addressed a crowd on the occasion of “Victory Day”. Source: Agencia de Informacao de Moçambique It was possible for Dhlakama to hear Mathe’s speech, since both he and a Government “sensitive to veterans” – Renamo delegation were at a nearby President Nyusi hotel, preparing to leave the town. Dhlakama’s motorcade subsequently On Monday 7 September, President arrived at the square and recorded Filipe Nyusi promised that his Mathe’s speech before driving off to government remains sensitive to the continue Dhlakama’s tour of Zambézia. situation of veterans of the national liberation struggle. Mathe advised the Renamo leader “not to play with the Constitution of the Speaking in the western city of Tete, at Republic”, and urged him to respect the the “Victory Day” celebrations, President legally established government and Nyusi said that: “We don’t want to turn state institutions, rather than incite his our backs on our history. The veterans followers with talk of a return to war. are the precursors of this country’s history. So we are designing various

models to make them more useful, is completely utopian to dream of other because we will all gain from their self- achievements”. sufficiency”. “We shall rely on your example”, he told But since independence there had been the veterans, “so that we do not remain other wars. “Today we have veterans permanently poor, so that, from your who do not come from the national example, we are able to step up our liberation era, but we recognise that efforts on the front of production, and they too gave their sweat in defence of a fight vigorously against the phenomena cause”. that hold us back”.

Implicitly, President Nyusi was granting Source: Agencia de Informacao de veteran status to all those who fought in Moçambique the war of destabilisation – not only in the government army (FADM), but also Speculation on Nyusi/Dhlakama in the ranks of Renamo. “My meeting as President travels to government is committed to treating Quelimane them as the Mozambicans they are, regardless of the disparity of the Late on Monday 7 September, President objectives for which they fought”, he Filipe Nyusi arrived in Quelimane said. “The government is instructed to (Zambézia Province) in order to open look at Mozambicans in the same way, the Third National Meeting of Religions, because they are citizens covered by held on Tuesday 8 September. our beautiful multi-coloured flag”. Owing to the fact that Renamo leader, They might have different professions, Afonso Dhlakama, is also currently in said the President, “but they are all the province rumours inevitably began united by the fact that they are circulating, suggesting that a meeting Mozambicans, children of the same between the two men might be on the motherland, with the same constitutional cards. rights”. On 24 August President Nyusi invited President Nyusi paid tribute to the Dhlakama to attend a face-to-face veterans, who in the past had brought meeting to discuss “matters of peace freedom and peace to Mozambique. and development”. Dhlakama initially The victory over colonialism, “is the fruit reacted by claiming that the invitation of your sweat, of your indescribable was “too vague”, and demanded a suffering, of your iron will to see us free, specific agenda. like other independent countries” he The President immediately responded said. “It is the fruit of the blood shed by with an agenda. However, Dhlakama countless Mozambicans”. The country subsequently rejected this as well and could never pay them back for the lives on 27 August he categorically refused to lost and the sacrifices made. meet with the President.

The goal of independence, President Dhlakama is currently in Milange district. Nyusi said, was peace “without which it He could have easily travelled to Quelimane to meet President Nyusi, or

an arrangement could be made for a benefit from this precious gift”, added meeting somewhere else in the President Nyusi. province. Dhlakama recently declined a new As of the end of the week, no reports of invitation extended by the President to a meeting in Zambézia have surfaced. discuss peace in the country, claiming that he would only meet President Nyusi Source: Agencia de Informacao de when the government fully complies with Moçambique existing agreements, including the Agreement on the Cessation of Military President Nyusi rejects the Hostilities and the Comprehensive imposition of conditions by Renamo Peace Agreement, signed in 1992.

On Tuesday 8 September, President “There is no reason to spill more blood Filipe Nyusi said that peace in of Mozambicans ... We know how much Mozambique requires a reconciliation of it costs”, said the President, adding that ideas and not the unconditional “no one, including the President, may acceptance of an offer, reiterating his claim that reason is on his/her side until willingness to meet with Renamo leader, the country experiences effective Afonso Dhlakama. peace”.

President Nyusi, who was speaking at Source: Lusa the opening of the Third National Religious Conference, held in the city of MDM condemns war of words Quelimane (Zambézia Province), between President Nyusi and highlighted the importance of religious Dhlakama denominations in maintaining peace in Mozambique. The country’s third-largest political party, the MDM, has criticised the war of The President called on all words currently being waged between Mozambicans to promote tolerance and President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo generosity, essential virtues for the leader, Afonso Dhlakama. The MDM country’s welfare. has demanded that the two sides return to dialogue with the aim of restoring “The only way we can achieve and peace and increased economic maintain peace is if there is a true development. nobility of spirit and character from all of us”, he said. The leader of the MDM, Daviz Simango, believes that both President Nyusi and At a time when the country is under Dhlakama contradict themselves by threat of a new war, President Nyusi publically pronouncing that they are reiterated his willingness to meet with willing to sit down together, but in Dhlakama. practice they continue to wage a war of words against each other to the “We are confident that our brother detriment of peace and the welfare of [Dhlakama] also craves peace and this the population. gives us hope that he too will do everything so that Mozambicans can

During a recent interview MDM The Renamo amendment states that the spokesperson, Sande Carmona, said provincial governors will be proposed by that: “Any situation involving differences the elected provincial assemblies, and of opinion, of ways of living, must be then formally appointed by the President resolved through conversation, through of the Republic. Under the current a permanent and ongoing dialogue system, the President’s hands are free, involving all the active forces in the life and he can appoint whoever he likes. of Mozambique”. Renamo leader, Afonso Dhlakama, has “For us, the MDM, there is no room in demanded the right to govern six the country for people to turn their backs northern and central provinces where he on each other over differences of claims Renamo won the October 2014 opinion and of understanding, in any general and provincial elections. But in circumstance”, said Carmona. reality, Renamo only won outright majorities in three of the 10 provincial “There is such a lack of intelligence on assemblies (in Sofala, Zambézia and the part of the leadership, whether of Tete). In those provinces, the Renamo or Frelimo itself, or the assemblies could certainly be expected government, because they always keep to propose a Renamo candidate as these discussions going from a governor. distance, and often there is a lack of coherence in how they address the But in Nampula a tie occurred. Renamo differences between themselves”. and Frelimo each won 46 seats in the provincial assembly. This means that Source: Radio France International the sole assembly member from the MDM might decide who becomes Renamo submits constitutional governor, if the Renamo constitutional amendment amendment is passed.

Renamo has submitted a constitutional In Manica Province, although Dhlakama amendment to the National Assembly, won a narrow majority in the presidential which would strip the President of his election, Frelimo won the provincial right to choose provincial governors. election, with 40 seats in the assembly to 39 for Renamo and one for the MDM. According to reports, the Renamo bill containing its constitutional As for the sixth province, Niassa, amendments was submitted on 31 July, Dhlakama’s claim to victory is immediately before the close of a unsubstantiated. Frelimo won in the National Assembly sitting. presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections. In the Niassa It has been distributed to the deputies, assembly, Frelimo holds 42 seats to 34 and to the National Assembly’s working for Renamo and four for the MDM. The commission, so that they can provide Assembly would therefore almost written opinions. The matter is therefore certainly propose a Frelimo candidate likely to feature on the agenda for the for governor. next National Assembly sitting which begins in October.

In the other four provinces (Cabo Frelimo and Renamo parliamentary Delgado, Inhambane, Gaza and deputies were united in proposing to Maputo), Frelimo enjoys a comfortable separate the posts of head of state and majority in the provincial assemblies. head of government, reduce the powers Maputo City is both a province and a of the president, and increase those of municipality; and because the Municipal the prime minister and of parliament. Assembly covers the entire territory, there is no provincial assembly in the From 1996 to 1999 this was all city. undisputed until the Renamo parliamentary group, clearly acting The Renamo constitutional amendment under Dhlakama’s instructions, also seeks to change the article on performed a volte-face, and demanded types of municipalities, adding the the reinstatement of all the presidential specific category of “provincial powers it had previously claimed were municipality”. A Renamo bill seeking to excessive. immediately establish “provincial municipalities” in the six provinces it Since changing the Constitution requires claims was thrown out by parliament in a two thirds majority, which Frelimo April, on the grounds that the bill grossly could not muster on its own, the 1999 violated the Constitution. The Renamo draft amendments were aborted. In amendment seeks to remedy at least 2004, much more modest amendments some of the faults in its earlier bill. produced the current constitution, leaving the powers of the President of “The autonomy of local authorities does the Republic unchanged. not affect the integrity of the sovereignty of the state and shall be exercised In the last legislature (2010 to 2014), an within the framework of the ad-hoc commission was set up to draft Constitution”, reads paragraph 2, article constitutional amendments. Renamo 8 of Renamo’s bill, in an apparent submitted no amendments at all, and response to the plea used by Frelimo to instead boycotted the commission. reject the Provincial Authorities Draft Bill. Only now, in the wake of its defeat in the October 2014 elections, has Renamo Strangely enough, neither Dhlakama, decided it wants to amend the nor any other Renamo leader, has made Constitution, and restrict presidential any public mention of the proposed power. constitutional amendment in the weeks since it was submitted. Instead, Source: Lusa/Agencia de Informacao de Dhlakama has continued to threaten Moçambique that he will govern the provinces he Major reshuffle in the Ministry of wants “by force”. Justice, Constitutional and Religious Renamo’s attitude to the Constitution Affairs has changed dramatically. In the late The Minister of Justice, Constitutional 1990s, there was an attempt to move and Religious Affairs, Abdurremane Lino away from a presidential to a semi- de Almeida, has replaced a number of presidential system of government. ministry directors as part of efforts to

restructure the institution following the  Paulo António da Graça as approval of the new Organic Statute. director of the new Legal Office;

Minister de Almeida dismissed the  Ancha Mauricio Lazaro Manguele following individuals: de Sousa to the post of Deputy National Director of Legal and  Amelia Machaieie Monjane from Constitutional Affairs; and the Minister’s Office;  Silveira Sissora to the position of  Carla Guilaze Souto from the Head of the Procurement post of National Director of Department. Registries and Notaries; Reappointed to their respective  Ilda Tembe from the position of positions were: Human Resources Director;  Arão Asserone Litsure to the  Paulo António da Graça as position of National Director of director of the now-dissolved Religious Affairs; National Directorate of Legal Advice and Legislation; and  Albachir Macassar to the position of National Director of Human  Jaime Bulande Guta as director Rights and Citizenship; of the Bureau of Criminal Records.  João Ernesto Nhaúle for the post of Director of Information In a separate move, the minister Technologies and appointed: Communication;

 Jaime Bulande Guta as National  Nelson Celestino Sitoe to the Director of Registries and post of Director of Administration Notaries; and Finance; and

 Samuel Salimo as director of the  Manuel de Jesus Chitute Didier newly created Directorate for Malunga as Inspector-General of Parliamentary Affairs; Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs.  Zaira Ali Abudala as director of Human Resources; Meanwhile, the Provincial Directorates of Justice, Constitutional and Religious  Zita Maria Joaquim to the Affairs in Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, position of Director of Planning Tete, Cabo Delgado and Niassa keep and Cooperation; and Judite da their directors: Feniosse Jossias de Conceicao Bila Zimba as Amorim Cumbe, Marcos Jotamo Joaquim’s assistant; Cumbane, Cecilio Moisés Bila, Bizé Amade, Álvaro Floriano Gonçalves  Sérgio Raimundo Matule as chief Júnior and Anadia Statimila Estevão of the Minister’s Office; Cossa, respectively.

The position of Director of Justice, other officials, in matters linked to public Constitutional and Religious Affairs of administration. the City of Maputo is held by Sérgio João Soares Pinto, appointed last July Other tasks included updating the to replace Fátima Suzete. legislation on public administration, and building or rehabilitating the necessary Source: Jornal Notícias/Ministry of Justice, facilities for central and local Constitutional and Religious Affairs, press- government bodies and for the office municipalities.

Directors take office in Ministry of Success, she continued, would depend State Administration on the careful management of the human, material and financial resources On Wednesday 9 September, the allocated to the ministry. Minister of State Administration and Public Service, Carmelita Namashalua, Minister Namashalua said that the newly swore into office 18 national directors sworn-in officials are expected to and deputy national directors, warning demonstrate an attitude of humility, them that those who did not meet modesty and respect for their expectations would be replaced. subordinates.

“I want to warn all staff of this ministry, They must also “observe the law in their and particularly those who have just activity, deal with requests from citizens taken up leading positions, that we have in a timely manner, show good great challenges ahead of us, which management of state assets, maintain demand total commitment from all of labour discipline, and stimulate the us”, said Minister Namashalua. “Only functioning of leadership collectives”. then will we be able to contribute to the success of the government programme”. Source: Agencia de Informacao de Moçambique The national directors and deputy directors will be “under permanent President Nyusi meets SADC assessment”, she said, and those who executive secretary on political do not merit the trust placed in them will security in the region have to give way to others. On Wednesday 9 September, President The country’s development agenda, Filipe Nyusi granted an audience to the resting on the pillars of national unity, executive secretary for SADC, peace and progress, demands greater Stergomena Tax. dedication and responsibility in implementing short, medium and long The purpose of the meeting was to term plans and projects, she added. update the President on the political and security situation in the region. These included continual training and Mozambique currently chairs the capacity-building for government SADC’s Defence and Security members, local leaders, and members Cooperation Agency. of the provincial assemblies, among Source: Notícias/www.sadc.int

Seven new foreign ambassadors “We are facing psychological violence, present their credentials to President one of the most terrible things that can Nyusi exist”, said Minister Balói on the side- lines of an accreditation ceremony of the On Thursday 10 September, seven new seven new foreign ambassadors in foreign ambassadors, who will represent Mozambique. their respective countries in Mozambique, presented their The Minister expressed concern over credentials to President Filipe Nyusi in the threats to peace and stability in the Maputo. country, maintaining that this climate creates an environment of uncertainty, The new ambassadors are: affecting foreign investments. It is a view shared by the president of the CTA,  Rodrigo Soares of Brazil; Rogério Manuel.

 Su Jian of China; “The uncertainty is never good for any country”, said the minister, adding that  Johnny Flento of Denmark; the situation adds to the residual psychological trauma suffered during  Álvaro Cavada of Spain; the 16-year civil war.

 Jean Jhumun of Mauritius; “Threats to peace jeopardise everything. They are creating a climate of  Pascalle Grothenhuis of the uncertainty that is affecting our country”, Netherlands; and he said.

 Paul Lumbi of Zambia. During a separate meeting on Wednesday in Manica Province, The diplomats were all accredited during Rogério Manuel, who was addressing a separate meetings with the President, corporate business forum, expressed which provided an opportunity for initial his concern over the current political discussions. tension in the country.

Source: O País According to Manuel, local Minister Balói accuses Renamo of entrepreneurs fear that the return to psychological violence war, or even the threat thereof, will result in a reduction and/or retraction of On Wednesday 9 September, Foreign foreign investments. Affairs Minister Oldemiro Balói said that the threats issued by Renamo constitute According to local entrepreneurs, the as psychological violence against the statements issued by Afonso Dhlakama citizens of Mozambique. He emphasised pose a risk to the economic the importance of peace for those who development of the country. are still recovering from the trauma Source: RTP Notícias/O País associated with the civil war.

Macamo meets with Cassama to “We are willing to work with African discuss the situation in Guinea- countries to make this year’s Forum on Bissau China-Africa Cooperation [FOCAC] a success”, Yuanchao said. Speaker of the House, Verónica Macamo, recently called on the people During the course of the week 28 of Guinea-Bissau to recognise dialogue August to 4 September, China and as the only, and most effective, method South Africa announced the sixth for the identification of solutions to the ministerial meeting of FOCAC, which is country’s prevailing political situation. slated for 4-5 December in South Africa. The forum will be upgraded to a summit. These views were expressed during a courtesy meeting, that took place at the African state leaders will be invited to United Nations headquarters in New the summit, the second of its kind after York, between Macamo and her the Beijing summit in 2006. counterpart of Guinea-Bissau, Cipriano Cassama. FOCAC aims at achieving common development and prosperity of China During the meeting Macamo suggested and Africa. that the two countries strengthen parliamentary co-operation by signing a China is willing to strengthen party-to- Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). party exchanges with African countries and promote state-to-state relations and Source: Jornal Notícias the new type of China-African strategic partnership, Yuanchao added. Guebuza meets with vice president Yuanchao According to Yuanchao, China as a strategic partner of Africa, has assisted On Wednesday 9 September, the vice African countries with poverty president of China Li Yuanchao met with eradication and peace and development former African leaders, calling for joint efforts. efforts to ensure the success of the China-Africa summit in December. Source: Xinhua

Botswana’s former president Festus Brazilian Minister of Culture on Mogae; Mozambique’s former president working visit to Maputo Armando Guebuza; and South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki were On Friday 11 September, the Brazilian present at the meeting. Minister of Culture, Juca Ferreira, arrived in Maputo to meet with his Hailing China and Africa as a Mozambican counterpart, Minister Silva community of shared destiny, Yuanchao Dunduro. said that China’s Africa policy is characterised as being genuine, The visit is aimed at strengthening ties practical, close and sincere, with a of co-operation between the two future of enhanced co-operation. countries in the field of arts and culture.

The meeting will also discuss future Mozambican delegates observe development actions for the inclusion of Norwegian elections Mozambican culture in Brazil and other Latin American countries. The On of Tuesday 8 September, a participation of Mozambique in the delegation of National Assembly Bienal de São Paulo will also be deputies arrived in Oslo (Norway) to discussed. observe municipal elections in the European country. The two ministers are expected to sign an Action Plan for the promotion of The delegation consists of: the vice cultural and artistic industries, and for president of the National Assembly, the preservation of cultural heritage and Chomera Lucas; and parliamentary tourism. assistants Ezekiel Aramane and Emidio Guambe; as well of members of civil Source: A Bola society organsations.

Peruvian Ambassador to South The parliamentarians will monitor the Africa to also represent in current municipal elections and will Mozambique exchange experiences and processes with regards to municipalisation. The Executive Branch of Peru recently appointed Nicolas Alfonso Roncagliolo The delegation will return to Higueras, current Peruvian Ambassador Mozambique on 16 September. to South Africa, to concurrently serve as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Source: Jornal Notícias Ambassador of Peru to the Republic of Mozambique. II African Youth Conference on Democracy and Good Governance The Supreme Resolution notes that Roncagliolo took office as Ambassador The II African Youth Conference on to South Africa on 15 November, 2014. Democracy and Good Governance (AYC), being held in Maputo from 22-25 Likewise, the Mozambican Ministry of September, will host at least five former Foreign Affairs and Cooperation granted heads of state as “guests of honour”. Roncagliolo corresponding authorisation to carry out his duties. The conference, held under the theme: “Africa Beyond 2015”, is being The credentials and full powers have organised by the Parliamentary Youth been granted and signed by the Association of Mozambique. Peruvian President Ollanta Humala Tasso and Minister of Foreign Affairs So far confirmed guests include the Ana Maria Sanchez. former president of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano; the former President Source: Agencia Peruana de Notícias of the Republic of Burundi, Pierre Buyoya; the former President of the Republic of Sudan, Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Suwar al-Dahab; the global ambassador of the United Nations for

peace and social justice, Victor Ochen; whom the United States held a parallel the vice-president of the World Youth series of secret meetings with Dhlakama Assembly, Preye Ketebu-Brown; and in Malawi with the same purpose in the director of ZAYRAH-Africa, mind. Amukelani Mayimele. In his book, Cohen says that former Approximately 500 young African president George Bush convinced the leaders and activists are expected to then Mozambican head of state, attend the conference, which aims to Joaquim Chissano, that negotiations address issues such as the legacy and were the only way to end the civil war. lessons of African leaders; issues of peace and security in Africa; access to In a meeting with Arap Moi, Cohen resources; the empowerment of women complained that Dhlakama was a leader in Africa; the potential of the agriculture with whom it was “not easy to and mining industries in Africa; sexual communicate”. and reproductive rights; sustainable development and the environment; and According to Cohen, Dhlakama “was business and flow of illicit capital in suspicious of relations between Western Africa. countries and the Frelimo government”.

According to Salomao Muchanga, At that meeting, Cohen recalled Arap president of the association, “We will Moi as saying that the reputation of also adopt an action plan at the end of Renamo in the West was “extremely the conference on democracy and good negative”, due to its alleged violations of governance, which will be connected to human rights, and consequently, gaining various African initiatives on the matter”. support for the negotiations would not be easy. Source: Jornal Notícias But Arap Moi dismissed the charges Former US official reveals Mugabe’s against Dhlakama, saying that he was key role convincing Dhlakama to an evangelical Christian. negotiate peace He writes: “I was then certain of what According to the novel The Mind of the our conduct towards Dhlakama would African Strongmen: Conversations with be”. Dictators, Statesmen and Father Figures, the President of Zimbabwe, From then on, the former Kenyan Robert Mugabe, and the former minister of foreign affairs Bethwel president of Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi, Kipalagat was “our connection”, claims both played a key role in convincing Cohen. Afonso Dhlakama to negotiate a peace agreement with the Mozambican According to the former US diplomat, government in 1992. the discreet assistance from Arap Moi and Kipalagat was “essential” for This revelation is penned by former US organising meetings in Malawi, a Assistant Secretary of State for African country that South Africa used as a Affairs, Herman Cohen, according to transit base for weapons and logistics sent to Renamo.

“In these meetings, I managed to “I asked President Mugabe to carry out convince Dhlakama that we were going this task because he and Dhlakama are to work for negotiations in which of the same ethnic group, the Shona”, everyone would gain and which would Cohen writes, adding that “President lead to elections in Mozambique”, he Mugabe succeeded where many of us writes. had failed”.

However, in another chapter of his book, Cohen also reveals in his book that the Cohen says that these secret meetings Zimbabwean secret police foiled an in Malawi “never managed to fully attempt by then Iraqi leader Saddam persuade him [Dhlakama] to accept the Hussein’s agents to assassinate the negotiations and enter political life”. American ambassador in Harare.

Dhlakama had “a great paranoia and Zimbabwe transported the seized Iraqi expected to be killed by the agents to Cyprus to be interrogated by Mozambican military should he enter the Americans, writes Cohen, whose political life”. book was launched earlier this year in the United States. “The person who managed to convince Dhlakama was President Robert Source: VOA Português Mugabe”, says Cohen.

SECURITY

Dhlakama announces new police put our men in the police, but because force and the creation of a second the police belongs to Frelimo and military headquarters in Milange Frelimo does not want us in, we are going to create our own police”. On Monday 7 September, at a rally in Milange (Zambézia Province) held in The Renamo leader said that this celebration of “Victory Day”, Renamo measure was also in response to the leader, Afonso Dhlakama, announced failure to implement the 1992 Rome that his party’s police force will shortly Agreement, which was intended to become operational. establish unified police and military structures at the end of the 16-year civil Dhlakama declared that this move is in war, integrated by the state military and response to Frelimo’s breach of the the Renamo guerrillas. Dhlakama Agreement on the Cessation of Military assured the crowd that this new police Hostilities, specifically Frelimo’s refusal force, whose mission is to ensure the to reintegrate Renamo men into the safety of Renamo leaders in the six country’s defence and security forces. autonomous provinces that the movement insists on creating in the “Within weeks we will form our Police of central and northern provinces, will be the Republic of Mozambique”, said made up of demobilised ex-fighters and Dhlakama, adding that: “we wanted to active soldiers.

Dhlakama also announced the creation Wednesday a FIR contingent set up of a second military headquarters in roadblocks along the main road in Milange (216 kilometres from Nicoadala in an attempt to prevent the Morrumbala, in Zambézia Province) – Renamo motorcade from entering the almost a week after establishing a area. Renamo military headquarters in Morrumbala – which will also be used to “I am an adult, I am a general, am a train police agents. leader and I have a lot of experience. If I wanted to respond to these The Renamo leader clarified that the provocations, they would be dead. In creation of the new police force and Nicoadala, Renamo could have killed military barracks “are not meant to more than 40 armed FIR agents on attack or threaten war against Frelimo”, Wednesday”, said Dhlakama, who but to defend the people from the proclaimed that fresh clashes in Tete marginalisation by government forces Province over the past week left 80 complying with the orders of the ruling government troops dead as FADM party. forces attempted to take control of a Renamo base in Mucombedzi. Source: Folha de Maputo/VOA Português According to Dhlakama, no Renamo casualties were reported. Dhlakama accuses government of derailing his rallies Dhlakama told the crowd that he hopes that President Filipe Nyusi will apologise Renamo leader, Afonso Dhlakama, has for his arrogance and implement the two accused the government of “persecution existing peace agreements. “The current and provocation” and of trying to derail conditions in which we live is the result Renamo rallies in the centre of the of the lack of compliance with the country. agreements of Rome (1992) and the Cessation of Military Hostilities (2014). “It is a good thing that we reject war. When we were negotiating we already There are many provocations, most of anticipated that the breach of the them carried out by the anti-riot police”, agreements would bring problems. The said Dhlakama during a rally in Chimoio danger is that the problems that should (Manica Province) on Wednesday 9 have stopped in 1992 continue today, as September. if we had not signed anything”, argued According to Dhlakama, the presence of Dhlakama. 15 Rapid Intervention Force (FIR) Source: Folha de Maputo agents at a rally in Milange (Zambézia Province) forced the party to relocate FADM soldiers accused of excesses the gathering to its headquarters. He and rape in Gorongosa claimed that on Tuesday 8 September, the Police of the Republic of According to unconfirmed reports, Mozambique (PRM) cordoned off the FADM personnel are being accused of Mocuba sports field, preventing his party raping women and children in and supporters access to the area. Gorongosa (Sofala Province). Additionally, Dhlakama claims that on

The accusations of sexual abuse are Banana of behaving with excess. Often, being levelled at government soldiers by he says, the state military drink and do the population of Casa-Banana, in an not pay the bills, threatening anybody area garrisoned by government forces who demands payment with since the outbreak of the political and imprisonment or death. military conflict with Renamo in 2013. The people say they have no-one to turn A year after the Agreement on the to. Cessation of Military Hostilities was signed (on 5 September 2014), armed Source: VOA News Renamo men and FADM soldiers continue to hold positions in the region, War veterans appeal to Dhlakama to which is largely affected by the conflict. attend meeting with President Nyusi

“Women go to the river to bathe and the The veterans of the national liberation military go there (where the rapes struggle, residing in Inhambane usually occur)”, says Feliz Candeado, Province, have publically called for who adds that the forces stationed at Renamo leader, Afonso Dhlakama, to the crossroads between Piro and Casa- abandon his thirst for power and instead Banana have been committing participate in dialogue in order to avoid excesses. further bloodshed.

Residents complain that the military, Sebastian Dengo and Januário mostly wearing uniforms of the FIR, Nungoma accuse Dhlakama of enter communities, commit excesses purposefully creating situations which and threaten to torture or kill whoever necessitate the use of force on the part responds to them or to their actions. of the government, referring to the recent attacks on defenceless citizens. “They are military from the government. When they come in (to the villages) they Source: Folha de Maputo start to take revenge and people are Over 54 million square meters scared. We are not at peace. If cleared of land mines in six years challenged, they run to the barracks where they take up arms and they want Demining processes in Mozambique are to kill”, says Candeado. officially coming to a close. During the period from 2008 to 2014 an area in Candeado also claims that: “When they excess of 54 million square metres was go to the rivers they do not ask successfully cleared of land mines. permission and the women usually bathe naked and that is when they take On Tuesday 8 September, the weekly advantage of the situation”, he says, meeting of the Council of Ministers adding that: “Many times they rape our (Cabinet) discussed the implementation daughters”. of the National Mine Action Plan (PNA). Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Baltazar Pita, another resident of Casa- government spokesperson, deputy Banana, accused the men positioned at health minister Mouzinho Saíde, said the crossroads between Piro and Casa-

that the clearance occurred in 3,201 There is no evidence that either side separate areas, where the fear of mines used land mines in the most recent had prevented local people from conflict, concentrated in Sofala Province undertaking economic and social during 2013-2014. activities. Mozambique is a signatory of the Deputy Minister Saíde said that Ottawa Convention on the prohibition demining over this period had resulted and destruction of anti-personnel land in the destruction of 85,892 anti- mines. Mozambique joined the personnel mines, 133 anti-tank mines, Convention in 1999, and had 10 years 5,148 other items of unexploded to complete the demining of the entire ordnance, and 83,792 pieces of country. This proved impossible, and so ammunition of various calibres. Mozambique requested, and was granted, a five-year extension, bringing The overall cost of demining over the six the deadline forward to 2014. year period was estimated at approximately US$220 million, financed By the end of 2014, eight provinces had by the Mozambican government and its been declared free of land mines – international partners. Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula in the north, Maputo, Gaza and Land mines had been planted during Inhambane in the south, and Tete and three conflicts – during the colonial war Zambézia in the centre of the country. prior to Mozambican independence in They were joined by Sofala in August 1975, during the incursions by the this year, leaving Manica, also in the Rhodesian armed forces in the late central region, as the only province that 1970s, and during the 16-year war that has not yet been declared land mine ended with the peace agreement signed free. in October 1992. Source: Agencia de Informacao de Moçambique

CRIME

MAP 1: KIDNAPPING INCIDENTS IN CENTRAL MAPUTO 2014 & 2015

GRAPH 2: REPORTED KIDNAPPINGS PER YEAR

35 31 30 30

20 16 14 15

0 2011/2012 2013 2014 2015

GRAPH 3: TIME OF KIDNAPPINGS 2014 & 2015

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 00:01 - 04:00 04:01 - 08:00 08:01 - 12:00 12:01 - 16:00 16:01 - 20:00 20:01 - 00:00

Note: This graph excludes kidnappings in which the time of the kidnapping was not reported

GRAPH 4: KIDNAPPINGS PER GENDER / AGE-GROUP 2014 & 2015

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 <18 19-36 37-54 55-72 >73

Male Female

*Please note: the data present in the graphs and maps is not 100% accurate owing to the high number of unreported cases and irregularities in the documentation of these events. This graph illustrates the successful kidnapping incidents ONLY and not attempted/aborted/intercepted kidnappings.

PRM neutralise sugar thieves in Gaza According to unconfirmed reports, a family member of the deceased During the course of the week 28 facilitated the theft by providing the August to 4 September, the PRM three detainees with information arrested four individuals in regarding the grave in exchange for Chicualacuala district (Gaza Province) money. in connection with the theft of nine bags of sugar, totalling 562 kilograms, from Source: @Verdade the local CFM station. PRM neutralise armed gang in Of the four detainees, two are private Chimoio security guards employed by G4S. The two guards, who are believed to have During the course of the week 28 facilitated the theft, were posted at the August to 4 September, the PRM train station at the time. arrested four gang members and recovered a pistol, eight rounds of The sugar was on route from Zimbabwe ammunition and two Toyota’s during an to Maputo when it was intercepted and operation in Chimoio (Manica Province). stolen. According to the police, the four men PRM officers on routine patrol caught are responsible for a number of armed the two accomplices red-handed and robberies in the area. the two security guards were arrested following an investigation. Three of the detainees are being kept in holding cells, while the fourth gang Source: Jornal Notícias member is receiving medical treatment, after he was shot in the leg whilst PRM arrest three grave robbers in attempting to evade arrest. Malema Source: O País During the course of the week 28 August to 4 September, the PRM Mozambican man arrested in Malawi arrested three Mozambicans in the on charges of conspiracy to traffic Malema district (Nampula Province) on children charges of grave robbing. The Malawian Police in Machinga According to the information received, district recently arrested a 29-year-old the three men were found to be in Mozambican national amidst allegations possession of human bones at the time that he planned to traffic two children of the arrest. The human remains are and a young man from Malawi to believed to have been stolen from the Mozambique. grave of an albino, and the PRM are of the opinion that the men acquired the According to police reports, the suspect bones with the intention of selling them was identified as Christopher Rafael in Malawi. from Mandimba district (Niassa Province).

The Malawian police said that the The police arrested both Dzonzi and suspect was arrested following a tip-off Lomao shortly after a case was opened. from UNECO’s Community based The police are still searching for the educators in Machinga. third assailant.

According to the police, Rafael During sentencing procedures the two approached his victims claiming to be defendants pleaded for leniency on the the owner of a tobacco farm in grounds that they are first time offenders Mozambique. Rafael subsequently and bread winners. The court refused offered his victims employment at his and sentenced them to 14 years farm and arranged for them to return imprisonment each. with him to Mozambique. Both Dzonzi and Lomao hail from Rafael, who is currently in police Mthawira village in Majawa, Villa custody in Nselema, has been charged Ulongwe, Mozambique. with two counts of human trafficking and illegal entry into Malawi. Source: The Maravi Post

Source: Malawi 24 Minor raped in Maputo

Two Mozambicans sentenced to jail During the early hours of Monday 7 in Malawi for raping a minor September, 14-year-old J. Lúcia was raped by an unknown number of men in On Thursday 3 September, the Ntcheu the city of Maputo. First Grade Magistrate in Malawi sentenced two Mozambican nationals to The minor was subsequently admitted to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour the Gynaecology Department of the for gang raping a 12-year-old girl. Jose Macamo General Hospital in the Zimpeto neighbourhood. The spokesperson for the local police, Hastings Chigalu, told reporters that the The case was referred to the PRM for two men (identified as 25-year-old due process. Thomoson Dzonzi and 21-year-old Chimwemwe Lomao) were found guilty Source: Folha de Maputo (along with a third accomplice who PRM announce “encouraging clues” remains at large) of gang raping the 12- in Machava murder case year-old girl on 26 July 2015. The offense took place at approximately On Tuesday 8 September, the PRM 18:00hrs in the Mapira village. announced that it is in possession of “encouraging clues” which could The victim, who has not been named, potentially lead to the identification and was walking to her cousin’s house when apprehension of those responsible for she was accosted and attacked by the the murder of journalist Paulo Machava. three men. She was subsequently referred to the Ntcheu District Hospital “The activities conducted so far are where medical professionals confirmed encouraging as we have uncovered that she had in fact been raped. certain clues and important information.

We believe that, based on this The victim, identified as 33-year-old information and the possible leads, we Rosário Rodrigues, was lured out of the may achieve success and bring clarity to city of Nampula with the promise of this case”, said Inácio Dina, spokesman employment. for the General Command of the police. “They enticed me and when we got to Source: Folha de Maputo the place they said they were waiting for a boss who wanted to buy my hair. I Five illegal immigrants held in was surprised, because I didn’t know Nampula that hair could be sold, and I was afraid I was going to be killed”, said Rodrigues. On Tuesday 8 September, the PRM of Nampula Province arrested five foreign According to the three detainees, they nationals (two Nigerians, an Ethiopian, a planned to sell the victim’s hair to a Somali and a Malawian) for illegally Tanzanian national for MT450,000. residing within the country. The detainees were arrested following The five illegal immigrants were an anonymous tip-off. During the arrests detained in Meconta district, where they a fourth suspect managed to evade were awaiting transport to the arrest and the PRM are actively seeking Montepuez district of Cabo Delgado his whereabouts. Province, with the intention of seeking employment in the mining sector. According to the three detainees, the victim’s family orchestrated the The five detainees were found to be in abduction owing to financial problems. possession of four kilograms of precious stones, including tourmaline and a ruby, One of the detainees, Roque Mualinda, and an unspecified amount of money. claims that Rodrigues’ mother and brother approached them and asked Two of the five detainees were found to them to abduct the victim and to be in possession of fake documents. exchange his hair for money, which was to be divided between the four The illegal immigrants will be repatriated abductors and the two family members. shortly following an in-depth investigation. According to Mualinda his share of the pay-out was MT50,000. Source: @Verdade The family strongly deny their Three locals arrested on charges of involvement in the kidnapping. They kidnapping an albino in Nampula said that, when they noticed that On Wednesday 9 September, three Rodrigues was missing, they went to the individuals were arrested by the PRM of police since they were well aware of the Nampula Province on charges of kidnappings and murders of albinos that kidnapping an albino with the intention have occurred in Nampula. of selling his hair. So far this year seven albinos have been reported missing in Nampula. This

phenomenon originated from Tanzania, Township where she posed as a job where at least 76 albinos have been seeker. murdered since 2000. “We can confirm that three people have Source: O País/Agencia de Informacao de been arrested. The nanny was located Moçambique in South Africa while the other two, who were harbouring the child, were arrested South African child kidnapped by by Mozambican officials in Maputo”, Mozambican nanny rescued in Mulaudzi said. Machava “The [nanny] was located and arrested The South African toddler (identified as at premises where she posed as a job Perfect Gift Msesiwe) who was allegedly seeker. kidnapped by her nanny and whisked off to Mozambique pending the payment of “She confessed that she had committed a ZAR500,000 ransom, was reunited the offence (kidnapping) and clues to with her parents on Thursday 10 the whereabouts of the child in question September. surfaced”.

The three-year-old child was abducted The woman, who cannot be named until from her home in East London on 4 she has been asked to plead, has been August by the family’s domestic charged with extortion, for being in the worker/nanny, who is a Mozambican country illegally, kidnapping and human national. The family subsequently trafficking. received a ransom demand of ZAR500,000 in exchange for the child’s She made a brief court appearance in freedom. Following negotiations, the the Vosloorus Magistrate’s Court on ransom was reduced to ZAR300,000. Monday 7 September, and is expected to appear in the Mdantsane Magistrate’s South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Court next Tuesday, 15 September. Crime Investigation (DPCI), in partnership with the PRM and the On Monday 7 September, South African International Criminal Police authorities met with Mozambican police Organisation (Interpol), arrested three officers at the Lebombo Border Post and people linked to the case during the the girl was handed over. course of the week 28 August to 4 September. During the ordeal, the child was held in a house belonging to the nanny’s Those arrested include the nanny, who relatives in the neighbourhood of was arrested in Gauteng (South Africa), Machava-Socimol (Matola). and two relatives who were apprehended in Matola (Maputo). The two accomplices (identified as the nanny’s uncle and cousin) claim that Hawks national spokesperson Brigadier they did not know that the child had Hangwani Mulaudzi confirmed the been abducted, and believed she was arrest, revealing that the nanny was the kidnapper’s daughter. arrested in Gauteng’s Daveyton

The child’s mother (Zolelwa) is a The drugs were hidden in bags of grain municipal official in Mdantsane, while and transported in a truck on route to her father (Siyabonga) works at a local Nampula Province, where it was bank. scheduled for distribution.

The 32-year-old nanny allegedly The owner of the truck, Acabito disappeared with the child just three Cachote, told the police that he had weeks after being hired. purchased the marijuana in the district of Muidumbe for MT1,000 per bag. The South African Police Service (SAPS) are unable to release all the Cachote was arrested along with an details regarding the circumstances accomplice who attempted to bribe a surrounding the kidnapping due to the police officer with MT18,000 in sensitive nature of the investigation. exchange for Cachote’s release.

The SAPS have since issued a stern Source: O País warning to parents, emphasising the need to check identification documents PRM concerned with the high levels and do background checks on domestic of robbery and theft in Maputo workers, especially those meant to look after children. The PRM of Maputo City have expressed concern over the growing Source: Dispatch/Agencia de Informacao de number of reported cases of theft and Moçambique/News24 robbery in the capital.

PRM recover weapons allegedly used This is according to the commander of by kidnappers in Maputo the PRM in Maputo, Bernardino Rafael, who spoke during a meeting with district The PRM of Maputo recently recovered councillors, secretaries and community four firearms that were allegedly used policing members, held on Saturday 5 by a kidnap gang in the commission of September. their crimes. According to Bernardino, robbery and In addition to the four firearms (three theft are the two most common types of pistols and an AK-47), the police crime in Maputo. However, he arrested two individuals who are maintained that, for the most part, crime believed to be members of the gang. is under control in the capital.

Source: Folha de Maputo According to data presented during the meeting, in the first six months of the PRM seize 500 kilograms of year approximately 5,980 criminal cases marijuana in Cabo Delgado were recorded in Maputo, compared to 5,797 cases during the same period of The PRM recently seized approximately 2014. 500 kilograms of marijuana (commonly known as ‘soruma’) in Chiúre (Cabo Source: Miramar Delgado Province).

WILDLIFE PRESERVATION

Mozambican authorities investigate The suspect acquired the turtles from timber trafficking through Beira port the Ilha de Ponta Caldeira nesting area, which forms part of the Primeiras e Authorities in Mozambique are Segundas archipelago environmental investigating the illegal export of timber protection area. He was caught red- to China following the discovery of 70 handed and was immediately detained. containers of a wood, known as chanate, which were shipped from the The arrest was made possible with the port of Beira without authorisation. assistance of a Navy unit of the FADM, which was on patrol in the Indian Ocean The investigation is being conducted by at the time. the Provincial Office for Combating Corruption in Sofala, in co-ordination Government officials in Moma said that with the Mozambican Tax Authority the man (whose identity has not been (AT). revealed) could potentially lead the police to a group of individuals notorious According to a report published by the for catching turtles and selling them in World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in July, Nacala-Porto. approximately 90% of the logs harvested in Mozambique end up in According to Moma administrator, China. Data from the WWF indicates Araújo Momade, the accused confessed that illegal timber exports to China cost to operating in collaboration with 20 Mozambique US$102 million in 2013. other fishermen, with the latter Additionally, while Mozambique reported responsible for capturing the animals. official timber exports to China of 54,000 cubic meters in 2013, the Asian country Most of the islands in the environmental reported imports of 346,000 cubic protection area, set up by the meters. government in November 2012, are uninhabited. This aids the illegal hunting Illegal exporters can generate a profit of of turtles, whose meat is sought after on US$2,340 from each container of timber the black-market, especially in urban sent to China by avoiding customs centres. duties and forestry licenses, compared with US$530 for a legal consignment. According to unconfirmed reports, shark fishing is also a popular practice in the Source: Notícias/Bloomberg/O País area, with the fins being sold for exorbitant prices on the black market. Sea turtle poacher caught red handed in Ponta Caldeira Island Citizens of Chinese origin living in Nampula allegedly buy shark fins for up A man caught in possession of six live to MT2,000 (roughly US$50) per kilo for turtles was recently arrested by the subsequent illegal export to Asian PRM in Moma (Nampula Province). countries.

Recently, customs authorities in The police subsequently radioed ahead Nampula thwarted an attempted illegal to the next checkpoint. Once again the shark fin export bid when they caught poachers ignored the order to stop, but two citizens of Chinese nationality at the this time the police opened fire. One of airport with the fin concealed within their the poachers was shot, but survived. suitcase. Upon searching the vehicle, the police found a firearm typically used by Source: Notícias poachers.

Three poaching gangs clash with the On Saturday 5 September, a group of police in Gaza seven poachers was ambushed by a joint force of Mozambican and South During the course of the weekend 4 to 6 African police. Three of the poachers September, the PRM neutralised three were arrested, but the other four poaching gangs in three separate managed to escape. clashes in Gaza Province. In a third operation, on Sunday, also According to reports, the poachers had between the police forces of the two been operating within the Limpopo countries, two poachers were arrested, National Park and within South Africa’s while a third managed to escape. Kruger National Park. In what appears to be a separate The three successful operations are incident, a suspected poacher (identified attributed to the work of the recently as 34-year-old Winasse Mathevui) was established police unit for the protection shot and killed in a shootout with the of natural resources and the police in the Limpopo National Park environment, and to co-ordination during the course of the week 28 August between the police, other government to 4 September. institutions and the authorities of neighbouring countries. According to the report, during a routine patrol the police unit stumbled upon two According to a source in the National men who were walking through the park. Administration of Conservation Areas The men immediately shot at the police, (ANAC), the poaching gangs clashed who responded by returning fire. with the police on three successive days Mathevui was shot in the abdomen and – Friday, Saturday and Sunday – inside was evacuated to the nearest hospital the Limpopo National Park. where he later died from his wounds. Mathevui’s accomplice managed to The first group, consisting of four evade arrest. poachers, was intercepted on Friday night, 4 September, at a police According to police sources, the two checkpoint. Despite the fact that the men entered into the park via the Kruger police waved the vehicle down, ordering National Park, where it is believed that it to stop, the poachers fled; driving they had been hunting for rhinos. It has through the checkpoint. not yet been established as to whether or not their hunting expedition in the neighbouring park had been successful.

Following the shootout, the PRM Mpumalanga – 193 inside the park, and discovered a Mauser rifle (CZ 550), an 49 outside the park from July 2014 to additional (unspecified) rifle and July this year. ammunition hidden on Mathevui’s person. Officers seized 57 rhino horns and 117 firearms during the operations inside the Before he died, Mathevui confessed to park during said period. owning the two guns. There are currently 112 cases on the According to reports, the police are still court roll in Mpumalanga, with 212 searching for the second suspect who is defendants (of which 130 are South known to live in Massingir. Africans, 80 are Mozambicans and two are Zimbabwean nationals). Charges Source: @Verdade/Jornal Notícias/Agencia ranged from illegal hunting to de Informacao de Moçambique trespassing.

Mozambicans won’t extradite In Limpopo, police officers attended to poachers 26 incidents inside the KNP and 60 outside the park from December 2014 to On Wednesday 9 September, South July this year. 15 suspects were nabbed African MPs heard that the Mozambican inside the park, and 64 outside. authorities are reluctant to extradite its citizens, who are suspected of poaching During the operations, 49 rhino horns rhinos in the Kruger National Park were seized along with 19 firearms and (KNP), to South Africa. 10 vehicles.

“If the suspect is arrested in South There are currently three cases of illegal Africa, we will try that suspect. The hunting on the court roll, concerning four issue is once a suspect is known in defendants (one South African and Mozambique, they don’t want to three Mozambicans). extradite their citizens”, said SAPS head of detectives Lieutenant General Vinesh A further 56 suspects face charges of Moonoo. conspiracy to commit a crime of rhino poaching in the province (of which 22 “They blame us for killing their citizens. are South Africans, 29 are They say the rhinos are more valuable Mozambicans, one is a Botswana [to us] than their citizens. I explain it’s national, and one is a Zimbabwean). not about killing their citizens … it’s only when our members’ lives are in danger”. Source: Independent Online

Moonoo and other members of the Reduction in elephant poaching in SAPS top brass briefed Parliament’s Tete Province portfolio committee on police efforts to curb rhino poaching in the KNP. According to reports, the number of elephants poached for their ivory in Tete The KNP rhino task team attended to Province decreased during the course of 882 scenes linked to rhino poaching in this year. The report suggests that a

total of eight elephants were poached eight of the 12 were poisoned during during the first six months of 2015, 2014. compared with 12 during the same period of 2014. The authorities say that poisoning has a devastating effect on the environment The elephants were killed in the as a whole, especially on the protected areas of the Moatize district, surrounding communities who often Chiuta, Chifunde, Marávia, Macanga steal the meat for consumption. and Zumbo. According to the local authorities, during According to authorities in the area, the first six months of the year elephant poachers typically resort to approximately 43 poachers were poisoning in a bid to attain the animal’s arrested in the area, of which 39 are tusks. Mozambican nationals and four are Zimbabwean nationals. Of the eight pachyderms killed in the area this year, five were poisoned, while Source: Folha de Maputo

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Dragões Segurança employees of go brought under control as a result of on strike in Nampula mediation efforts that were carried out by the labour authorities, through the During the course of the week 4 to 11 provincial Centre for Labour Mediation September, employees of the security and Arbitration (Cemal) and the Labour company, Dragões Segurança, engaged Inspectorate (IGT). in a one-day strike in the port city of Nacala (Nampula Province). 270 employees of Dragões Segurança decided to embark on a strike as a The strike action resulted from what result of lack of payment, despite the employees called “work related stress”. fact that several attempts were made to resolve the situation peacefully. According to a statement from the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Labour authorities considered that the Social Security, the situation was claims were legitimate, and engaged in

peaceful talks with the workers in order form part of the organisation of the to find a diplomatic resolution to the market, particularly in the component problem. The negations resulted in the training. Their labour recruitment payment of salaries dating back to 2013, policies should follow the targets set by and the company promised workers that the government and the market the payment of salaries for the years demand. 2014 and 2015 will be made by Monday 14 September. As a result of the “The participation of this sector in all solutions presented and the stages of implementing the country’s commitment made by Dragões employment policies is indispensable”, Segurança’s management team in the said Deputy Minister Petersburgo. presence of the labour authorities, the strike was called off. He said that he was impressed with the work carried out by CONTACT in co- The Dragões Segurança has a total of ordination with INEFP, and urged both 279 workers in Nacala-Porto. The IGT in organisations to intensify their Nampula recently fined Dragões partnership. He noted that some of the Segurança for breaching the jobs declared by CONTACT are not employment and labour law. registered by the INEFP, despite the fact that it is responsible for labour Source: Folha de Maputo market statistics.

Government hopes for 300,000 new Deputy Minister Petersburgo believes jobs this year that proper co-ordination between the government and other actors in the The government is hopeful that roughly labour market could play an important 300,000 new jobs will be created role in implementing the government’s throughout the country by the end of this Five-Year Programme for the 2015- year. 2019 period. He hopes that such co- ordination will provide accurate and up- This is according to the deputy labour to-date statistical data, which will prove minister, Oswaldo Petersburgo who was useful to investors. speaking on Thursday 3 September, during a visit to the labour recruitment Source: Agencia de Informacao de agency CONTACT – part of the Moçambique government’s programme to reorganise the labour market. Licensed by the President Nyusi launches rotavirus Labour Ministry, via the National vaccination campaign Institute of Employment and Professional Training (INEFP), private On Friday 4 September, President Filipe recruitment agencies are supposed to Nyusi urged all citizens to actively work closely with the government to participate in the national vaccination ensure that companies’ labour needs campaign against rotavirus, which is are met. aimed at reducing diarrhoea-related deaths amongst young children. According to Deputy Minister Petersburgo, the recruitment agencies

Presiding over the launch of the vaccine children. According to the release, the in Maputo, President Nyusi said success introduction of this vaccine, “is a key will depend on the involvement of opportunity, not only to strengthen the parents, siblings and even neighbours of routine vaccination system, but also to the target children, who must be made strengthen the strategies to prevent aware of the fact that this vaccine can diarrhoea as a tool in the primary prevent many deaths. prevention of childhood deaths”.

According to the President, despite Source: Agencia de Informacao de advances in health care in recent years, Moçambique the rates of vaccination against childhood diseases remain disturbingly Mozambique has 300,000 traditional low in some parts of the country. The medicinal practitioners – 120,000 not general level of vaccination is at its registered lowest (47%) in Zambézia Province, while in Tete and Cabo Delgado only 58 Mozambique is thought to have and 59% of children under the age of approximately 300,000 traditional five are vaccinated. medicinal practitioners, of which roughly 120,000 are not registered with the The greatest vaccination rate, 88%, is in Institute of Traditional Medicine. Maputo Province, with Maputo city lagging somewhat behind on 77%. The Ministry of Health intends to register These routine vaccinations are against traditional healers and regulate their diseases such as polio, measles, activity in an attempt to put an end to tuberculosis, diphtheria and whooping false promises of miracles in healing cough. Now the rotavirus vaccine has diseases such as HIV/AIDS. been added to the list. According to In Mozambique, approximately 70% of President Nyusi, the reduction in the the population resorts to traditional level of potentially fatal childhood medicine for the treatment of ailments of diseases is key to economic and social the body, mind and soul. In addition to development which can only be attained the collective beliefs, the appeal of with good health care. traditional medicine is further reinforced “Children are our hope”, the President by poor health service coverage, declared, “and we exist because we particularly in rural areas. were once children, and somebody Source: O País looked after us, fed us and protected us. We also need to protect the children Families of Matola victims to find who are the future of the nation”. closure

In a press release, the United Nations The families of those who were killed in representative in Mozambique praised Matola during what has come to be the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine known as the Matola Raid on 30 into the national vaccination January 1981, will finally find closure. programme, describing this as a clear demonstration of the government’s concern with the health of the country’s

The Matola Raid Monument and the Machel called for this day to be declared Interpretative Centre was unveiled in as the day of friendship between Maputo on Friday 11 September. The Mozambique and South Africa. The two programme commence at the neighbouring countries share strong Llhanguene Cemetery where President historical and fraternal ties dating back Filipe Nyusi and South African to the fight against colonialism and President, Jacob Zuma, laid a wreath at apartheid, states a presidential release. the grave site in memory of the struggle heroes who were killed during the raid. To date, adds the same source, “the two The two heads of state subsequently countries share strong economic ties interacted with survivors and the families and have formed strong historic and of the victims. strategic bilateral relations in the many areas of co-operation over the last two The wreath laying ceremony was decades. Key in this regard, was the followed by an official programme for decision in 2011 to elevate our the unveiling at the Matola Monument, structured bilateral mechanism to an led by President Zuma. On 30-31 annual Bi-National Commission”. January 1981, the South African Defence Force carried out a raid on President Zuma will be accompanied on ANC (African National Congress) his visit to Maputo by families of the houses in Matola. 16 South Africans and victims; the Minister of International one Portuguese national were Relations and Cooperation, Maite subsequently killed during the raid. Nkoana-Mashabane; the Minister of Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa; the The proposal to construct a memorial in Minister of Public Works, Thulas Nxesi; commemoration of the events of 1981 the Minister of Defence and Military was approved in 2008 and a sod-turning Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula ceremony was held in 2009. The and the deputy minister responsible for Monument and the Centre form part of military veterans, Kebby Maphatsoe. the South African government’s “effort to redress the historical imbalances in The release points out that: “during his heritage sites, and to promote social state visit to Mozambique in May 2015, cohesion and nation building”. They also President Zuma reiterated that the depth form part of the Liberation Heritage and extent of co-operation between the Route which preserves South Africa’s two countries was amplified by the liberation legacy. existence of over 60 bilateral agreements and Memoranda of The route “recognises the people, Understanding covering a wide range of communities, events and places which sectors including energy, transport, had a significant impact on our struggle trade and investment, agriculture, for liberation and also stimulate much environment, water, defence and needed economic development and job security, immigration, science and creation for South Africa and its technology, labour, communication, neighbouring countries”. tourism, arts and culture, sport, to mention but a few”. In 1982, on the first anniversary of the Matola raid, the late president Samora Source: SAnews.gov.za/The Presidency SA

MT80 million needed to assist the Speaking at the opening of the 13th population of drought-stricken Coordinating Council of the Ministry, Inhambane Minister Tonela said other relevant institutions that can help mitigate the The government of Inhambane requires effects of drought on food security approximately MT80 million to assist the include the National Directorate of 66,000 residents affected by drought in Industry and Trade and the Mozambican that region of the country. Cereal Institute.

Half of the required funds will be used to Another concern for the Ministry is the acquire nearly 50 tons of essential items approval of the technical standards for such as corn, beans, cooking oil and industrial products and the quality sugar. The remaining funds have been certification thereof. The training of earmarked for the construction and small and medium-sized enterprises, to rehabilitation of boreholes and the small be revitalised by the Institute for water supply systems and tanks. Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (IPEME), in partnership with The situation has been described as the Association of Accountants and “critical” in areas such as Funhalouro, Auditors of Mozambique, is another Mabote, Govuro, Panda, Massinga, priority. Vilankulo and Inhassoro. “We are pleased to see that from the Source: Folha de Maputo actions outlined for this year, despite the lapse of time between now and the end Drought in Gaza and Inhambane: of the financial year, amongst those that government seeks sustainable have been implemented, there’s been solutions clear signs of success”, said the Obtaining sustainable solutions to minister. According to Minister Tonela, combat the effects of the drought the most notable achievement is the affecting some districts of the provinces conclusion of the CTA’s public-private of Gaza and Inhambane, in particular, dialogue model, which is based on is proving to be a challenge for the mutual accountability between the Ministry of Industry and Trade. government and the association with actions aimed at improving the business It is estimated that more than 130, 000 environment. people in the south are experiencing food insecurity as a result of the poor The Coordinating Council is a forum that harvests and deficiencies in the integrates the most senior executives of distribution network. The Minister of the Ministry in order to carry out a sector Industry and Commerce, Ernesto Max performance review during the course of Tonela, spoke of the need for increased the year and outline actions to be agricultural trade, giving priority to links undertaken within the next twelve between centres of production and the months. market. Source: Jornal Notícias

Residents refuse to leave poorly We are appealing to people to leave of constructed homes in flood-prone their own free will”. area of Matola The rail director of CFM-South, Augusto Those who have built flimsy homes on a Abudo, also urged the residents to flood-prone strip of land adjacent to the leave, warning that they ran serious toll gate on the Maputo-South Africa risks due to the proximity of the railway. motorway are ignoring calls by the Matola City Council for them to move. Source: Agencia de Informacao de Moçambique The area is regarded as dangerous, and on Saturday 5 September, the Council Mozambique ranked the third worst gave the inhabitants an ultimatum to place in the world to grow old leave. Two days after the ultimatum was issued, reporters returned to the area According to the annual Global and found no indication that anyone AgeWatch Index, released to the public plans to move. The land, lying between on Wednesday 9 September, the toll gate and the Mulauze River, is Mozambique has been ranked the located along a railway and is reserved world's third worst place to grow old. Of a list of 96 countries, Mozambique was for use by the publicly owned CFM. The th area is a corridor for storm waters ranked 94 , followed by Malawi (95), flowing from several neighbourhoods, and Afghanistan (96). The list had to and the municipal authorities believe rule out 54 African countries due to the that it is not fit for human habitation. fact that there was not enough data to assess them. Although the inhabitants built their shacks illegally, they are now The Global AgeWatch Index measures demanding resettlement assistance the quality of life of the elderly across from the Council. Their spokesperson, four categories, namely: Evaristo Cossa, told reporters that they  Income security, consisting of want the authorities to provide them with indicators such as: pension alternative plots of land and building coverage, old age poverty rate, materials. relative welfare and gross It is unlikely that the Matola Council will national income (GNI) per capita; accept this demand. When the City  Health status, consisting of Councillor for Health, Social Welfare indicators such as: life and Civil Society, Paula Jacude, visited expectancy at 60, health life the area, she said that the residents expectancy at 60 and relative should leave unconditionally to end the psychological/mental wellbeing; drama they face every time it rains.

“Each one of you should go back to  Capability, consisting of where you were living before you came indicators such as: the and settled here”, she said. “These are employment rate of old people not adequate conditions for habitation. and educational attainment; and

 Enabling environment, consisting the situation of older African women, of indicators such as: social who “are often particularly poor because connections, physical safety, civic of discriminatory laws against them”. freedom and access to public transport. Mozambique’s rating:

Despite Mozambique “delivering a Mozambique ranks low in the Index with national policy on ageing in 2007, an overall position of 94. It ranks highest mainstreaming the care of older people in the income security domain (84 or in health and HIV, and including them in 22.8 out of 100), with a higher than many social protection laws, quality of average old age poverty rate for its life continues to lag behind, with the region (19.1%) and second lowest GNI country ranking low in most domains”, per capital (US$1,018). In terms of reads the report by Help Age. pension coverage, only 17.3% of people over the age of 65 receive a pension. According to the report, Mozambique does not have a consolidated universal The country ranks poorly in the health social pension system, and as a domain (94 or 18.9 out of 100), due to consequence thereof, the majority of the low levels of life expectancy at the age elderly do not receive a pension. The of 60 and healthy life expectancy at 60. prevalence of chronic diseases and HIV It ranks low within its region in the and AIDS is relatively high among older capability domain (94 or 4.5 out of 100), people in Mozambique, says Help Age. with the lowest regional rate of educational attainment among older This, “coupled with the limited people (1%), while 70.4% of the availability of medication and care, is population aged 55-64 are employed. worsening the situation for the country’s older population”. The report stresses Mozambique ranks lowest in the that, in Mozambique, “older people, enabling environment domain (96 or especially women, often do not feel safe 45.1 out of 100), due to low satisfaction due to accusations of witchcraft, with safety (31%), civic freedom (60%) financial abuse including land conflict, and poor levels of access to public and physical and sexual abuse”. transport (31%). In October the ‘Age Demands Action’ campaign will take The report also points out how older place in Mozambique. people in African countries “experience many hardships, with few able to access Please see www.helpage.org/global- basic services”. Despite the fact tha agewatch/population-ageing- “family ties remain strong”, the data/country-ageing- traditional support systems “are data/?country=Mozambique for the full changing” and older people “are often report. left with the responsibility of childcare without any formal support”. Source: Help Age

Additionally, the report claims that: “very few (elders) have pensions”, stressing END