Mozambique’s petroleum sector authorities will launch a consultation with oil companies next month to gauge interest in a new round of exploration blocks, following the signing of exploration and production concession contracts (EPCCs) for the fifth round blocks which is due next week. Mozambique’s petroleum regulator, INP, plans to start the process of ‘nomination’ –...

The governor of Tete province, Paulo Auade, has urged the local community around a Chinese-controlled gold mine to collaborate with the mining company, in spite of the death of a mine worker and the discovery of illegal mining and other violations. Auade described the gold mine at Cassossole as an “oxygen cylinder” for the community,...

Around 3000 Mozambican refugees who fled to Malawi during violence between Frelimo and Renamo in 2016 are due to return to Mozambique by the end of this year, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  “We don’t expect to still have Mozambican refugees in Malawi in 2019,” UNHCR representative Hans Lunshof told...

UPDATE, 14 JUNE 2018: The police in Pemba said on Wednesday evening that reports of an armed attack on a supermarket in the town earlier that day were a false alarm. ——————————————– Police in the Mozambican city of Pemba say an armed attack on a shopping centre today is not related to a wave of terrorist...