Rex Tillerson, chief executive of the world’s largest oil company, ExxonMobil, flew into Maputo this week for a meeting with Mozambique’s president, raising expectations that a deal to buy part or Eni’s Rovuma Basin gas block is now close. Tillerson and Claudio Descalzi, his counterpart at Italian oil major, Eni, met with President Filipe Nyusi…...

Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi is due to visit IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in September. Photo © Timothy Haccius / Zitamar News