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The sovereignty of elites

Complaints about a Rwandan takeover are motivated by greed and envy in the nepotistic security industry

Today’s front pages in Maputo. Photo © Faizal Chauque / Zitamar News

Good afternoon. A bad-tempered leader article in this week's issue of newspaper Canal de Moçambique leads this newsletter to return to the subject of Mozambican-Rwandan relations, or rather the public opinion around them. The paper seized upon a recent report, published in the British paper the Financial Times, about Isco Segurança, a company which is providing security at the site of the TotalEnergies-led gas project in Cabo Delgado province, and which is majority owned by a company controlled by Rwanda's governing party.

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