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MOZAMBIQUE TO JOIN AFRICA50 TO HAVE ACCESS OF INFRASTRUCTURAL FUNDING

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Mozambique is in the process of joining the Africa50 platform, to facilitate access to funding for infrastructure projects. Headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco, the Africa50 platform was established by the African Development Bank and African states with the aim of supporting and facilitating the development of infrastructure projects on the continent, by mobilizing public and private sector funding. The desire to join this financing mechanism was expressed in the Maputo daily “Notícias’ by a source in…

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JAPANESE GOVT. APPROVED US$7.4M FOR MOZAMBIQUE YOUTH PROJECT

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The Japanese government has disbursed US$ 7.4 million to support a project on youth empowerment and peace construction in cases of conflict in the northern Mozambican provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado. According to Maria Fornara, a representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), cited by the Maputo daily “Notícias’, the project will target 170,000 people “to strengthen educational competence among children and youth, especially in three areas: change in social behaviour, mobilization of…

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CONSTRUCTION OF BUS TERMINAL TO KICK-OFF IN CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE

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Valige Tauabo, Governor of the Province of Cabo Delgado, laid the first stone of a passenger bus terminal and a centre for the elderly in the district of Chiure. The construction of the bus terminal will proceed in two phases, the first of which will consist of the construction of the perimeter wall, porch, toilets and interior division for the movement of people, cargo vehicles, waiting places, boarding and disembarkation of passengers. Governor Tauabo said…

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EXPERTS SAYS LACK OF LAND PLANNING CAUSED FLOOD IN MOZAMBIQUE

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Experts on natural disasters and land planning say that “negligence” and “lack of land planning” aggravated the impact of floods in the Maputo region, but the high “intensity” of the rain increased the effect of the calamity. “We have not been preparing society and our institutions to deal with this type of extreme situation in the southern region,” said Luís Artur, engineer and disaster risk management specialist. The specialist pointed out that the authorities and…

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TRAIN WHISTLES AGAIN AFTER 37 YEARS WAIT ALONG MOZAMBIQUE-MALAWI RAILWAY

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Ports and Railways of Mozambique (CFM) has announced that it has successfully run the first official railway journey from Vila Nova da Fronteira in Mozambique to Malawi – a train transporting material for the reconstruction of the Malawian railway line. The cargo of cement, belonging to the Chinese Company CR20, which is responsible for rebuilding the line in the neighbouring country, left Porto da Beira. CR20 judges that most of the material used in the…

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HOW MOZAMBIQUE FHH NEEDS US$15M FOR HOUSING PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

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The Mozambican government’s Housing Promotion Fund (FFH), needs, in the next 18 months, one billion meticais (about 15.6 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate) for housing projects throughout the country. “In the second half of next year, the institution will start the construction of 160 apartments”, said the Chairperson of the FFH Board of Directors, Armindo Munguambe, quoted in Thursday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Notícias.” The apartments to be built, according to…

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CO-PARTNERSHIP SIGNED TO FINANCE REHABILITATION OF HYDROELECTRIC PLANT IN MOZAMBIQUE

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Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) and AFD signed a EUR100M non-sovereign concessional loan agreement to contribute to the financing of the plant’s 10-year rehabilitation program, the “Capex Vital”. This program, aimed at extending the life of the plant equipment by at least 25 years, includes the refurbishment of the power plant and the electrical substation. It will improve operational reliability, reduce forced outages and maintenance costs, and restore international standard performance levels. The loan is…

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PORT OF MAPUTO BEGINS MAINTENANCE IN MOZAMBIQUE

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The hopper dredger ‘Ilembe’, owned by the South African Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), has just arrived in the Mozambican capital to resume dredging in the Port of Maputo access channel, from which it is expected to remove 550,000 cubic meters of sediment. Ilembe is in Maputo to carry out maintenance dredging of the access channel to the ports of Maputo and Matola. The job, which will cover the areas of Polana, Xefina, and the…

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HOW GLOBAL ENERGY CRISIS COULD OPEN DOOR FOR MOZAMBIQUE

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The current world energy crisis is an opportunity for Mozambique and the African continent to increase exports of natural resources, the National Petroleum Institute (INP) advanced today in a conference on Energy Transition in Maputo. Mozambique has considerable potential in energy resources and, according to the INP, can become one of the main generators of clean energy in the wake of the worldwide energy crisis that we are currently witnessing. The entity charged with the…

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BRIDGE OVER NATETE RIVER REOPENS IN MOZAMBIQUE

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The land connection between the provinces of Nampula and Niassa was restored as motorists were again able to transport goods and people safely over the Natete river, thanks to the intervention of various sectors in the region. This takes place only four days after Minister of Public Works Carlos Mesquita pledged that the Natete bridge would reopen soon. Minister Mesquita said the non-observance of the weight limits by transporters constituted the biggest challenge for the…

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PREQUALIFICATION CONCLUDED ON MPHANDA NKUWA HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT IN MOZAMBIQUE

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Mozambique concluded the prequalification of seven potential investors for the development of the Mphanda Nkuwa Hydroelectric Project (MNK), a 4.5-billion-U.S. dollar project on the Zambezi River in the western province of Tete. The announcement was made at the end of an investors’ conference in Maputo, the capital city, where the director-general of the project’s implementation office Carlos Yum said that in the next two days the pre-qualified bidders, including two individual companies and five large…

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MOZAMBIQUE TO INTRODUCE EXPRESS TRAIN TO FACILITATE THE MOBILITY OF PEOPLE AND GOODS

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The Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Mozambique’s publicly-owned ports and rail company (CFM), Miguel Matabele, has announced the introduction of an express train to South Africa and Eswatini, to facilitate the mobility of people and goods. Matabele made this announcement on Saturday, when the Mozambican Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, was visiting the CFM stand at the Maputo International Trade Fair (FACIM). Maleiane welcomed the initiative since the project will contribute to solving the…

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MOZAMBIQUE PARLIAMENT SAYS MEGA PROJECT TO BENEFIT COMMUNITY

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The chairperson of the Planning and Budget Commission (CPO) of the Mozambican Parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, António Niquice, argued that the revenue from mega-projects must serve to fight regional inequalities and promote peace and national unity. He was speaking at the opening of a meeting of the High-Level Working Group of Parliamentary Budget Committees of the Portuguese-speaking African Countries and East Timor (PALOP-TL), a three-day event that began on Monday in Maputo. “Our…

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UK’s MacDONALD TO SUPPORT ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE IN MOZAMBIQUE

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The British company Mott MacDonald has announced that it will be supporting the Mozambican government’s efforts to improve the country’s road network and other infrastructure. The funding for this assistance will come from the United States foreign aid agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), which will provide US$4.3 million over five years as part of its “Transportation and Vertical Structures Practice in Africa” project. According to Mott MacDonald, economic growth in Mozambique has been restricted…

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MOZAMBIQUE’s EDM AWARD CONSTRUCTION OF INTERCONNECTION POWERLINE

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Mozambique’s publicly-owned electricity company, Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), has awarded the construction of the interconnection power line with neighboring Malawi to “Lasern & Toubro” (L&T), India’s infrastructure development company, which will execute the part of the work that falls within Mozambican territory. The work, which will start from the Matambo electricity substation in the central province of Tete, will consist of the construction of a 142 kilometer 400 Kilovolt transmission line, up to Zobue on…

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NEW BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION PUT ON HOLD AGAIN IN MOZAMBIQUE

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Construction work on the new bridge over the Save River, separating Mozambique’s south and central regions, has again been suspended, since December 2021, as a result of the government’s financial difficulties in funding the project. The Mozambican Minister of Public Works, Carlos Mesquita, said that the government is entirely aware of the situation, but it is now too cash-strapped to fund the project. However, without disclosing the date, he guaranteed that the work will resume….

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MOZAMBIQUE GOVT. TO INVESTIGATE POOR RESILIENCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE

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The investigation by the Mozambique government has come in the wake of the damage caused by cyclone Ana which swept through the central and northern provinces on 24 and 25 January. The storm caused the roads and bridge to collapse despite some of it just recently opened. Minister of Agriculture Celso Correia lamented that this is a recurrent problem of great concern to the government since millions of US dollars are spent every year on…

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WORLD BANK APPROVES $150 MILLION TO IMPROVE INCOMES AND BUILD RESILIENCE IN NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE

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WASHINGTON, June 18, 2021 —In order to improve incomes and build social and economic resilience of local communities in selected rural areas of Northern Mozambique, the World Bank approved today a $150 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA)* in support of the Government of Mozambique’s Northern Mozambique Rural Resilience Project. “This operation complements our efforts aimed at supporting Mozambique to address some of the key drivers of fragility in rural communities in Northern…

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MOZAMBIQUE INSURGENCY THREATENS MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR LNG PROJECT

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Mozambique is in the throes of an insurgency by Islamic State-linked militants who attacked the northern Mozambique town of Palma. Pictures of the attack show scenes of absolute carnage and a hectic rescue mission to save survivors who were being hunted down by insurgents [WATCH]. The attack happened close to the multi-billion dollar Mozambique LNG project under development by TOTAL. The Mozambique LNG Project started with the discovery of a vast quantity of natural gas off…

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MOZAMBIQUE GOVT. TO BUILD 49 HOSPITALS TO HELP THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR

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Government of Mozambique is looking at the possibility of expanding the health network throughout the country, through investing in building new district hospitals. The aim is to bring better care to the most vulnerable population groups in the country. Speaking at the opening in Maputo of a meeting of his Ministry’s Coordinating Council, Health Minister Armindo Tiago said that during the current government’s term of office (2020 to 2024), the number of district hospitals will…

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