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In its first step to exit the coal business, Brazilian mining firm Vale will acquire all stakes held by Japanese trading house Mitsui in the Moatize coal mine and Nacala corridor coal infrastructure in Mozambique.

Moma, one of the world’s biggest titanium mineral deposits, is located 160km from the city of Nampula in Mozambique, Africa. It is owned and operated by Kenmare Resources. The mine contains the titanium minerals ilmenite, rutile and zircon, which are used as feedstock to produce titanium dioxide pigment. It started production of heavy mineral concentrate (HMC) containing these three minerals in April 2007. It produced 1,201,100t of HMC and shipped approximately 853,100t of finished products...

Este é o nono relatório de reconciliação dos pagamentos efectuados pelas empresas que operam na indústria extractiva e os recebimentos do Estado. Foram reconciliadas 97% das receitas tributárias provenientes da indústria extractiva. As diferenças apuradas entre os pagamentos das empresas e os recebimentos do Estado correspondem a 0,17% dos montantes confirmados pelo Estado em 2019.

The notion of the ‘resource curse’ suggests that large inflows of extractive industry revenues cause many adverse macro-economic and political effects. The resource curse literature focuses on the impact of actual inflows of extractive resource revenues. However, anticipation of future resource revenues can also lead to negative macro-economic and political effects even before resource extraction takes place, which points to the role of behavioral aspects of the ‘resource curse’. Using...

This article explores the ways in which the ruling Frelimo elite in Mozambique engaged creatively with the opportunities and constraints created by Sasol's Pande and Temane natural gas project as they have evolved from the early 2000s until today. This is a period that has seen ruling-elite actors become involved in various projects related to the production of electricity from ‘domestic natural gas’. We argue that focusing on the initial gas investment and how it evolved over time makes it...

The extractive industry, particularly the oil and gas sector, has proved promising in the Mozambican economy with potential to contribute to economic growth. It is expected that in the next 3 years the country will show growth in the order of two digits. However, in order to ensure the transmission of growth to economic development based on the exploitation of these resources, there are aspects that should not be ignored such as transparency in governance in the sector. This aspect is also...

Com a entrada no novo milénio, e em virtude do aumento da procura de matérias primas nos mercados internacionais, intensifica-se um modelo de desenvolvimento assente na exploração de recursos naturais. Em Cabo Delgado emerge uma economia extractiva, fortemente dirigida para mercados externos e dependente da oscilação de preços nos mercados internacionais, que o país não tem condições de controlar. Grandes multinacionais envolvem-se numa acesa competição pelo acesso a recursos, em complexas...

Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of dollars in revenue loss annually. Globally, initiatives to address this have centred on information disclosure (ID) but under what conditions does it work to promote accountability in the extractive sector that for a long time has seen its revenue management as being a major cause of conflict in Africa? Our study on this issue in Mozambique reveals intriguing findings, which suggest that protagonists of ID would need to...

This is the ninth report reconciling payments made by companies operating in the extractive industry and receipts from the State. 97% of tax revenues from the extractive industry were reconciled. The differences between the payments by the companies and the receipts from the State correspond to 0,17% of the amounts confirmed by the State in 2019

Este artigo surge na sequência de um artigo anterior onde se considerou em termos gerais muitas das questões que Moçambique enfrenta hoje em dia na gestão dos seus novos recursos extractivos. Em primeiro lugar descreve-se o pico de investimento já desencadeado pelas novas descobertas de gás em Moçambique. Depois apresenta-se em resumo alguma da literatura mais recente sobre os efeitos desses picos noutros países e contextos. De seguida analisam-se os principais aspectos dos resultados...

This paper is a sequel to an earlier paper that looked in broad terms at many of the issues that Mozambique faces today in managing its new extractive resources. The paper first describes the investment surge that has already been prompted by new gas discoveries in Mozambique. It then summarizes some of the more recent literature that has examined the effects of such surges in other country contexts. It next examines the main aspects of the disappointing economic outcomes that have so far...

In recent years, Mozambique has made international headlines for the significant hydrocarbon deposits found offshore. These have increased the country's extractive resource endowments, in addition to its mining and onshore natural gas sector. It is expected that these industries will contribute to economic diversification and social development, not least by means of procuring locally produced goods and services and hiring Mozambicans. A key factor to achieve this is building domestic...

The violent insurgency in northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, that started in October 2017 and is still ongoing, caught the government of the country and the public by surprise. Although this insurgency remains largely unexplored and little understood, the only study done so far has suggested that it is being carried out by Muslim youth connected to Islamic radicalism, in particular to the Harakat alShabaab of Somalia and its offshoots in Kenya, Tanzania, and as far as DRC.1 Islam...

Moçambique é um dos países da África com muitos recursos naturais. O grau de conhecime nto geológico até agora atingido, mostra que todos os recursos minerais considerados apresentam perspectivas favoráveis para a sua exploração. A indústria extrativa é o sector que tem grandes empregadores de mão-de-obra e tem um grande impacto rural podendo constituir grandes focos de desenvolvimento e de combate a pobreza nas áreas onde se encontra inserido. Neste caso, o presente trabalho visa...

This article explores how the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is linked to the prospects of natural resource windfalls for the country. Drawing on the political settlement approach, it explores how the distribution of power both within and outside the ruling elite is structured and consequently how the underlying political processes have been shaped by the expectations of natural resource windfalls. The article argues that the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is not...

Final JICA report on Nacala Corridor Development Project, whose objectives include: to clarify organizations for promoting and coordinating the implementation of development strategies for the Nacala Corridor Region in accordance with PEDEC-Nacala and to prepare for the implementation of high priority projects in accordance with PEDEC-Nacala. The study project commenced in April 2012 and the final study report was produced in April 2015.

Research Findings - It is unlikely that the extractives sector can any time soon be used to finance visionary transformation strategies aimed at achieving economic diversification. Due to the country’s fiscal situation and delays in developing the offshore natural gas sector, it seems that extractives will not provide additional revenues for at least another decade, if not longer. If the fiscal crisis results in the further deterioration of the provision of public goods and services, the...

The government of Mozambique remains confident that its mining boom is set to accelerate in the coming years, despite weak sentiment in the global mining industry. Rising coal production and an eventual rebound in global prices will spur some growth in Mozambique's mining sector in 2016‑20 but we expect that, weighed down by infrastructure deficits and non-competitive policies, it will remain a relatively small contributor to GDP growth. Mozambique has untapped coal reserves estimated to...

O gás de Moçambique pode ser usado para promover industrialização e desenvolvimento rural desde que, a partir de agora, sejam feitas as opções correctas. As actuais prioridades vão para os megaprojectos baseados na exportação, que prometem altos rendimentos mas que, tal como os megaprojectos anteriores, fazem pouco pela criação de empregos ou pela redução da pobreza. Os megaprojectos custando dezenas de bilhões de dólares são essenciais, mas o Conselho de Ministros pode orientar as...

Mozambique’s gas can be used to promote industrialisation and rural development, but only if key choices are made now. Current priorities are for export based mega-projects promising high revenues, but like past mega-projects doing little to create jobs or reduce poverty. Mega-projects costing tens of billions of dollars are essential, but the Council of Ministers can instruct that negotiations give a higher priority to using the gas to create a domestic industry and jobs, even if it reduces short term income.