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Este estudo mostrou que, para serem analiticamente mais produtivos, os conceitos de circulação global, como o de transição energética, precisam ser adaptados para dar conta de realidades específicas num mundo que, historicamente, tem produzido relações desiguais. No caso de Moçambique, a estratégia para a transição energética passa pela exploração do gás natural, mas esta abordagem tem como limitação as características da indústria extractiva que produz poucas oportunidades de...

The proposal for the Mphanda Nkuwa dam 60 km downstream from Cahora Bassa, and using the same water to generate more electricity, is back on the table. The dam has been proposed since the colonial era, but there has never been a market for the electricity. Producing hydrogen would be the perfect market. In this special issue, we look at Mphanda Kkuwa and the potential for hydrogen.

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.

Australian mining company Syrah Resources has resumed production of graphite ahead of schedule at its Balama mine in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, it said in a statement to shareholders on Tuesday. The plant's activities were halted in late March last year following the country's implementat

Shares in Altona Rare Earths soared by over 60% today following the news that the group has entered into an MoU to acquire up to 70% in the Monte Muambe Rare Earths Project. Should it choose to proceed with the investment following a 90-day due diligence period, the project would represent its first venture into a carbonatite hosted REE asset.

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.

A Akilizetho-ADS elaborou um estudo denominado Economia Política da Governação dos Recursos Naturais, em Nampula. A pesquisa foi feita entre Dezembro de 2019 e Janeiro de 2020. A abordagem do estudo foi baseada numa análise de economia política e circunscrito apenas aos recursos minerais e hidrocarbonetos. O objectivo do estudo foi de compreender as relações entre governos, empresas extractivas, comunidades, sociedade civil e reflectir sobre as dinâmicas de governação da indústria extractiva...

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...

In the light of Mozambique’s natural resources boom—especially its large-scale investments in mining, oil, and gas—this paper analyses the prospects for the extractive industries to contribute to economic transformation from an institutional perspective. To this purpose, we address the institutional dynamics of the resources sector and consider the underlying causes of the identified outcomes. The National Development Strategy, as the instrument presenting the vision for economic...

Face ao boom de recursos naturais em Moçambique — em especial dos seus grandes investimentos em exploração mineira, petróleo e gás —, este documento analisa a perspectiva de as indústrias extractivas contribuírem para a transformação económica de um ponto de vista institucional. Para esse efeito, abordamos a dinâmica institucional do sector dos recursos e consideramos as causas subjacentes aos resultados identificados. É discutida a Estratégia Nacional de Desenvolvimento enquanto instrumento...

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...

Since the October 2017 attacks by alleged Islamist insurgents, commonly referred to as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama and locally know as Al Shabab, on Mocimboa da Praia, it has not been entirely clear who the attackers were, what their strategic objectives are and on whose domestic and international support they rely. This paper, grounded in a historical understanding of conflict in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province, seeks to identify possible stakeholders and scenarios in what we no longer see as an insurgency, but a war.

Since initial exploratory drilling in 2007 by U.S. operator Anadarko, Mozambique has uncovered vast natural gas volumes within its offshore basins, and now carries the potential to be the fourth largest natural gas exporter globally. With discoveries ranging from Anadarko’s initial 480 feet of gas found in Area 1 in 2010, to Eni’s discovery of 425 billion cubic meters one year later, the onus now lies on major operators including Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Eni and more to develop the...

Este capítulo descreve e explica como e por que razão a economia moçambicana e as suas dinâmicas de expansão e de crise, as suas contradições e os seus paradoxos foram estruturados e articulados pela sua relação de dependência com o capital financeiro privado internacional, e as implicações desta relação para as características, as dinâmicas e as opções de acumulação privada de capital e de desenvolvimento da sociedade como um todo em Moçambique.

Proposed Development Objective(s) Parent The project development objective is to integrate rural households into sustainable agriculture and forest-based value chains in the Project area and, in the event of an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, to provide immediate and effective response to said Eligible Crisis or Emergency. Components Agriculture and Forest-Based Value Chain Development Securing Land Tenure Rights and Increasing Natural Resources Resilience Project Coordination and Management Contingency Emergency Response

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