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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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

Coastal livelihood interventions can help communities by providing additional incomes, while protecting and maintaining resources and the environment. The identification and promotion of resilient and diversified livelihood opportunities are crucial to enhance communities’ adaptive capacity to respond to the multiple stresses and shocks in a changing coastal environment. Coastal livelihood opportunities are especially important in their support for biodiversity conservation in and around...

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.

This report examines Haiyu’s conduct including what the company did or failed to do in acquiring the right to land for use of mining activity in Nagonha, what it did or failed to do in its operations in Nagonha, and what it did or failed to do in response to the villagers’ demand for compensation and resettlement following the flood. The report looks specifically at the breach of the right to adequate housing and decent living standards ensuing from Haiyu’s destruction of the wetland, and...

This chapter explores these broader processes from the perspective of linkage creation in Mozambique related to mega-projects in natural resource extraction and development from a political economy perspective. From a resource fairness perspective, linkage creation is essential as it allows for a more fair distribution of opportunities for local firms to gain from large-scale natural resource investments and for learning and spillover effects to other parts of the economy. In a longer term...

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...