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South Africa’s integrated energy and chemical company Sasol said on Monday that it has sold 30 percent of its stake in the Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Investments Company (ROMPCO) to a consortium of fund managers for R5 billion (about US$354 million).
Portugal has offered to send an additional 60 soldiers to train Mozambican troops in tackling an Islamic State-linked insurgency in the north of the country, APA learnt here on Tuesday.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has postponed an extraordinary summit of its security organ that was set for the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday, citing the non-availability of the chairman of the body.
French oil and gas major Total on Monday suspended operations at its US$20-billion Mozambique liquefied national gas plant, citing the deteriorating security situation in the north of the southern African country where the project is based.
More than 1,110 companies have closed in northern Mozambique since an armed insurgence began in the region in October 2017, according to reports monitored here on Friday.
Mozambican police have busted a racket that was illegally issuing fake COVID-19 negative results at the country’s border with South Africa.
Recent events in northern Mozambique have focused world attention on a crisis that has been several years in the making.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has agreed to deploy its Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) to assist Mozambique fend off attacks by Islamic State-linked insurgents who are wrecking havoc in the north of the country.
The crisis in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province has morphed into a much bigger security threat and humanitarian catastrophe involving a possible third force and demands a coordinated regional response, Botswana’s foreign minister Lemogang Kwape said on Wednesday.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has accused Tanzania of turning back hundreds of asylum seekers fleeing attacks by ISIS-linked insurgents in the Mozambican coastal town of Palma.