Mozambique and Malawi signed on Friday an agreement to expand and modernize the Nacala Development Corridor. The project includes a railway that crosses the two countries and will stimulate the operations of the economic activities, […]
Category: Infrastructure
Mozambique domestic air routes opened to competition
For the first time ever, foreign airlines have been authorised to operate domestic routes within Mozambique. The routes were put out to tender earlier this year and, announcing the results at a Maputo press conference […]
SVI armouring trains for Mozambique
SVI Engineering is in the process of manufacturing and fitting armour protection to over 100 Mozambican locomotives after a spate of attacks against the vehicles. According to Jaco de Kock, Director at SVI, the company […]
Tanzania’s Zanzibar to upgrade airport to woo more tourists
Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago will upgrade Pemba Airport to an international one so as to boost tourism, an official said Wednesday. The move is also meant to improve aviation services in the Indian Ocean archipelago, […]
Districts of Mozambique linked to the national electricity grid by 2018
Mozambican state-owned power company Electricidade de Moçambique (EdM) will complete the electrification of the remaining four districts that are not connected to the national electricity grid by 2018, three in Zambezia province and the other […]
Only 10 out of 2000 Tanzanian companies pay mining taxes
Tanzania is experiencing an increase in tanzanite revenue losses due to the unscrupulous trading and jewel smuggling in the country. Government however is moving to establish a tanzanite processing zone, which may prove to be […]
