(Bloomberg) — In October, Shafee Sidat was on a victory lap around Marracuene, a poor district on the outskirts of Mozambique’s capital city, Maputo. It had been one week since election day, and as early municipal results came in, the business tycoon and mayoral candidate proclaimed himself winner. Sidat, sporting a red and white football […]
Timber smuggling, estimated to be worth $23m (£18m) a year, from Mozambique’s ancient forests into China is helping to fund a brutal Islamist insurgency as well as a large criminal network in the north of the Southern African country. This illicit trade in rosewood is linked to the financing of Mozambique’s violent militants with links […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At least eight people from one family have died after their homemade boat sank in central Mozambique, state media reported Tuesday. Monday’s sinking on a tributary of the Zambezi River in Sofala province came days after nearly 100 people, many of them children, died in one of the country’s worst shipwrecks. […]