At the end of June 2026 Mozambique's new sovereign wealth fund was worth 118.36 million dollars. Of that, 116.13 million was gas revenue paid in by the government and 2.22 million was what the fund had earned on it. In the second quarter it made a 0.41 percent return, mostly…
On 18 September 2026 Othman Masoud Othman of the opposition party ACT-Wazalendo became Zanzibar's First Vice-President again, nearly a year after an…
Mozambique hosts some of the largest gas projects in Africa, worth around 50 billion dollars between them. Its government expects to earn 80.1…
About 250 kilometres inland from Pemba, near the town of Balama, an Australian company mines what it calls the largest high-quality graphite resource…
There is a second Pemba, and for many people searching the name, it's the one they mean. Pemba Island lies about 50 kilometres north of Unguja, the…
For most people, Pemba is reached by air, and in the current war that's the only sensible way. Pemba Airport, code POL, a few kilometres from the…
Mocímboa da Praia is where Cabo Delgado's war started, on 5 October 2017, with a pre-dawn attack on the town's police stations (the insurgency…
Pemba Bay is one of the great natural harbours of the Indian Ocean coast: a deep, sheltered bay several kilometres across, opening to the sea through…
On 10 March 2026, about a month after TotalEnergies restarted its gas project, a hall in Pemba filled with local business owners. The company had…
In the year to September 2025, Zanzibar earned 6.3 million dollars from clove exports, according to the Bank of Tanzania. The year before it had…
