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Mozambique Telecom is the new state-owned company resulting from the merger of TDM and Mcel

Já existe uma empresa resultante da fusão das antigas Telecomunicações Moçambicanas (TDM) e Moçambique Celular. É chamado de Moçambique Telecom ou simplesmente Tmcel. A fusão da TDM e da Mcel foi uma decisão tomada pelo Conselho de Ministros no segundo semestre de 2016. A decisão tinha como objetivo resgatar duas empresas estatais à beira da falência devido à falta de sustentabilidade e altas dívidas.

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Mozambique and Mauritius create joint commission

Mozambique and Mauritius on Thursday agreed to create a joint commission to put into effect various cooperation accords adopted by the two countries. The Maputo daily “Noticias”, reported that the decision was taken during a meeting between Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and the Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauht. Speaking to the press, President Nyusi explained that the joint commission will meet for its first session later this year, hopefully in the first half of the year. For the President, it is a matter of pride that an African country is one of the major investors in Mozambique, with Mauritius being among the top ten investors. Over the last five years, it has invested more than three billion US dollars in Mozambique. The President added, “we export cotton to Mauritius, we have a very well-known and successful Mauritian sugar project in Mozambique, and we also have poultry projects. Today we are looking at new areas of cooperation such as agro-processing, textiles, animal production and tourism’. The Mauritian Prime Minister noted that the joint commission would address over twenty memoranda of understanding between the two countries covering areas such as agriculture, investment, and information and communication technologies. In addition, the two countries have just initialled two new cooperation agreements covering tourism and the environment and a memorandum of understanding between the Mozambican Investment and Export Promotion Agency (APIEX) and the Mauritian Economic Development Board. On Thursday, President Nyusi also held a meeting with Mauritius’ acting President Barlen Vyapoory at his official residence. Today, President Nyusi and his wife, Isaura, will attend the official ceremony for the Commemoration of the 184th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery at Le Morne Village. President Nyusi is on a three day state visit to the island that began on Thursday. He is accompanied by his wife Isaura; Foreign Minister Jose Pacheco; Minister of Culture and Tourism Silva Dunduro; Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Luisa Meque; and Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce Julio Pio.

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Mozambique power links to South Africa may take weeks to restore

Damage by cyclone is exacerbating South Africa power outages Mozambique hydropower dam is a key supplier to South AfricaDamage caused by Cyclone Idai to pylons in Mozambique that carry power to neighboring countries may take weeks to repair, a state-power company official said. The damage to Mozambican infrastructure has exacerbated rolling outages in South Africa, where state-owned utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is struggling to bring faulty generating units back online. Mozambique’s 2,075-megawatt Cahora Bassa hydropower dam supplies almost three-quarters of its output to South Africa along a 1,400-kilometer (870-mile) transmission line. An initial assessment of the destruction caused by the cyclone shows that at least one pylon collapsed and four or five others had minor damage, Mario Houane, an electrical engineer at state-owned Electricidade de Mocambique EP’s transmission division, said in an emailed response to questions. Further evaluations are being hampered by damage to roads and bridges and continuing rains, he said. “The priority at this point in time is to save as many people’s lives as possible (this is a national emergency) and, to exacerbate the situation, the weather outlook for the coming days is bleak,” Houane said. “My educated guess is that it may take at least two weeks” to repair the damage, he said. South Africa implemented controlled blackouts for a seventh straight day on Wednesday. The outages, aimed at reducing demand pressure on the grid, are crippling businesses and leaving roads gridlocked in cities throughout Africa’s most-industrialised economy.

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Mota-Engil offers $1 million recovery works following cyclone Idai

Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil is helping the Mozambican government with $1 million recovery works following Cyclone Idai, the company’s CEO Manuel Mota told Lusa on Thursday. “We immediately offered to help with recovery works, construction services and also food and other essentials through the Manuel António da Mota Foundation”, he said. Mota-Engil is one of the largest employers in Mozambique with 2,000 workers and the country represents 20% of the company’s turnover in Africa. “The works we are going to provide are valued at $1 million are borne by the company”, the CEO stressed, although none of the 20 worksites has been affected by Cyclone Idai. “We have worked in Mozambique for many years, the country is our main client, so it is time to show our solidarity”, he concluded. Some 400 people died in the passage of the cyclone through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, according to provisional data released by the countries’ authorities. Mozambique’s president, Filipe Nyusi, announced on Tuesday that 350,000 were at risk and decreed the state of national emergency. He has also proclaimed three days of national mourning. The International Red Cross said that at least 400,000 people are displaced in Beira due to the cyclone, calling it the “worst humanitarian crisis in the country.” With heavy rains and winds of up to 170km/h, the storm reached Beira (central Mozambique) on Thursday night, leaving approximately 500,000 residents without power and communication lines.

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Emirates may start flying to Mozambique

The Mozambican government, through Airports of Mozambique (ADM), hopes to persuade UAE airline Emirates to fly to the country, in the light of an understanding with the Dubai National Air Transport Association (DNATA), a company that provides check-in and cargo handling services at the Dubai airport, and which is a Emirates shareholder. The government, in the shape of Airports of Mozambique and Airlines of Mozambique (LAM), which are majority shareholders in MAHS, the company that provides handling services at Mozambican airports, will, within two months, sign a contract of sale of its shares to DNATA, which will in turn help the country attract international airlines. The announcement was made in Maputo on Tuesday by Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Airports of Mozambique, Emanuel Chaves, in a business environment meeting with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce. “We came to the decision that we should attract a strategic partner to be an element of attraction for airlines to come to the country. We are, at the moment, negotiating with DNATA to close the agreement for the sale of our shares in MAHS so that they can participate in our strategy to develop new routes,” he said. According to Chaves, Emirates Airlines has the ability to put the country on the international route, linking to an important hub for traffic from Asia and America and facilitating access to “destination Mozambique” at a more competitive price. Emirates is one of the top 20 airlines in the world in terms of revenue, passengers transported and kilometres travelled, and has become the largest airline in the Middle East in terms of revenue, fleet size and passengers transported.

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