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The Quiet Majority: Why Mozambique's Small Firms, Not Its Megaprojects, Will Decide Its Jobs Future

New FinScope data show Mozambique's micro, small and medium enterprises involve 9.3 million people and turn over about 341 billion meticais a month. A critical reading of the numbers — and of a growth model that has bet on megaprojects that employ thousands while small firms carry millions.

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Economy & Markets

The Quiet Majority: Why Mozambique's Small Firms, Not Its Megaprojects, Will Decide Its Jobs Future

New FinScope data show Mozambique's micro, small and medium enterprises involve 9.3 million people and turn over about 341 billion meticais a month. A critical reading of the numbers — and of a growth model that has bet on megaprojects that employ thousands while small firms carry millions.

October 28, 2026 · 14 min read

Economy & Markets

AI Without Industrialisation: Can Africa Leapfrog the Traditional Development Model?

Artificial intelligence promises productivity without factories. We built an original model of job exposure across banking, education, retail, logistics and public administration in Mozambique — and found that the binding constraint is not the algorithm, but electricity, connectivity and paper.

October 19, 2026 · 13 min read

India & Mozambique

The Oilseed Corridor: Can Nampula Help Fill India's Cooking-Oil Gap?

On 2 October India's oil industry and the governor of Nampula signed up to explore an oilseed corridor through Nacala. India imports 16 million tonnes of vegetable oil a year; Mozambique sends it almost none. We run the numbers on what the deal could — and could not — achieve.

October 15, 2026 · 12 min read

What It Really Costs: Doing Business in Maputo vs. Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg and Lusaka

Cheap electricity and competitive fuel — but the highest corporate tax rate, 15.5% loans and a dollar shortage. A side-by-side look at the costs that decide where investors in southern and eastern Africa put their money.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Economy & Markets

Money in Your Pocket: Mozambique's Mobile Money Revolution

Mozambicans now hold almost four mobile wallets for every bank account. 446,000 agents, a new instant-payment system and falling card-terminal numbers are rewiring how shops, restaurants and workers get paid. The data, the gaps and the business playbook.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Economy & Markets

Tourism's Second Chance: From Ponta do Ouro to Ilha de Moçambique

Arrivals rebounded to 1.27 million in 2025 and visa rules have eased. But Mozambique earns about $200 per visitor while Tanzania earns over $1,900. Why the gap exists, where the visitors go, and how the industry could double its revenue by 2029.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Economy & Markets

Feeding 34 Million: Mozambique's Food Import Bill and the Case for Growing More at Home

Mozambique has fertile land, rivers and a long growing season — and spends over $1bn a year importing food. Rice alone cost a record $441m in 2024. Why the bill keeps rising, what the new import controls mean, and where local production makes business sense.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Economy & Markets

The Price of a Dollar: Inside Mozambique's Currency Squeeze

For five years the metical has sat at about 63.9 to the dollar. Economists say it is worth 90 or more; importers say they cannot buy dollars at any price. What the de facto peg has cost, what a devaluation would mean, and how businesses can prepare.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Region & Neighbours

The Narrow Sea: Shipping, Islands and Great-Power Rivalry in the Mozambique Channel

A 1,600km strait between Mozambique and Madagascar carries a large share of the world's oil tankers, and more every time the Red Sea closes. France, India, China and the littoral states are all positioning. A guide to the channel's traffic, disputes, threats and opportunities.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Region & Neighbours

Water and Watts: Cahora Bassa, Mphanda Nkuwa and Southern Africa's Power Market

Mozambique is southern Africa's hydropower battery — until the Zambezi runs low. A 30% production slump in 2025, a $6–7bn new dam, and the race to connect the 40% of Mozambicans still without electricity.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Region & Neighbours

Two Dreams, One Coastline: Why Mozambique's LNG Raced Ahead of Tanzania's

Both countries struck giant gas fields within months of each other around 2010, on either side of the Rovuma river. Sixteen years later Mozambique exports LNG and is building three more plants, while Tanzania's $42bn project still awaits its signature. What explains the gap — and could it close?

October 11, 2026 · 5 min read

Region & Neighbours

Wired Together: Power, Gas, Labour and the South Africa–Mozambique Economy

Electricity flows south from Cahora Bassa, gas flows south through a 865km pipeline, and miners and minerals cross at Ressano Garcia. In 2026 the shutdown of the Mozal smelter showed how tightly the two economies are bound — and how fragile the bonds are.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Region & Neighbours

Corridors of Power: How Maputo, Beira and Nacala Earn from Africa's Landlocked Heart

Six landlocked neighbours need the sea, and Mozambique has three ports to sell them. Record volumes at Maputo, a container boom at Beira and a coal railway at Nacala — and a new US-backed rival on Africa's other coast.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

India & Mozambique

Merchants of the Monsoon: The Indian Diaspora in Mozambique, from Ilha to Maputo

Indian traders were on the Mozambican coast before Vasco da Gama. They survived plague bans, internment after the fall of Goa and the upheaval of independence. Who the community is today, how many there are, and why they matter for the India–Mozambique economy.

October 11, 2026 · 6 min read

India & Mozambique

Medicines, Motors and Rice: Where Indian Brands Win — and Lose — in Mozambique

India supplies roughly six in ten of the medicines Mozambique imports, but only a sliver of its cars and machines. A category-by-category map of Indian market share, the competitors, and the openings for distributors and manufacturers.

October 11, 2026 · 5 min read

India & Mozambique

India's $5bn Bet on the Rovuma: Patience, Gas and Energy Security

In 2013 Indian state companies paid over $5bn for a fifth of Mozambique's richest gas block. Thirteen years, an insurgency and a four-year shutdown later, the bet is finally being built. What India owns, what it gets — and what it has cost.

October 11, 2026 · 7 min read

India & Mozambique

The Pulse of the North: How India's Dal Bowl Sets the Income of Mozambique's Farmers

Pigeon peas and cashews are the cash crops of northern Mozambique — and India is the customer that decides their price. A story of quotas, price crashes, a $374m comeback plan and where the margin really goes.

October 11, 2026 · 8 min read

India & Mozambique

The Indian Ocean Bridge: India–Mozambique Trade, Decoded

India is now Mozambique's biggest export market. But a relationship worth almost $4bn a year rests on a handful of commodities. What flows each way, who gains, and where the next decade of value lies.

October 11, 2026 · 8 min read

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