Pemba, Mozambique: Cabo Delgado's port city, its gas projects, security and bay, plus Pemba Island, Tanzania
About 250 kilometres inland from Pemba, near the town of Balama, an Australian company mines what it calls the largest high-quality graphite resource outside China. Graphite is the main material in the anodes of lithium-ion batteries, and China controls most of the world's…
In June 2026 more than 12,000 people in Cabo Delgado were forced from their homes, according to the UN's humanitarian office, OCHA. Over the first…
In the early hours of 5 October 2017, about thirty armed men attacked three police stations in Mocímboa da Praia, a port town in the north of Cabo…
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…
Pemba is the capital of a province at war, and it is also a functioning port city where oil and gas contractors, aid workers, officials and a few…
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…
Between 22 and 29 June 2026 Gemfields held its first "Trade Select" auction of rough rubies from Montepuez, in Cabo Delgado's interior west of Pemba…
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…
On 29 January 2026 TotalEnergies' chief executive, Patrick Pouyanné, stood with Mozambique's president, Daniel Chapo, at the Afungi construction site…
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…
