On 29 January 2026 TotalEnergies' chief executive, Patrick Pouyanné, stood with Mozambique's president, Daniel Chapo, at the Afungi construction site in the far north of Cabo Delgado and announced that Mozambique LNG was fully back in business. The 20-billion-dollar project had…
Pemba was a quiet place for most of its life. A colonial port and provincial capital on a vast natural bay, it was far enough from the wars of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pemba's hotel market runs on the gas industry and the aid agencies, not on tourists. When TotalEnergies froze its project in 2021, business slumped…
