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Activists sue US development bank over $4.6bn loan to massive Mozambique gas project

The Independent · July 16, 2025

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

IFC to provide development funding for Phases 2 and 3 of Mozambique transmission line

Engineering News ·

Development finance institution the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is a member of the World Bank Group, will provide development funding to UK government-backed Africa electricity networks investor Gridworks for Phase 2 and 3 of...

Greens challenge Trump’s $4.7B loan for Mozambique LNG project

E&E News · July 16, 2025

An environmental group is challenging the Trump administration’s $4.7 billion loan to French energy giant TotalEnergies to help build a liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique. The Trump administration touted the loan as supporting U.S....

ANDRITZ Receives Major Order For Rehabilitation Of Mozambique's Largest Hydropower Plant

MENAFN · July 16, 2025

EQS-News: Andritz AG / Key word(s): Incoming Orders ANDRITZ receives major order for rehabilitation of Mozambique's largest hydropower plant 16.07.2025 / 08:00 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement....

A renaissance for nature as the World Heritage Committee closes in Paris

IUCN ·

Under the calm and efficient chairpersonship of Prof Nikolay Nenov of Bulgaria, and rapporteured by Ms Joelle Bucyana of Rwanda, IUCN played a large part in the meeting in our role as statutory advisory body on nature to the World Heritage...

Mozambique targets energy independence with new refinery backed by Nigeria’s Aiteo

The Guardian (Nigeria) · July 13, 2025

Mozambique has taken a significant step towards energy independence and regional influence with the signing of an agreement to develop a 240,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) oil refinery, backed by Nigerian energy firm Aiteo. The agreement, formalised...

Trump administration deported ‘monsters’ to tiny African country in deal catching diplomats by surprise

The Independent · July 16, 2025

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Mozambique's $57B LNG Projects Get Reboot Despite Risk

Rigzone · July 11, 2025

Four years after terrorist attacks halted a massive liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, momentum behind $57 billion in facilities that will export the fuel is picking up. TotalEnergies SE and Eni SpA have readied contractors and signed...

Mozambique’s $57bn of LNG projects get reboot despite risk

Engineering News ·

Four years after terrorist attacks halted a massive liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, momentum behind $57-billion in facilities that will export the fuel is picking up. TotalEnergies SE and Eni SpA have readied contractors and signed...

Global tracking study reveals marine megafauna hotspots lie largely unprotected

Mongabay · July 16, 2025

A global study tracking nearly 13,000 marine animals representing 111 species reveals they spend 80% of their time in just 63% of their range, yet only about 5% of these high-use ocean areas are currently protected. The research identifies...

TotalEnergies' Mozambique gas project at a turning point

Modern Ghana ·

Construction on a stalled $20 billion gas project by TotalEnergies in Mozambique is edging closer to restarting, four years after it was suspended due to a bloody jihadist insurgency. The French oil giant has said it hopes to re-ignite the project...

US sends third-country deportees to the small African kingdom of Eswatini

WPHL - Pennsylvania · July 16, 2025

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. The...

Policy uncertainty to blame for SA running out of gas in two years

Mail & Guardian · July 16, 2025

The gas is supplied from Mozambique’s Pande-Temane fields through the Rompco pipeline. Photo: Graham Kietzmann/Sasol In just less than two years, South Africa will run out of gas with little to no preparation for this pending critical energy...

The Youth Are Not the Future — They Are the Now

Nyasa Times · July 16, 2025

The recent National Youth Summit in Lilongwe, held under the theme “Harnessing Youth Innovation for Economic Empowerment,” was more than a gathering—it was a wake-up call. As Malawi moves toward the ambitious vision of Malawi 2063—a self-reliant...

Roberto Zolho, conservationist who helped restore Mozambique’s wildlife following its civil war, has died at 65.

Mongabay · July 10, 2025

For a man who spent his life studying the movements of wildlife, Roberto Zolho was most at peace when not moving at all—drifting in a kayak down the Guacheni channels, pausing to admire an egret, a kingfisher, or a sunlit curve in the reeds. In...

Saudi Arabia lifesaving date shipment to feed 100,000 conflict affected Mozambicans

World Food Programme ·

MAPUTO - The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has delivered 23 metric tonnes of premium Saudi dates to support more than 100,000 vulnerable women,...

Zimbabwe Safari Guide Recalls Surreal Calm as Hippo Swallowed Him Whole

The Zimbabwe Mail · July 15, 2025

By sheer good luck, a team of military medics was on hand to treat his injuries(Image: Facebook) A Zimbabwean safari guide who survived being attacked and partially swallowed by a hippopotamus has described the harrowing encounter—and the strange...

African tea estates planted by Scots named as world heritage sites

The Times ·

At the turn of the 20th century, planters with seedlings from Edinburgh would have crawled among the sacred trees and waterfalls of Malawi’s towering Mount Mulanje, establishing Africa’s first commercial tea plantations. Tea from Mulanje can still...

When wildlife roams

The Times Group Malawi · July 10, 2025

By Emmanuel Chilemba: The longstanding human-wildlife conflict continues between communities and wild animals from Lengwe National Park in Chikwawa District, as authorities blame poachers for vandalising the fence. For many years, the animals have...

There's a New, Unexpected Reason to Visit One of the World's Ultimate Safari Destinations

Travel + Leisure ·

Our guide, Dux Mareja, threw out his left arm like a shield. “Step around,” he warned, ushering my family down the main pathway of andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge (from $1,850 per person, all-inclusive), a 12-suite property on the...