Mozambique

Government
- Investment Promotion Centre www.cpi.co.mz
- www.turismomocambique.co.mz
- national statistics institute http://www.ine.gov.mz/

Maputo (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈputu]; formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976) is the capital and most populous city of Mozambique. It is located near the southern end of the country, within 120 km of the Swaziland and South Africa borders. The area on which Maputo stands was first settled as a fishing village in the 1500s.^[4] The modern city traces its origins to a Portuguese fort established on the site in 1781. It was soon named Lourenço Marques, after the navigator of the same name who first explored the area in 1544. 
- The street names were changed after independence in 1975. Close ties with the Soviet bloc highly influenced the new names that were chosen as did removal of names referring to colonial era figures.Maputo is a melting pot of several cultures. The Bantu and Portuguese cultures dominate, but the influence of Arab, Indian, and Chinesecultures is also felt.


political parties
- The Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO; Portuguese: Resistência Nacional Moçambicana) is a militant organization and political movement in Mozambique. Sponsored by the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), it was founded in 1975 as part of an anti-Communist backlash against the country's ruling FRELIMO party.

• hkej 23mar18 shum article

Trade and Investment Environment
- company registration

• http://www.mozambiquehighcommission.org.uk/?id_w=7&id_w1=33

- investment guarantee

• investment act no 3/93, June 24

- tax preferences 

• investment act no 3/93, june 24

- special tax preferences article

• act no 4/2009, Jan 12

politics
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/world/africa/mozambique-renamo-peace.html Mozambique’s president and the leader of country’s main opposition group signed a new peace accord Tuesday, pledging to end years of violence and work toward peaceful elections in October.

• ft 7aug19 mozambique truce clears way to vast gas fields

people
- Marcelino dos Santos (born 20 May 1929 in Lumbo) is a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and statesman. As a young man he travelled to Portugal, and France for an education. He was a founding member of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO—Mozambican Liberation Front), in 1962, and served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977. He was Minister of Economic Development in the late 1970s, Frelimo Political Bureau member in charge of the economy in the early 1980s, Chairman of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, from 1987 to 1994, and, as of 1999, remains a member of the Frelimo Central Committee. He represents the left wing of the party, remaining an avowed Marxist-Leninist, despite the party's embrace of capitalism in recent decades—an embrace which dos Santos declares is temporary.^[2] He says that the "retreat" to capitalism was necessary in order to receive Western help in dealing with the RENAMO incursion and Civil War. Marcelino dos Santos is the son of Firmindo dos Santos and Teresa Sabino dos Santos. He was raised in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique (now Maputo,Mozambique). His father was politically active: a member of the African Association of Mozambique. Marcelino left Mozambique in 1947 to continue his education at the Industrial Institute in Lisbon - the Instituto Industrial de Lisboa. At the Casa dos Estudantes do Imperio (House for Students of the Empire) he rubbed shoulders with others destined to become leaders of the independence movement in the Portuguese colonies—such as Amílcar Cabral (Guinea-Bissau), Agostinho Neto (Angola), andEduardo Mondlane (Mozambique). By 1950, with Neto arrested and Mondlane departed for the United States, dos Santos had relocated along with several others to Paris. There he lived with writers and artists associated with the literary magazine Présence Africaine. He was instrumental in the formation of the Anti-Colonial Movement (MAC) in Paris in 1957. He joined the Paris branch of the Uniao Democratica Nacional de Mocambique (UDENAMO), one of the nationalist groups that would later merge to form FRELIMO. He was involved in the founding of the Conference of Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies (CONCP) at Casablanca in April 1961, elected permanent secretary in charge of coordinating nationalist activity. He was skilled at communicating the aims of the CONCP to an international audience. After the founding of FRELIMO in 1962, in which dos Santos was also involved, he increasingly devoted his energies to that organisation. By 1964 he was FRELIMO's secretary for external affairs, invaluable to the party for his communication skills which he employed, for example, in his addresses before the Organization of African Unity, the Afro-Asian Solidarity Conference, and the United Nations. After Mondlane's assassination, dos Santos was elected to the three-person Presidency council, with Uria Simango and Samora Machel, which guided the party through the subsequent difficult period. In 1970, when Machel assumed the sole presidency, dos Santos became vice-president. Under the pseudonyms Kalungano and Lilinho Micaia, he published his early poems in O Brado Africano, and his work appeared in two anthologies produced by the Casa dos Estudantes do Imperio in Lisbon. Under the pen-name Lilinho Micaia, a collection of his poetry was published in the Soviet Union. Under his real name, he had a book published by the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos (Mozambican Writers' Association) in 1987, entitled Canto do Amor Natural.
- Eusébio da Silva Ferreira GCIH GCM (Portuguese pronunciation: [ewˈzɛβju ðɐ ˈsiɫvɐ fɨˈʁɐjɾɐ]; 25 January 1942 – 5 January 2014) was a Portuguese^[2] footballer who played as a striker. Eusébio is considered by many as one of the greatest footballers of all time.^[3][4] During his professional career, he scored 733 goals in 745 matches (41 goals in 64 matches for Portugal).^[4] Nicknamed the Black Panther,^[5] the Black Pearl,^[6] or o Rei (the King), he was known for his speed, technique, athleticism and his ferocious right-footed shot, making him a prolific goalscorer.

•  Eusébio was born in the Mafalala neighborhood, Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Portuguese Mozambique on 25 January 1942. His parents were Laurindo António da Silva Ferreira, a black railroad worker from Malanje, Angola,^[12] and Elisa Anissabeni, a black Mozambican woman.

- manuel chang, former minister of finance

• to keep in view ethnicity, ancestral origin

indigenous people
- The Yao people, waYao, are a major Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based at the southern end of Lake Malawi, who played an important part in the history of Southeast Africa during the 19th century. The Yao are a predominantly Muslim people of about 2 million spread over three countries, Malawi, northern Mozambique, and in Ruvuma Region and Mtwara Region of Tanzania. The Yao people have a strong cultural identity, which transcends the national borders.

• work with hineyguide (bird) to harvest honey

Effect of falling oil prices
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/57ca9338-889d-11e5-90de-f44762bf9896.html

For much of the past decade, Mozambique has been one of the continent’s hottest investment destinations, largely due to the discovery by oil companies Anadarko and ENI of vast offshore gasfields with the potential to bring in billions of dollars of investment and transform one of the world’s least developed nations into one of its top producers of liquefied natural gas. But just as the slump in oil and metal prices has hit Africa’s top commodity exporters, from Nigeria to Zambia, it is hurting poorer nations hoping to be among the next generation of commodity exporters. The trend is radically altering the narrative of the Africa growth story — one of the few bright spots in the global economy in recent years.

History
- origin of country name

• The country was named Moçambique by the Portuguese after the Island of Mozambique, derived from Musa Al Big or Mossa Al Bique or Mussa Ben Mbiki, an Arab trader who first visited the island and later lived there

- Operation Eland, also known as the Nyadzonya^[a] Raid, was a military operation carried out by operatives of the Rhodesian Selous Scouts at Nyadzonya in Mozambique on 9 August 1976.^[2] The Rhodesians claimed 300 ZANLA and 30 FAM (Armed Forces of Mozambique) soldiers were killed; documentation captured after the event suggested that 1,028 were killed.
- civil war (1977-1992)

• hkej 6jun19 shum article

usa
- http://www.businessinsider.com/sec-is-investigating-banks-that-sold-mozambiques-tuna-bond-2016-12 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating the sale of $850 million in bonds issued by Mozambique by Credit Suisse, Russia's VTB Group and BNP Paribas, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The southern African nation said in October its debt was unsustainable and the International Monetary Fund suspended assistance to Mozambique when evidence of $2 billion in secret loans emerged. The bonds were sold in 2013 to finance Mozambican state-owned fishing company EMATUM's plans to develop tuna fishing in the impoverished nation, but the government later said it had also bought military equipment with the funds. VTB Group's press office said in a statement on Thursday that it executed the transactions with Mozambique state-owned companies "in compliance with appropriate policies".

north korea
- Joint fishing ventures are just one area of illicit trade the two countries are engaged in. In a months-long investigation, CNN uncovered a secret web of front companies, military cooperation and elite-forces training deals between North Korea and Mozambique, all in violation of international sanctions, according to United Nations investigators. Documents reviewed by CNN show that the cooperation is sealed with illegal contracts worth millions of dollars. The money is funneled through regionally based North Korean diplomats to Pyongyang, some 7,500 miles away. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/03/africa/north-korea-mozambique-sanctions-intl/index.html

China
- bilateral trade agreement in 1982
- bilateral cooperation

• 4th Ministerial Conference of the Forum of China Africa Cooperation on 8 Nov 2009 (among others, 60% exports to china to be duty free in 2010)
• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-05/19/content_25361213.htm China has offered to help Mozambique by stepping up cooperation on natural gas exploration and manufacturing. President Xi Jinping and visiting Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi also decided on Wednesday to elevate the relationship between the two countries to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. Xi said both nations should continue to view and treat bilateral ties from a strategic and long-term perspective, and provide support and understanding to each other on issues related to their core interests and major concerns. He said China supports Mozambique's efforts to boost national defense and maintain stability. It will also step up security cooperation. He said China is willing to enhance cooperation with the Portuguese-speaking African nation to help it to transform its potential in human and natural resources to economic development. Nyusi said Mozambique cherishes the traditional friendship with China and welcomes more investment from Chinese enterprises.

- commercial representative in china - China Tong Jian Co Ltd
- media

• http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-09/06/content_31621289.htm Chinese media professionals will help to train their counterparts from Mozambique, a senior official said on Tuesday.While meeting a media delegation from the African country in Beijing, Jiang Jianguo, minister of the State Council Information Office, said the visiting group provided a great opportunity for the two countries to strengthen cooperation. As economic cooperation has increased between China and Mozambique, the need for more news media communication about best practices has followed, Jiang said.

- investors from China

• By the end of 2008, the di of china was 34.64 million usd, and more than 30 chinese enterprises invest in mozambique mainly focused on timber processing, cement factory, mineral resources exploration, construction materials, steel factories, and so on
• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-12-20/china-s-tong-jian-to-start-car-plant-in-mozambique-aim-news-agency-says Mozambique’s government and China’s Tong Jian Investment Ltd. signed a $200 million pact to set up a vehicle assembly plant in Maputo province, the state-run Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique reported, citing director-general of the African country’s Office for Special Economic Zones Danilo Nala.

- education

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2018-01/04/content_35436123.htm Kweichow Moutai Group, a Chinese liquor producer, is sponsoring a school renovation project in an African country.

Macau
- role in china's diplomacy with mozambique hkej 23mar18 shum article


Event
- maputo international trade fair http://www.mega.gov.za/index.php/maputo-international-trade-fair/