Super-App: How MTN and Ant International Are Building MoMo’s Next Layer
Africa has more mobile-money accounts than almost any region on earth, and yet most of them still do one thing: move money from A to B. The gap between a wallet and a financial platform is where the real value sits, and it is the gap MTN is now trying to close. On 9...
Authorities Clarify FMD Controls: Dairy and Aggregates Exempt
Foot-and-mouth disease control tends to be discussed as a single switch — borders shut, trucks stopped, trade frozen. The reality is more granular, and the gap between blanket fear and the actual rules is where commercial damage often happens. In mid-February 2026,...
Moswaane Calls for Unity over the Proposed Constitutional Court
A court is meant to settle disputes, but the proposal to create one has become a dispute of its own. Botswana's debate over a dedicated Constitutional Court pits an argument about strengthening the rule of law against an argument about the price of running it. On 10...
Machipanda: US$37.2m border concession heads for construction, with a Road Fund share
The buildings arrive first; the Beira Corridor's two-to-three-day truck queues only shrink if both governments change how they inspect. Construction of the Machipanda one-stop border post in Manica province is scheduled to begin in October 2026, with an investment...
Treasury bills on 1 October: a 12.15% 91-day rate, 10bp under the lending window
The calendar puts an extra Type A bill session on Thursday 1 October, at the end of a week in which pricing turned up. Banco de Moçambique's second-half calendar lists an additional Treasury bill session for Thursday 1 October 2026, the last day of a week that began...
Mozambique’s August 2026 CPI: 6.45%, lowest since April, transport stuck at 14.77%
Annual inflation fell to 6.45% in August 2026 as prices dropped 0.28%. Food inflation eased to 8.91% from 12.62%, while transport held at 14.77%. Where the remaining pressure sits.
US$33m patches the EN1 before the rains as Mozambique tenders the corridor
Mozambique set aside US$33m for emergency road repairs in three southern provinces. ANE expects EN1 concessionaires to be named between 28 September and 4 November.
Mozambique’s US$50m fuel facility: an August backstop for a US$424m quarterly bill
Council of Ministers Resolution 65/2026 of 3 August opens up to US$50m for fuel imports through PETROMOC. The second-quarter fuel bill was US$424.2m, so the line covers roughly eleven days.
Dollar long cap cut to 2% of equity: reference selling rate closes August at MT64.54
From 3 August 2026 banks may hold net long foreign-exchange positions of only 2% of equity, down from 20%; the reference selling rate closed August at 64.54 and the rand at 3.96 meticais.
Mozambique’s banks sold US$5.65bn of dollars by August 2026, US$80m less than they bought
Banks bought US$5.73bn and sold US$5.65bn of foreign currency to clients from January to August 2026. Fuel took half of large-buyer sales in the first half, and the card cap was halved.
August 2026: the reference mean twitched to MT63.95 as banks lost room to hold dollars
Banco de Moçambique’s August 2026 bulletins’ reference mean averaged MT63.91 but hit MT63.95 on 27 August, weeks after a notice cut banks’ long FX position limit from 20% to 2% of own funds.
Mozambique in August 2026: prices fall 0.28% again, yet Tete pays 10.71% more
Mozambique’s prices fell 0.28% in August 2026 and annual inflation eased to 6.45%. Tete remains at 10.71%. What real rates and regional spreads mean for a consumer business.
August 2026: Mozambique pays 8.5% on MT5.24bn of bonds issued to its own suppliers
OT-2026-S10 placed MT5.24bn at a fixed 8.5% to 2029 against supplier debt, as swap auctions on 6 August found takers for under 40% of the offer and a plan to halve domestic borrowing emerged.
August 2026 in view: six months of wallet data show volume up 51% but tickets down 21%
As August 2026 closes, the latest Banco de Moçambique wallet data cover January to June: 2,182 million transactions worth MT1.47tn. Monthly volume is 51% above 2025’s average, at a 21% smaller ticket.
Mozambique, August 2026: the real policy rate recovers to 2.8 points as prices fall
August 2026 inflation of 6.45% lifted the real MIMO rate to about 2.8 points from 1.8 in July. The 91-day Treasury bill eased to 12.22% and overnight rates stayed at 9.25%.
Mozambique’s wallets: 7.7% of first-half transactions paid for services, 1.5% of value
In the first half of 2026 service payments were 167.3m of 2,182m wallet transactions and MT21.7bn of MT1.47tn. Transfers took 53% of the count and 53% of the value.
Banco de Moçambique’s August 2026 liquidity: MT 58.9bn of interbank repo, all at 9.25%
In August 2026 the interbank repo series summed MT 58.9bn, against MT 20.0bn in June, with every trade at 9.25%. How the standing facilities and bank-to-bank lending set the effective stance.
Mozambique’s August 2026 external file: US$5.73bn bought, a fixed rate, a halved card cap
By late August the external file combined US$5.73bn of bank dollar purchases to date, a rate fixed near 63.91, a card cap cut to MT3m and June reserves of US$3.46bn. LNG is years from exporting.
One-year deposit rate falls to 3.52% in August 2026, 172 basis points below January
Banks paid an average 3.52% on one-year metical deposits in August 2026 against 5.24% in January, while loans cost 22.26%. The top rate paid fell to 7.23%, which sets the room to negotiate.
Mozambique’s August 2026 data pack: inflation eases to 6.45%, but Tete is at 10.71%
August 2026 brought a second month of falling prices, annual inflation of 6.45% and a 5.01% twelve-month average. The city split and the year-end arithmetic show what the number leaves out.
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