Mozambique’s visitor economy: Inhambane keeps guests 6.6 nights, Maputo city 1.1
The latest INE accommodation data shows where visitor spending stays, and what October's peak-season evidence must test. Mozambique's hotels and lodges received 2,133,138 guests in 2025 and logged 5,571,933 overnight stays, according to Instituto Nacional de...
Government Grants One-Week Grace for Expired Vehicle Licences
A licence is meant to be a routine transaction, not a test of a citizen's patience. Yet over the Easter season many Batswana found that the simple act of renewing an expired vehicle licence had become a queue against a clock, as slow online systems at the...
Press Play: How MTN One TV Bets on Streaming Across Africa
The streaming wars were written as a story about content budgets, and on that measure no African operator can outspend the global platforms. The contest MTN has chosen to enter is a different one: not who owns the most content, but who controls how Africans pay for...
Butchers Back FMD Ban but Warn Extended Suspension Threatens Survival
The hardest position in any crisis is to agree with the measure that is hurting you. Botswana's small butchers have been put in exactly that position by the foot-and-mouth disease response — and their answer is worth attention, because it separates short-term pain...
Mocuba’s MT 500.9m Parliamentary City: who builds it, and who pays for it afterwards
A 19 October construction start is scheduled; the contractor is not yet named, and the running costs are not yet budgeted. The Parliamentary City of Mocuba in Zambézia is scheduled to start construction on 19 October 2026, with about 500.9 million meticais (about €6.7...
August 2026: individuals buy MT1.77bn of bills, and 87% of the year’s bond swaps are done
Individuals bought MT1.77bn of Treasury bills from Banco de Moçambique in August 2026, twice July’s sum, while MT39.77bn of the planned MT45.7bn of bond swaps had been completed by 6 August.
August 2026: PMI at 51.9 with construction leading, as fuel queues return to Matola
Mozambique’s PMI rose to 51.9 in August on construction-led output and the best new orders since 2023, while fuel queues returned and fuel absorbed half the dollars sold in the first half.
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.
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