News Reports 2017

News reports & Clippings 2017 (Numbers 352-397) 
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• Mozambique 397 - 14 December 2017 - IMF thumbs down
• Mozambique 396 - 13 December 2017 - new ministers; China, Blackwater & Ematum; HCB & EDM 3
• Mozambique 395 - 13 December 2017 - 4 ministers dismissed; fertilizer lost opportunity; HCB & EDM 2
• Mozambique 394 - 10 December 2017 - trying to placate the IMF; rains; HCB & EDM 1
• Mozambique 393 - 4 December 2017 - no debt payments; other economic news
• Mozambique 392 - 13 November 2017 - FBI, export data, 3 new deputy ministers, Mauritius based companeis
• Mozambique 391 - 4 November 2017 - Report "Women & drought in southern Mozmbique", AidData table of official Chinese projects 2000-2014.
• Mozambique 390 - 30 October 2017 - Crisis will continue; Security heads changed; Prosecutor murder trial
• Mozambique 389 - 23 October 2017 - Chupa sangue (vampire), Sasol, corruption
• Mozambique 388 - 19 October 2017 - IMF - no programme in 2018; violence - Nampula major, Mocimboa da Praia Islamist attack
• Mozambique 387 - 11 October 2017 - Special report on social protection & cash transfers
• Mozambique 386 - 2 October 2017 - Frelimo Congress - now Political Commission and Central Committee (full list); pigeon pea peasant production crisis
• Mozambique 385 - 28 September 2017 - Nyusi on army, peace, corruption; comments
• Mozambique 384 - 17 September 2017 - IMF says no, World Bank declares Moz 'fragile', N Korea arms, comments.

• Full Kroll report (80 Mb!):
• Mozambique 383 - 7 September 2017 - Kroll 3 - Kroll points fingers at Finance Ministry, Credit Suisse & Palomar
• Mozambique 382 - 4 September 2017 - Kroll 2 - A tale of misconduct, incompetence and secrecy - no one has clean hands
• Mozambique 381 - 26 August 2017 - Kroll 1 - Call for UK action on Credit Suisse

• Mozambique 380 - 31 July 2017 - Donor thumbs down on Kroll audit tightens the screws; corruption survey

Papers referred to:

• Mozambique should not pay the secret debt in English - and in Portuguese
• Some of our 2016-17 corruption articles plus the 2001 reports on the banking crisis and the 2010 decision not to prosecute.

• Mozambique 379 - 21 July 2017 - IMF takes hard line on Kroll
• Mozambique 378 - 20 July 2017 - IMF mission thumbs down
• Mozambique 377 - 17 July 2017 - Agriculture - big projects, Portucel, Zimbabwe
• Mozambique 376 - 9 July 2017 - troops still in Gorongosa, inequality underestimated, Kroll
• Mozambique 375 - 5 July 2017 - Debt (FT, IMF); Renamo says no withdrawal
• Mozambique 374 - 2 July 2017 - Foot-dragging on peace; responses to Kroll
• Mozambique 373 - 24 June 2017 - Kroll report - Kroll Executive summary
• Mozambique 372 - 2 June 2017 - Bank governor hits development policy & lack of support for small commercial farmers; London court ruling on debt
• Mozambique 371 - 4 May 2017 - indefinite cease fire; debt guarantee confirmed
• Mozambique 370 - 2 May 2017 - parliament accepts and legalizes secret debt; arrest warrent for Nini Satar
• Mozambique 369 - 24 April 2017 - Government wage cuts; cleaning up after Guebuza; Attorney General highlights greed
• Mozambique 368 - 19 April 2017 - New minimum wages, IMF warning on debt. Minimum wages and exchange rates 1996-2017.
• Mozambique 367 - 17 April 2017 - Has government said it won't pay secret debt? Civil society debt statement - creditors irresponsible - in Portuguese and in English.
• Mozambique 366 - 10 April 2017 - Nyusi moves on timber and secret debt scandals; Kroll to see Guebuza bank accounts
• Mozambique 365 - 27 March 2017 - Kroll extended again, to 28 April; debt service not paid; capital gains tax on ENI sale set at $350 mn. Tax authority statement. Procuradoria-Geral statement on Kroll Ext 2.
• Mozambique 364 - 12 March 2015 - ExxonMobil buys half of ENI's part of Area 4 gas for $2.8 bn
• Mozambique 363 - 6 March 2017 - cease fire extended to 4 May; debt
• Mozambique 362 - 1 March 2017 - Won't pay debt, peace talks & 'contact group', IMF & inequality
• Mozambique 361 - 22 February 2017 - Maputo water, Lagarde model, corruption, cyclone, Josina Machel, Academic studies & book reviews
• Mozambique 360 - 14 February 2017 - Kroll extended, advisors repleace mediators Procuradoria-Geral statement on Kroll
• Mozambique 359 - 13 February 2017 - special report of debt - English summary of parliamentary debr report, administrative tribunal, and chronology.
• Mozambique 358 - 5 February 2017 - peace talks advance; sugar mega-project fails
• Mozambique 357 - 1 February 2017 - new SISE head; gas contracts
• Mozambique 356 - 29 January 2017 - debt: IMF, negotiations comment - Turkey - violence against women
• Mozambique 355 - 22 January 2017 - debt: no pay, SEC, different kinds of loans - corruption - flood
• Mozambique 354 - 11 January 2017 - debt feasibility, kidnap investigation, ProSavana, banks
• Mozambique 353 - 8 January - Evidence from abroad: Lagarde, US election, bribes
• Mozambique 352 - 3 January 2017 - Cease fire extended

• News Reports & Clippings 2016