Mozambique: ADIN holds Conference on Infrastructuring and Human Settlements
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Mozambique is to export sugar to Rwanda and is looking to maximise the business, taking into account the country’s volume of production and potential. Ten thousand tons will be exported in the first phase.
Currently, Mozambique produces more than 400,000 tons of sugar – about twice what the country domestic needs – and has the potential to increase production still further.
The sugar deal is one of the gains of a three-day state visit by President Nyusi to Rwanda at the invitation of his counterpart, Paul Kagame, and is part of the Mozambican head of state’s strategic vision within the framework of realistic economic diplomacy aimed at generating a visible impact on the life of the population.
Describing the visit as productive, Nyusi said there was potential for Mozambique to export other agricultural products, such as corn, soybeans, beans and vegetables, to Rwanda, as well as natural resources such as coal.
President Paul Kagame announced at the end of the talks that Rwanda would open an embassy in Mozambique soon.
Mozambique has already appointed a member of the visiting presidential delegation its diplomatic representative to Rwanda, and the two countries will soon have reciprocal air links.
President Nyusi said diplomatic links, air links, visa exemption for holders of diplomatic and service passports, and regular meetings of the Permanent Joint Committee, which met for the first time in Kigali, would improve the environment for business and trade.
“We have moved from intention to action,” President Nyusi said, noting that stable political power, reconciliation, patriotism and work culture favoured development.
Highlights of the visit were President Nyusi’s meeting with his Rwandan counterpart, talks between the government delegations, a business forum involving Mozambican and Rwandese entrepreneurs and visits to the Special Economic Zone and a fortified food factory.
Nyusi also visited the Genocide Memorial in Kigali, the King’s Palace Museum in Nyanza district, and the Single Border Post in Rubavu on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the busiest in the region with more than 50,000 transits per day.
The Mozambican head of state’s visit is followed Sunday and today by those of the president of China and the prime minister of India, also to exchange experiences.
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