Chapo calls for removal of barriers between Mozambique and Eswatini

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Chapo calls for removal of barriers between Mozambique and Eswatini

5:27 CAT | 10 Jun 2025

Photo: Presidency

Mozambican President Daniel Chapo has called for the removal of bureaucratic barriers between Mozambique and Eswatini in order to boost and ease bilateral economic relations, because “barriers prevent both countries from developing faster.”

According to Chapo, who was speaking during a business meeting in Mbabane, which marked the start of his visit to the neighbouring country on Monday, relations between Mozambique and Eswatini should be centred on regional integration, mutual investment and strengthening the private sector as an engine of growth.

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He stressed the need to remove barriers to trade in both countries, as a way of attracting investment to strategic sectors, including energy, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure.

“Our responsibility, as the public sector, is to facilitate business, to unblock everything that blocks business, both in Mozambique and in Eswatini”, he said.

According to Chapo, Mozambique’s vast energy potential, with resources such as natural gas, rivers, sun and wind, is capable of meeting the current regional challenges, especially in the supply of electricity. He also pointed to tourism, agriculture, infrastructure and digitalization as crucial for attracting investment and generating jobs.

“We can’t look at the energy crisis as a fatality, but as an opportunity to do business”, he declared. “Industrialization of the African continent is essential to break economic dependence on foreign countries. Africa today is the source of raw materials, all of which are processed outside the continent. We have to work to reverse this scenario”.

Source: AIM