Mozambique and Tanzania to set up Joint Economic Commission

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Mozambique and Tanzania to set up Joint Economic Commission

5:01 CAT | 09 May 2025

Photo: AIM

The Mozambican and Tanzanian governments have decided to set up a Joint Economic Commission, Mozambican President Daniel Chapo announced on Thursday, at a press conference in Dar es Salaam, on the first day of a three day state visit to Tanzania.

A one-stop border post will be set up between the two countries, he promised, and cross-border trade will be promoted. The two countries will also exchange experiences in managing industrial parks and Special Economic Zones.

“We think that cooperation in the maritime area, and port security, are important and we shall also work on this matter”, Chapo said. The airlines of the two countries would also cooperate with flights between Maputo and Dar es Salaam, but also linking Dar es Salaam to the northern Mozambican city of Pemba.

New areas of cooperation included “the blue economy”, Chapo said. On Friday, he would visit Zanzibar “where we shall swap experiences about tourism and the blue economy. Our two countries are both bathed by the ocean, and there is a great deal of wealth in the sea. It is important that there should be an exchange of experience between our countries”.

He also pledged continuing cooperation in agriculture and mining. The political relations between Mozambique and Tanzania “are excellent and extraordinary”, Chapo stressed, as were their relations in defence and security.

At the end of official talks between delegations headed by Chapo and by his Tanzanian counterpart, Samia Sulu Hassan, five agreements and memorandums of understanding were signed.

One concerns the exchange of students between Mozambican and Tanzanian higher education institutions, and a second concerns establishing the one-stop border post at Negomano, on the Mozambican side of the frontier, and Mtambaswala on the Tanzanian side.

There are memorandums of understanding between the Mozambican and Tanzanian public broadcasting stations, and on controlling the quality of medicines.

A further agreement allows the exchange of prisoners between the two countries (so that, for example, Mozambicans sentenced by Tanzanian courts can serve their sentences in Mozambique).

Chapo stressed the importance of establishing an association of cashew producing countries. Cashew nuts are an important export crop for both Mozambique and Tanzania.

He recalled that it was in Tanzania, in 1962, that Mozambican nationalist movements came together to form the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo). With Tanzanian support, Frelimo was able to lead the country to independence, proclaimed by the country’s first President, Samora Nachel, on 25 June 1975.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Mozambican independence, a symbolic “flame of national unity” is being carried the length and breadth of the country. It will enter Maputo city on 25 June, where Samia Sulu Hassan, is one of the foreign leaders invited to the celebrations.

Source: AIM