Date: 2025-07-02 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00003014
Country ... Mozambique
Coal to fuel economic progress
Mozambique's mixed blessing ... Rich coal find promises to reverse fortunes of African nation once ranked as world's poorest ... Doubts over equality in Mozambique's coal boom
COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
Mozambique's mixed blessing Rich coal find promises to reverse fortunes of African nation once ranked as world's poorest. ... Doubts over equality in Mozambique's coal boom
A rich coal find in Mozambique is expected to bring dramatic economic changes to the East African nation, once ranked as the poorest in the world.
Mining has started in the northwest of the country, fuelled by demand from China and India.
But the new industry brings risks as well as opportunities, as Barnaby Phillips reports from Tete. Source: Aljazeera
A rich coal find in Mozambique is expected to bring dramatic economic changes to the African nation once ranked as the poorest in the world. Mining has started in the north-west of the country , fuelled by demand from China and India. But the new industry brings risks as well as opportunities, as Barnaby Phillips reports from Tete.