The Mozambican government is clamping down on South African tourism property investors in various regions along their coastline.
In recent weeks many South Africans had to either stop operating established tourism resorts or cancel developments that are already in process. Most recently two South Africans in Bilene north of Maputo have been forced to vacate the property they obtained from government.
Following a civil war which lasted more than 30 years, Mozambique was battered economically and socially. In order to revive its economy, foreign investment, especially in tourism was welcomed by Mozambican government.
Many South African business operators then invested in the Mozambican tourism industry. Since then some of them have been running successful operations. Almost 100km south of Xai Xai in Bilene some South Africans have not been so lucky. After leaving behind a South African lifestyle Henk Brutten struggled for three years’ to obtain all legal property rights to nine hectares of land. Now government is forcing him to evacuate.
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The United States will provide an additional 73,500 tons of food aid to southern Africa enough to feed more than five million people for one month, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said Wednesday.
According to a news release from the US embassy here, US AID hasdecided to send more food based on the concern that poor harvest and worsening economic conditions will lead to widespread hunger in countries such as Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Additional supplies of bulgur wheat, cornmeal, sorghum, peas, beans and vegetable oil
Federal Minister for Tourism Dr G.G Jamal has said that it is a positive sign for the Tourism Industry that foreign investors have shown interest to invest in tourism sector.
In a statement Federal Minister for Tourism Dr G.G Jamal said that the foreign investors who have shown interests are Jaffery International Group of UK, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
The Minister stated that coming of foreign investors would not give boost to tourism industry but will also generate employment.
"International expertise will come to Pakistan and will provide better facilities to tourists", he said.
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Mozambique hopes to receive more tourists, but the southern African country still aims for "low density" tourism to prevent pressure on natural resources, Tourism Minister Fernando Sumbana has said.
The minister made the remarks during a meeting on Monday with the media in the district of Namaacha, on the border with Swaziland, in a ceremony to launch the week of commemorations of World Tourism Day, to be celebrated on September 27.
He noted that an increase in the number of tourists is important because the revenue tourism brings in will improve the
A delegation of Malaysian investors led by Tan Sri Abd Rahim Mohamad Executive Chairman Eden Enterprise expressed their keen interest to invest in Pakistan in Energy, Tourism, Food & Beverage and other sectors on immediate basis.
The leader of the delegation informed this during a meeting with Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Federal Minister for Privatisation & Investment here on Thursday.
While appreciating the Malaysian investors interest Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Federal Minister for Privatisation & Investment said that Pakistan was open for investment in all sectors. He stated that Pakistan offered maximum incentives to the investors as compare to the
The Ministers of Tourism of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) opened Tuesday in Angola to debate development of tourism.
The three-day conference will focus on the discussion of tourism's role in consolidating co-operation among the eight countries of CPLP, namely Angola, Brazil, Portugal, Cape-Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor.
The CPLP ministers meeting will also be used to balance the results of the previous meeting, held in Portugal, which is intended to review points on "common action" among the countries of the community.
