All news on the topic: Mozambique

Mozambican soldiers have been accused of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Cabo Delgado, while staff working on TotalEnergies’ LNG project allegedly coerced women into sex, according to interviews and an unpublished UN report obtained by Forbidden Stories.

Home to a proliferation of mega-projects by major oil and gas companies, it is also the scene of a conflict that has already claimed more than 6,000 lives and displaced over a million people, as the Mozambican state battles insurgents from the Islamic State-affiliated Al-Shabab. It is the fifth-poorest country in the world.

Dozens of opposition members and journalists have been abducted or killed in Mozambique since the 2024 general elections.

The factory that produces the most pollution in France is using more coal than ever. In August 2025, ArcelorMittal Dunkirk took delivery of several thousand tonnes of coal from an extremely toxic mine in Mozambique.

The office of the Swiss attorney general announced on Monday that it charged a compliance officer employed by the former bank Credit Suisse SA, now part of UBS SA, with money laundering.

When Patrick Pouyanné decided to invest billions in a massive natural gas field located in a distant warzone, he made the decision by himself during a single dinner with the CEO of a competing energy company.

Manuel Chang was sentenced to 102 months in prison for his part in stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, which were intended to rebuild Mozambique’s maritime and shipping industries.