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The Case for Sharing Africa’s New Minerals Wealth With All Africans
In country after country in Sub-Saharan Africa, new discoveries of oil, natural gas and mineral deposits have been making headlines every other week it seems. When Ghana’s Jubilee oil field hits peak...
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Flooding and a Changing Climate in Mozambique
Here in Mozambique, the rainy season has brought disaster for as many as 110,000 people living in the Limpopo Valley, as surging water over recent days has flooded their crops, capsized their towns and...
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Helping Africa win better deals for its minerals
With oil in Niger and Uganda, natural gas in Mozambique and Tanzania, iron ore in Guinea and Sierra Leone―African countries are increasingly finding rich new deposits of oil, gas, or minerals and just...
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Better Disease Surveillance is part of the Great Lakes Peace Dividend
Beside the great Lake Kivu, beneath the shadow of an enormous volcano, the Rwanda-DRC border divides the neighboring cities of Gisenyi and Goma. As the day begins, the predominant impression is one of...
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Why I care about climate change in Mozambique
Some of the most productive areas along the lower Limpopo in Gaza Province Whenever I drive along the EN1 North-South highway that cuts across Mozambique, I notice with satisfaction the long lines of...
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Fighting Deforestation in the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa
Miombo trees in the Reserva Nacional do Gilé, Zambézia Province. Photo by Andrea Borgarello for the World Bank
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Mozambique: Communities give hope for resilient and sustainable forests
Coal production in Quirimbas National Park, Mozambique. Borgarello/World BankThis is the third blog in a serieson forest livelihoods in Africa. Every year on the International Day of Forests, we...
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Using a Rhino Mascot and School Sports to Raise Awareness on Wildlife...
Mozambique is mixing school sports with raising awareness of wildlife conservation. Photo Credit/copyright: National Festival of School Sporting Games, 2017. It’s not every day that one is welcomed to...
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Practicing what you preach: Mozambique’s natural resource management
The World Bank is supporting an increase in rural jobs and investment while promoting sustainable land management to conserve Mozambique’s natural wealth. Photo: Andrea Borgarello/World Bank As my...
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Sharing Paradise: Nature-Based Tourism in Mozambique
Aerial shot of Bazaruto's clear blue waters. Photo: Andre Aquino/World BankAn innovative World Bank project with a co-management agreement hopes to make conservation more equitable in one of...
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How Maputo is driving new forms of collaboration between citizens and city...
The true test is whether open data leads to improvements in public services. Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, celebrated its 130th anniversary in November. But that’s not its only milestone: This year,...
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Fishing for Profits
Cod in many guises from dry fish for export to Nigeria to selling collagen and oil elsewhere. Photo: Joao Moura/World BankFrom Mozambique’s white-sand beaches to Iceland’s snow-white ports, a...
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New leadership for community-based natural resource management in Mozambique
Rural communities throughout Mozambique rely on natural resources, such as clean waters and healthy fish stocks, forests and fertile soils, for their daily livelihoods. World Bank Night had descended...
View ArticleBehind the lens: Capturing the story of Niassa's elephant defenders
I had already spent a few days with Niassa National Reserve rangers in Mozambique, patrolling the area by 4x4 on dirt roads, and taking long walks in the middle of the bush on an almost silent...
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Across Africa, disaster risk finance is putting a resilient future within reach
The Africa Disaster Risk Financing Initiative supports agriculture insurance programs which unlock critical assess to credit for low-income farmers in Kenya, as well as in Uganda and Rwanda. Photo...
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Creating opportunities for a new forestry economy in Mozambique
With natural forests covering 43% of the country, forests are a source of employment, income, and livelihoods in Mozambique’s rural areas. Photo: Andrea Borgarello/World Bank When I tell people that I...
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Helping women market traders in Mozambique unlock their sales potential
Photo: Daniel Jack/World Bank It’s 40 degrees Celsius and our skin is sticky. There is so much noise, people constantly moving, taxi drivers screaming directions, prices shouted, and sellers calling...
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