Due to interests linked to FRELIMO, which stifle competition, the award of new licences has been suspended and stuck in the state's bureaucracy. This situation has been changing in the face of the need of the government to compensate for the delays of the Liquefied Natural Gas project in Palma – in particular, the Area 1 project led by TotalEnergies – with the licensing of new extractive investments, source of tax revenues. READ MORE