Lisbon, May 8, 2025 (Lusa) - Mozambique and Tanzania on Thursday signed an agreement for the establishment of a One Stop Border Post between the two countries, whose aim is to make bilateral trade more flexible and facilitate the movement of people and goods.
The initiative represents the "operationalisation of a common desire between two brotherly countries and peoples," said the president of Mozambique, Daniel Chapo, after signing the agreement while on his first state visit to Tanzania. "As you know, we are brotherly peoples, with the same borders, we speak the same language and we end up having the same names and surnames."
On the Mozambican side, the border post will be set up in Negomano, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique; on the Tanzanian side it will be in Mtambaswala.
In addition to the agreement on the border post, the two countries signed another for the exchange of prisoners and also initialled four memorandums of understanding, including one for cooperation between state-owned Radio Mozambique (RM) and Radio Tanzania.
Mozambique and Tanzania also signed memorandums on the student exchange programme at higher education level, for cooperation in culture and others in the field of quality control of medicines.
Chapo said that the two countries would also move towards co-operation in the management of industrial parks, special economic zones and the promotion of partnerships between entrepreneurs from the two countries, as well as in the blue economy and agriculture.
"We think that co-operation in air transport between Mozambique Airlines and the Tanzanian company is very important to connect our capitals and cities," he added.
The president of Tanzania, Samia Sahulu Hassan, praised Mozambique's efforts to develop its economy, noting that the agreements and memorandums being signed are aimed at creating well-being for the people.
"In our talks we realised that our cooperation still leaves something to be desired in terms of trade and investment and we agreed to improve the environment for trade and investment by supporting small and medium-sized enterprises," he said, adding that the volume of trade should grow with the creation of the one-stop border post.
The president of Mozambique chose the country's neighbour to the north, Tanzania, for his first state visit since taking office on 15 January.
On 15 April, parliament's standing committee approved authorisation for Chapo to make a state visit to Tanzania from 7 to 9 May, in response to an invitation from his Tanzanian counterpart.
Tanzania is one of the countries that has been supporting Mozambique in the fight against the terrorist groups that have been operating since 2017 in Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country, close to its border, including with military personnel on the ground on the Mozambican side.
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