Tourists flooded over the border from South Africa. In 2018, London-based academic and former international correspondent in Mozambique Joseph Hanlon published a paper called ‘The Uberization of Mozambique’s heroin trade’. In it, he estimated some $600m-800m of heroin transited through Mozambique annually, with $100m used to bribe members of Frelimo. READ MORE Mozambique needs gains in security and corruption in north to develop LNGBoatloads of cashIt is not just drugs. And as Louw-Vaudran of the Institute for Security Studies points out: “South Africa is on the hook”.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 10, 2021 13:06 UTC