Air Transport: Congo and Mozambique Consider Revitalizing Their Agreements
A delegation of Mozambican experts, led by the Secretary of State for Transport, Chinguane MABOTE, was received on October 6, 2026, in Brazzaville by the Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation, and Merchant Marine, Mr. Josué Rodrigue NGOUONIMBA. The discussions focused on revitalizing the agreements regarding air transport between the Republic of Congo and the Republic of Mozambique.
Arriving to participate in the Joint Commission on Cooperation between the Republic of Congo and the Republic of Mozambique, the Mozambican Secretary of State for Transport, Chinguane MABOTE, expressed to the Congolese Minister of Transport his country’s desire to reinvigorate its agreements with Congo in the transport sector, especially in air connectivity between Congo and Mozambique. According to him, “It is very important to have an air route between Brazzaville and Maputo. This will allow our community, which is strongly established in your country, to move freely without difficulties, rather than making detours by first passing through certain African capitals before arriving in Brazzaville,” he said, having personally experienced the challenges of the Brazzaville-Maputo route.
This ambition is even more justified since the last cooperation agreements between the Republic of Congo and the Republic of Mozambique were signed in 1975, during the presidencies of Marien NGOUABI and Samora Moises MACHEL.
Moreover, air transport is not the only sector through which Congo and Mozambique aim to revitalize their cooperation. On the sidelines of the official visit to the Republic of Congo of His Excellency Daniel Francisco CHAPO, President of Mozambique, from October 6 to 7, 2026, ten (10) cooperation agreements were signed between Congo and Mozambique in several fields, including Merchant Marine. A strategic sector for the economic development of the two countries, Chinguane MABOTE welcomed the Mozambican delegation’s opportunity to learn from Congo’s experience in multimodal transport. “This agreement will allow both countries to intensify their commercial exchanges,” he said.
For his part, Minister NGOUONIMBA appreciated the initiative taken by the Mozambican side and expressed his willingness to cooperate, hoping that both parties could implement the cooperation agreement between the two countries as soon as possible to meet the commitments made by Presidents Denis SASSOU NGUESSO of Congo and Daniel Francisco CHAPO of Mozambique.
