Mozambique

And of course, as we've been talking about foreign direct investment into the country, it's now Bhutan's turn to try and get that as well.

Then when it comes to Oman, It's interesting that the Sultan was just in the country not too long ago, but we already have petrol that came through the port of Mozambique that's already arrived in the country.

Just to give you context, Botswana is a landlocked country.

So a landlocked country, we do not have a port, but we do have agreements as being part of SADC with our neighbors.

And it's most of it has been coming through the Republic of South Africa.

But what the current government is doing now is saying that we need to have options, options in terms of how much we spend, but options also in terms of the ports that we use.

So we've essentially seen that when Mozambique's president was in the country, there was an agreement that may we use your port for an agreement that we've made with Oman.

And this is now the president's attempt to try and give us options because options, you can always compare prices, but you can also have a stronger negotiating

plus the kingdom of Enki, the Abzu, has been found due to satellite technology.

We know that there was an Anunnaki city bigger than Los Angeles and San Francisco put together down at South Africa and today's Mozambique.

I mean, you can see all the outlines of it that go back to over 200,000 years ago.

Yeah, the LIDAR discoveries.

your brand is spreading you are having a lot of people that are you are changing just just pray in tongues let's end just pray in tongues please just pray a lot in tongues just pray in tongues just pray in tongues we can't i want to hear somebody's voice you can't meet yourself you want to meet ourselves just pray in tongues okay just receive us pray in tongues Yes.

God bless Miss Ludovina in Mozambique.

Yes, Lord.

God bless you.

I've learned that when a system, when a space or society or community truly cares about, I mean, I think one of the things that I would say I wish the world can truly learn from the best good and promising practices that the disability community can bring forward when it comes to innovation.

I wish we can see those stories, like you said, like the farmers with disabilities in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the entrepreneurs out of Malaysia, the Maybic Foundation, the You know, there's an amazing port authority company in Mozambique that has amazing practice in terms of inclusive employment.

All of these different things, I think we need to learn from.

We need to kind of bring able to bring forward.

And I really only have the kind of historical background knowledge on like two of those things, you know? And so to kind of fill in those gaps, I think was really interesting.

I mean, one of the questions I'm going to ask at the end of this episode is, what the hell happened in Mozambique? You know, like, there's a lot of blank space in my mind for Africa still.

Yeah.

So that I really enjoyed.

Okay, there you go.

Yes.

I will also shout out again, I mentioned him briefly when I was talking about Mozambique, but on 14, Samora Michelle, or Markel, sorry, I don't know.

He says, for the nation to live, the tribe must die.

Here's the next one.

Mozambique.

Okay, so we have Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, or Mozambique.

Where would you like to go? I'll do a very quick poll.

Unofficial poll.

I'm going to focus to you.

Papua New Guinea? All right.

Mozambique? Papua? I have two Papuas and a Mozambique.

Yeah.

They did Mozambique.

I like this.

It's simpler.

In Somalia, Al-Shabaab survives not because their ideology is compelling, but because our governance structures have left vacuums that they can exploit.

In Cabo Delgado, Mozambique's massive gas wealth sits offshore, while onshore local youth see that wealth not as a national dividend, but as another catalyst for their marginalization.

And in the Sahel, which has absorbed more than half of Africa's conflict fatalities for four straight years, we face the agonizing reality of political estrangement.

The fracture between ECOWAS and the alliance of Sahel states has weakened the very collective security architecture our forebears labored to build.

But, you know, one of the jobs I really enjoyed doing, I taught a class at Georgetown while I was waiting.

I was nominated to be ambassador to Mozambique.

And I created a capstone course for the grad school program there.

It's due for the study of diplomacy.