Britain wants a share of the oil and gas business in Mozambique. The Mozambican and British governments are formulating a “high level partnership” in areas such as oil and natural gas, agriculture and the financial sector, according to Mozambican deputy foreign minister Henrique Banze. He was speaking at a joint press conference with the British under-secretary of state for Africa, Mark Simmonds, who in September was on his third visit to Mozambique in the space of a year. According to Simmonds, the idea of a high-level partnership was first discussed during the visit by Mozambican president Armando Guebuza to the Scottish city of Aberdeen in July, where he attended an international conference on infrastructures for the oil and gas industry in Mozambique
