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Eric Morier-Genoud
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Professor of African History | Queen's University Belfast | Interested in Politics, Religion, Armed conflicts, jihad, peace, Africa, Mozambique, Portuguese-speaking world, Switzerland, missionaries. Webpage: https://qub.academia.edu/EricMorierGenoud
CONCLUSION? Aside the issue of the reliability of "data", trade between Mozambique and the United Arab Emirates has only increased threefold since 2018 🫤
January 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Goind to the source (the United Nations Comtrade database), one finds that Mozambique exported $179 mio to UAE in in 2024 and that the data for UAE import from MZ is not available
January 14, 2026 at 8:10 AM
The latter graph is from TRADING ECONOMICS which doesn't correspond to the former data -- $142 mio export vs $670 mio. To make it worse, Trading Economics says in one page that MZ exported to UAE $179.51 mio and in another page that UAE Imported $1.01 Billion from from MZ...
January 14, 2026 at 8:04 AM
This is the summary of Mozambique's export to the UAE
up to 2024. 78% of the export in 2024 was "Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products"
January 14, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Here is a summary of economic relations in $ (2023)

h/t Observatory of Economic Complexity
January 14, 2026 at 7:47 AM
December 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM