The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, considered, this Friday, Zimbabwe a "natural ally" of Mozambique in new projects. The statement was expressed during a visit by his Zimbabwean counterpart, Emmerson Mnangagwa.

"Collective management with Zimbabwe is inevitable, it is a natural ally," Nyusi said of a joint water resource management venture. But he also referred to other projects he has with the neighboring country.

The two countries share a long stretch of border and an economic corridor connecting Harare with the port of Beira, central to Zimbabwe's foreign trade.

Emmerson Mnangagwa made a one-day visit to Mozambique, staying in the city of Beira, where together with Filipe Nyusi inaugurated a set of locomotives and carriages supplied by India, part of which will link the two countries.

A ceremony with calls from both sides for the involvement of entrepreneurs on both sides of the border in joint investments, taking advantage of the transport corridor that runs from the port of Beira to the border of Machipanda and then on to Harare, creating "synergies" that "improve the business environment," Nyusi said.

Nyusi considered that the two countries can still strengthen bilateral cooperation through electricity supply, agriculture, and projects under consideration in the water resources management sector.

Nyusi also gave the example of a fertilizer factory in Mozambique that could be operated and managed jointly - considering that financiers of this type of project "more readily accept integrated investments," in this case, bringing the two countries together.