There are two Pemba airports, about 850 kilometres apart on the same coast, and both are too small for what is now being asked of them. Pemba, Mozambique, code POL, is the front door of a gas province that TotalEnergies reopened in January 2026. Pemba Island, Zanzibar, code PMA…
About 250 kilometres inland from Pemba, near the town of Balama, an Australian company mines what it calls the largest high-quality graphite resource…
For most people, Pemba is reached by air, and in the current war that's the only sensible way. Pemba Airport, code POL, a few kilometres from the…
Mocímboa da Praia is where Cabo Delgado's war started, on 5 October 2017, with a pre-dawn attack on the town's police stations (the insurgency…
Pemba Bay is one of the great natural harbours of the Indian Ocean coast: a deep, sheltered bay several kilometres across, opening to the sea through…
