In 2005, the Government of Mozambique decided to withdraw the award of the Chifunde concession from the Alliance One. Which was formed out of a merger between the US-based companies Dimon and Stancom, both of whom held concessions in the Mozambican provinces of Niassa, Tete and Manica International observers find the government's decision to switch the concession from Dimon to MLT illegal, since it violates existing investment agreements signed by the Government. According to Government's officials, the reason is simply clear. The government wants tobacco processing to happen in Mozambique, and so urged all the concessionary companies to build processing plants. Adding that only MLT responded, and has built the second largest processing plant in Africa in Tete City. This explains that: its reward was the Chifunde concession (quoted from Savana Newspaper of May 2006).
The general policy framework of foreign direct investments (FDI) on the African Continent has considerably improved during recent years, a trend that is continuing in many countries. However, the environment for foreign investments protection in Africa is still inadequate to attract high quality and efficiency-seeking investments and the incentive framework continues to suffer from a number of limitations. The legal, business and economic environment for FDI in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and the protection of international foreign investments are regulated at various levels, by international agreements / treaties, regional agreements and national codes or legislations. The domestication of international agreements / treaties as well as regional agreements into national legal systems and their subsequent enforcement by individual states require specific procedures of ratification and implementation.
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