Southern Africa Integration Push: President Cyril Ramaphosa used South Africa’s incoming SADC chair to argue for a common market that cuts border delays, harmonises customs and helps the region build industries together, as intra-SADC trade remains stuck at about 20% and manufacturing loses ground. SADC Summit Security & Migration Friction: Durban is on alert for an anti-immigrant march targeting leaders over migration policy, with South Africa urging SADC states to ratify the Protocol on the Facilitation of Movement of Persons. Mozambique Trade & Border Logistics: Mozambique’s Machipanda border modernization (One-Stop Border Post) is budgeted at $37.2m, aiming to start work next October and finish by 2029 to reduce heavy-vehicle queues on the Beira Corridor. Health & Regulation: ANARME seized unlabeled medicines and substances from a Maputo clinic, with samples sent for lab analysis amid concerns over unregulated products. Critical Minerals Processing: NeoTerra reported 85% gallium extraction from initial hydrometallurgy testing at Monte Muambe, signalling early progress beyond raw-material exports. Regional Energy Context: An energy specialist warned against treating Mozambique gas supply shortfalls and South Africa’s coal retirements as one problem, saying conflating them risks sub-optimal outcomes for industrial gas pricing. Equipment for Infrastructure & Mining: XCMG says it has accelerated deliveries in Mozambique, including road construction solutions and a fully electric mining excavator.