Drug and firearms law in Mozambique: statutes on record and in force

Mozambique, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2008. It is not named in either FATF list. The dates below are the depositary's; the instruments, where any are named, are the register's.

Tile cartogram of the covered jurisdictions with Mozambique picked out — Fig. — Mozambique in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Mozambique is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1998 and the most recent from 2008.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	8 Jun 1998	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	20 Sep 2006	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	9 Apr 2008	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	20 Sep 2006	Chapter XVIII-12-c

What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Mozambique: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

Mozambique's national implementing legislation is not yet confirmed against a citable national register. The convention and monitoring records above carry named sources and check dates; this field does not, so it states nothing rather than something unsourced.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Mozambique, each confirmed on Mozambique's own government domain. Which body holds a mandate matters in practice: a customs administration can stop a consignment at the frontier, a police service can investigate inland, and only a prosecuting authority can bring the charge.

Body	Function	Confirmed on
Direcção Geral das Alfândegas	customs and border control	at.gov.mz

Ratification sequence

How a state assembled its treaty position is itself a fact about the position. Mozambique came to these instruments over 10 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1998 and ending with the UNCAC in 2008. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 5 years, the longest the 1988 Convention at 10.

Mozambique became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1998, 10 years after it was adopted — slower than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.

The gaps between those dates are the part worth reading. For the 8 years between 1998 and 2006, Mozambique was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the Firearms Protocol or the UNCAC. The practical effect is on what could be charged, and on what could be confiscated, in the years before the later instruments arrived.

On coverage, Mozambique is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. The Africa cohort runs to 53 records, 6 of them currently listed for increased monitoring.

Position on the trafficking corridors

Mozambique sits on the southern route, one of the six corridors profiled here. The corridor is only as traceable as its weakest documented leg, and this is the documentation for this one.

The southern route — 7 jurisdictions, carrying heroin. The legs either side of Mozambique in the reporting are Tanzania and Mauritius. Across the corridor as a whole, 5 of the 7 legs are party to all four instruments, 1 sit outside the Firearms Protocol, 2 carry no confirmed national instrument , and 1 is under increased monitoring. Mozambique carries one of those gaps. The corridor profile carries the leg-by-leg comparison.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Mozambique is recorded as Not listed . A jurisdiction can enter or leave either list at any plenary, so this line is dated rather than settled. The mechanics of listing and delisting are on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Mozambique

Which drug-control conventions has Mozambique ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 8 Jun 1998, the UNTOC on 20 Sep 2006, the UNCAC on 9 Apr 2008, the Firearms Protocol on 20 Sep 2006.

Is Mozambique on the FATF grey list?

No. Mozambique appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.

What national drug legislation is on record for Mozambique?

None confirmed against a citable national register yet. The dates and listing status on this page are sourced; this field is not, so it stays empty.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

None yet, which is why no instrument is named. The registers searched for Mozambique were the UNODC legal library, which files legislation by jurisdiction, and the national government and parliamentary hosts reachable under its own country-code domain. Neither produced a document that identifies an instrument, so this record cites none.

What is source tier B, and why is this record in it?

Tier B means the treaty record is confirmed at the depositary but no national instrument has been confirmed against a citable register. It is a statement about this dataset's sourcing, not about Mozambique's statute book, which may well contain instruments that are simply not published where they can be cited from.

Why does the ratification date matter?

The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Mozambique's earliest of these commitments dates from 1998, its most recent from 2008; the gap between them is a rough measure of how long the framework took to assemble.

Sources

Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.