On 8 October 2026, H.E. Mr. Bancha Yuenyongchongcharoen, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand in Maputo, paid a courtesy call on and held discussions with Mr. Razaque Manhique, Mayor of Maputo. The meeting was also attended, on the Thai side, by Ms. Suchanaree Taranatham, Counsellor of the Royal Thai Embassy, and, on the Maputo side, by Ms. Irene Tomás Boane, Director of the International Relations Office of the Maputo Municipal Council, and Mr. Celso Simão Fulano, Administrator of KaTembe District — the district to which the Maputo authorities have built the longest suspension bridge in Africa, across Maputo Bay, to pioneer the development of a new city on the opposite shore of the capital.