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Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:32:08 GMT
Insurgents Attack in Total's Concession Area
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Insurgents reached the gates of the Afungi LNG project on Friday 1 January. After a series of ever closer attacks, Total evacuated most of its staff from Afungi and Palma last week. Fighting continued yesterday...

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:18:05 GMT
Cyclone Chalane Raced Through, Doing Limited Harm
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Cyclone Chalane passed across Mozambique in just one day, 30 December, making landfall in Muanza, north of Beira, passing over Chimoio, and on to Zimbabwe. The storm killed seven people and affected 5,400 famil...

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 06:45:54 GMT
Health Minister Hopes Covid-19 Vaccines Will Arrive in May/June
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago expects that the country will receive one of the vaccines against the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease between May and June.

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 06:45:42 GMT
Covid-19 - Infections Hit New Record
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities reported on Sunday that the number of people diagnosed with the Covid-19 respiratory disease in the previous 24 hours - 341 - broke all records.

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:49:07 GMT
Total Confirms Partial Evacuation of Afungi
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambique LNG project, headed by the French oil and gas company Total, has opted to reduce its workforce in the Afungi Peninsula, Palma district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, where it is building gas liquefaction pla...

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 06:45:57 GMT
This Will Be 'Decisive Year' for Beating Terrorism
[AIM] Maputo -- 2021 will be "the decisive year" for defeating terrorism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, according to Maj-Gen Eugenio Mussa, the commander of the government forces in the province.

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 06:45:56 GMT
2021 Military Registration Begins
[AIM] Maputo -- Military registration for Mozambicans aged 18 and above began throughout the country on Monday and is scheduled to last until 28 February.

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:49:10 GMT
Covid-19 - Another Death and 174 New Cases
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday announced another death from the Covid-19 respiratory disease and 174 positive cases.

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:49:09 GMT
Police Find Lifeless Body On Costa Do Sol Beach
[AIM] Maputo -- One lifeless body, presumably drowned, was found on Maputo's Costa do Sol beach, on the first day of the New Year, according to a report on Saturday by the Maputo City Police Command.

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:43:11 GMT
French Energy Giant Total Pulls Staff From Mozambique Site Over Jihadist Threat
[RFI] French oil and gas multinational Total has evacuated employees from a major gas site in northern Mozambique after a string of jihadist attacks nearby.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:26:11 GMT
Cyclone Chalane Likely to Affect 1.2 Million Mozambicans
[AIM] Maputo -- At least 1.2 million people in the central Mozambican provinces of Sofala and Manica are likely to be affected by tropical cyclone Chalane, which since the early hours of Wednesday has been battering the city of Beira, causing strong ...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:26:00 GMT
Mozambique On the Cusp of an Energy Revolution
[CAJ News] Maputo, Mozambique -- AFTER years of struggling to generate enough energy for its domestic market, Mozambique is on the verge of an energy revolution.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:26:12 GMT
Covid-19 - 261 Recoveries, 62 New Cases and One Death
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported that a further 261 people have made a full recovery from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:26:11 GMT
Vietnamese Court Jails Man for Smuggling Rhino Horns From Mozambique
[AIM] Maputo -- A court in the Vietnamese city of Can Tho on Tuesday sentenced a Vietnamese citizen to 12 and a half years imprisonment for smuggling rhinoceros horns from Mozambique.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:26:09 GMT
Chalane Reaches Central Mozambique
[AIM] Maputo -- Cyclone Chalane made landfall on the central Mozambican coast, just north of the city of Beira, early on Wednesday morning.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:38:23 GMT
Displaced By Violence, Trying to Stay Alive in Mozambique
[MSF] Caroline Gaudron is the strategic support manager for MSF in Mozambique, focusing on the conflict in Cabo Delgado province. Here she describes the chaos and challenges for people trying to survive, having fled extreme violence in the province.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:22:29 GMT
Red Cross Officially Activates Anticipatory Actions Ahead of Cyclone Chalane in Mozambique
[IFRC] Forecast-based Action is a new form of Red Cross readiness and preparedness actions. It is governed by an 'Early Action Protocol', consisting of a preparedness phase with the strategic prepositioning of materials that are tailored to reduce th...

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:07:46 GMT
Mozambique Forces Kill 37 Insurgents in Cabo Delgado
[East African] Mozambique security and defence forces last week killed 37 terrorists and retrieved 21 firearms in Cabo Delgado province, north of the country.

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:24:32 GMT
Cyclone Chalane to Hit Beira
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Cyclone Chalane is moving west across the Mozambique Channel and is expected to reach Beira tomorrow morning (Wednesday 30 Dec) with winds up to 100 km/h, as the cyclone picks up heat and energy from the warm M...

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 07:24:57 GMT
Renamo Demands Investigation Into Matequenha's Death
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has called for a serious investigation into the murder of a former Renamo parliamentary deputy, Sofrimento Matequenha.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 07:24:49 GMT
Ins Warns Against 'Second Wave' of Covid-19
[AIM] Maputo -- The deputy director of Mozambique's National Health Institute (INS), Eduardo Samo Gudo, on Monday stressed the need to strengthen preventive measures against the Covid-19 respiratory disease, in order to avoid a "second wave" of infec...

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 07:24:48 GMT
Helath MInistry Calls For 'Scrupulous Observence' of Covid-19 Prevention Measures
[AIM] Maputo -- HEALTH MINISTRY CALLS FOR "SCRUPULOUS OBSERVANCE" OF COVID-19 PREVENTION MEASURES

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 07:24:33 GMT
Cyclone Chalane Heads for Mozambican Coast
[AIM] Maputo -- Tropical cyclone Chalane was located about half way between Madagascar and Mozambique on Tuesday morning, generating winds of 45 knots (83 kilometres an hour).

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:05:39 GMT
Nyusi Inaugurates New Bridge in Cabo Delgado
[AIM] Maputo -- Bilibiza (Mozambique), 28 Dec (AIM) - Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Monday inaugurated a 300 metre long metallic bridge over the Montepuez river in Bilibiza, in Quissanga district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:04:57 GMT
Two More Covid-19 Deaths and 103 New Cases Reported
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported the deaths of two more people from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:04:47 GMT
Former Renamo Deputy Found Murdered
[AIM] Maputo -- The body of Sofrimento Matequenha, a former parliamentary deputy for Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has been found in the Pindanganga region of Gondola district, in the central province of Manica, according to a Sunday re...

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:04:44 GMT
Cyclone Chalane in Mozambique Channel
[AIM] Maputo -- Tropical cyclone Chalane entered the Mozambique Channel on Monday morning, after crossing Madagascar.

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:03:55 GMT
Chalane Heads for Mozambique Channel
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Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:15:17 GMT
Cyclone Over Madagascar, Heading Towards Beira
[AIM] Maputo -- Tropical cyclone Chalane hit the east coast of Madagascar on Saturday, and is now forecast to follow a course that will take it across the Mozambique Channel in the direction of Beira.

Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:13:44 GMT
Govt Forces Kill 37 in Cabo Delgado
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican defence and security forces killed 37 terrorists and seized 21 firearms from them in the northern province of Cabo Delgado during the week prior to Christmas, according to the general commander of the police force, Bern...



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