Mozambique
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:16:23 GMTGovt Alters Water Prices
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government announced on Tuesday that it is altering the tariffs charged for drinking water, by both public and private suppliers - but declined to say how much the new tariff will be.
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:13:40 GMTPakistani Drug Traffickers Sentenced
[AIM] Maputo -- The Cabo Delgado provincial court in northern Mozambique, sitting in the provincial capital, Pemba, on Tuesday sentenced 11 Pakistani nationals to between ten and 19 years imprisonment for drug trafficking.
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:48:36 GMTCar Stolen From SA Destined for Mozambique Intercepted
[The Herald] Beitbridge Bureau
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:18:37 GMTPriinvest Indulges In Delaying Tactics, Serving A Notification On Nyusi And Others
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Attorney General's Office (PGR) has confirmed to the independent television station, STV, that a London court has indeed allowed the Abu-Dhabi based company, Privinvest, to serve a notification on President Filipe Nyusi...
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:17:06 GMTDespite Terrorism, Macomia Celebrates Its Anniversary
[AIM] Maputo -- Although it is on the front line of the struggle against islamist terrorism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, the town of Macomia on Tuesday celebrated the 56th anniversary of its elevation to the status of a town, ...
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:14:39 GMTCovid-19 - No Deaths and 55 New Cases
[AIM] Maputo -- According to the Mozambican health authorities, a further 55 cases of the respiratory disease Covid-19 were diagnosed on Tuesday, but there were no deaths.
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:08 GMTMozambique Among the Top Four Countries for New HIV Infection Rates
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago said on Monday that the country ranks in fourth position on the list of countries with high rates of HIV infections, with a national average rate of new infections estimated at 364 cases a day.
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:05:12 GMTGovt Signs Gas and Energy Deals
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government and cooperation partners on Monday in Maputo signed the technical and commercial agreements for the Temane Gas and Energy Projects, in the southern province of Inhambane, paving the way for the start, by the ...
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:50:54 GMTFormer Rwandan Journalist Ntamuhanga Cassien Abducted
[AIM] Maputo -- Men wearing Mozambican police uniforms have kidnapped a former Rwandan journalist, Ntamuhanga Cassien, who was living in exile in Mozambique, according to a report carried by Monday's issue of the independent newssheet "Carta de Mocam...
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:08 GMTMozambican Debt Remains Unsustainable
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's public debt remains "unsustainable", according to the latest annual report on the debt from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and hence the country remains debt distressed.
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:07 GMTShortage of Vaccines Compromises Covid-19 Vaccination
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's Deputy National Director of Public Health, Benigna Matsinhe, warned on Monday that the late arrival of vaccines against the Covid-19 respiratory disease could compromise the Ministry of Health's vaccination calendar.
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:07 GMTElectronic Sealing and Tracking System Detects 25 Violation Attempts
[AIM] Maputo -- At least 25 violations of transit procedures have been recorded between January and May, since the installation of an electronic sealing and tracking system for goods in transit along the Beira Corridor in the central Mozambican provi...
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:04 GMTThird Consecutive Day With No Covid-19 Deaths
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported the third consecutive day without any deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
Mon, 31 May 2021 13:53:33 GMTSouth Africa Says Send Troops; Tanzania Says No Troops, Instead Negotiate, Develop
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] South Africa is pressing for urgent military intervention in Cabo Delgado, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told Reuters (21 May) in a telephone interview. Since 2008 SADC has had a regional defence...
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:56:58 GMTTractors Distributed to Nampula Farmers
[AIM] Maputo -- 42 of the 115 emerging small commercial farmers (PACEs), integrated into Mozambique's flagship agricultural development programme Sustenta, have now received tractors and other equipment in the northern province of Nampula.
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:54:26 GMTOpposition Party Schedules Congress for December
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the second largest opposition force in the country, has scheduled an extraordinary congress, to elect a new Party President, for 3-5 December, in the central city of Beira.
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:52:27 GMTWar, Intervention, and Solidarity
[AfricaFocus] "No amount of international military assistance will, within two years, create a fighting force that can combat the insurgency. Two other factors complicate external support. Foreign intervention is likely to provoke a response from Isl...
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 11:28:13 GMTFossil Fuels, Debt, and Corruption
[AfricaFocus] "The scandal of Mozambique's "hidden debts" has already cost the country at least 11 billion US dollars, and has plunged an additional two million people into poverty, according to a detailed study of the costs and consequences of the d...
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:11:19 GMTFootball Body Turns Down Mambas Invitation
[The Herald] Senior Sports Reporter
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 04:56:47 GMTMozambique's Difficult Decade - Three Lessons to Inform Next Steps
[The Conversation Africa] At the start of the last decade, Mozambique's prospects looked stellar. Following from the early 1990s, when peace finally arrived after a devastating and protracted armed conflict, this vast country in Southern Africa could...
Mon, 31 May 2021 10:29:42 GMT267 Recoveries From Covid-19, and 7 New Cases
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday reported that a further 267 people have been declared fully recovered from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
Mon, 31 May 2021 10:29:37 GMTNyusi Lays First Stone for Tete Railway Reconstruction
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Saturday laid the first stone in the reconstruction of the railway in the western province of Tete that links the Dona Ana bridge over the Zambezi river to Vila Nova da Fronteira, on the border wit...
Sat, 29 May 2021 15:57:08 GMTTrue Cost of Hidden Debts Already Over U.S.$11 Billion
[AIM] Maputo -- The scandal of Mozambique's "hidden debts" has already cost the country at least 11 billion US dollars, and has plunged an additional two million people into poverty, according to a detailed study of the costs and consequences of the ...
Sat, 29 May 2021 15:57:57 GMTNo Need for Cotton Subsidy This Year
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government announced on Thursday that it will no longer subsidise the price of raw cotton, paid to the producers.
Sat, 29 May 2021 15:57:29 GMTMayor Promises Measures Against Police Brutality
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mayor of Maputo, Eneas Comiche, has promised that measures will be taken against four members of the municipal police who were caught on camera on Wednesday savagely beating an informal vendor.
Fri, 28 May 2021 15:52:40 GMTAfrican Leaders Reaffirm Support for Mozambique
[SAnews.gov.za] The Double Troika Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has reaffirmed its solidarity with Mozambique, and its continued efforts in addressing terrorism and ensuring lasting p...
Fri, 28 May 2021 08:29:36 GMTSADC Vows to Stamp Out Terrorism
[The Herald] Lincoln Towindo recently in MAPUTO, Mozambique
Fri, 28 May 2021 08:08:44 GMTHelping Girls Manage Menstrual Health and Hygiene in Crises and Beyond
[UNFPA] Maputo/Luanda -- MAPUTO, Mozambique/LUANDA, Angola - It can be challenging enough when a girl gets her first period - she may not even know what is happening to her body. Now put her in a situation in which she's been displaced or vulnerable ...
Thu, 27 May 2021 13:14:22 GMTWhat Would It Take to Stabilise Cabo Delgado?
[ISS] Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province is caught up in a security challenge that has captured global attention. The situation endangers tens of thousands of lives and has destabilised northern Mozambique. It also potentially threatens foreign direc...
Sat, 29 May 2021 15:58:14 GMTCovid-19 - One More Death and 24 New Cases
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Friday reported another death from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 24 new cases.