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Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:03:39 GMT
Armed Groups Kidnap 51 Children From Cabo Delgado, Mozambique in a Year
[East African] At least 51 children, most of them girls, have been abducted by non-state armed groups in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado over the past 12 months, an NGO reported on Wednesday.

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 07:20:07 GMT
Armed Groups Kidnap 51 Children From Cabo Delgado in a Year
[Nation] At least 51 children, most of them girls, have been abducted by non-state armed groups in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado over the past 12 months, an NGO reported on Wednesday.

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:48:27 GMT
Government Seeking 'To Reduce Vulnerability to Climate Change'
[AIM] Maputo -- Maputo. 10 Jun (AIM) - The Mozambican government is focused on optimising plans and strategies to reduce the country's vulnerability to the adverse effects of climate change, declared the Minister of Land and Environment, Ivete Maibas...

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:48:05 GMT
Construction of Cuamba Solar Power Station Begins
[AIM] Maputo -- Cuamba (Mozambique), 10 Jun (AIM) - The Mozambican Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Max Tonela, on Thursday reiterated the government's determination to diversify the country's energy matrix through further investment in clea...

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:47:43 GMT
74 New Cases of Covid-19
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday announced the diagnosis of a further 74 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, the highest number of new cases reported in a single 24 hour period, so far this month.

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:47:21 GMT
Former Police Officer Kidnapped in Beira
[AIM] Maputo -- A group of armed men, who claimed to be members of the Mozambican police force, on Tuesday night kidnapped a former police officer, Alexandre Nguiliche, from his home in the central city of Beira.

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:46:59 GMT
Nyusi Will Not Attend Olympic Games
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has announced that he will not attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Japan, in order to show solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks in the northern province of Cabo Delgado...

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:46:15 GMT
Former Mayor Sentenced to 18 Months
[AIM] Maputo -- The KaMpfumo municipal district court, in Maputo city, on Wednesday sentenced the former mayor of the city, David Simango, to18 months imprisonment for crimes of corruption.

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 07:45:33 GMT
'Population Fleeing Violence Is Unable to Find Shelter'
[Agenzia Fides] Cabo Delgado -- The escape from attacks continues in the villages of the districts of Palma and Nangade in Cabo Delgado.

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:48:10 GMT
Jihadists Attack On Mozambique - How Far Can SADC Go ?
[Cameroon Tribune] The 16-member organization has several international instruments at her disposal that it can use to curb militant insurgence in the Province of Cabo Delgado.

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 15:09:36 GMT
Child Kidnapping Being Used As Warfare Tactic in Mozambique, Aid Groups Say
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Kidnapping victims are frequently exposed to further trauma such as witnessing beheadings or seeing their homes being set alight, says Save the Children

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:53:34 GMT
Six Sentenced for Facilitating Illegal Ruby Mining
[AIM] Maputo -- The Montepuez district court, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado has sentenced seven people to 18 months imprisonment for facilitating the illegal mining of rubies in the concession granted to the company Montepuez Ru...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:53:34 GMT
High Commissioner Presents Credentials to UK Monarch
[AIM] London -- Mozambique's new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Albertina MacDonald, on Tuesday presented her credentials to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London.

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:53:33 GMT
Private Companies Cooperate in Acquiring Vaccines
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican private companies have acquired over 500,000 doses of vaccine against the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and are offering 120,000 of these doses to the government, Health Minister Armindo Tiago announced on Tuesday.

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:53:33 GMT
Fight Against Terrorism Top Priority for Cabo Delgado
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday demanded that the newly appointed Secretary of State for the northern province of Cabo Delgado, Antonio Supeia, make further efforts in the fight against the terrorism that has plagued pa...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:53:33 GMT
No Recoveries From Covid-19 Reported On Tuesday
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities reported on Tuesday that, over the previous 24 hours, no Covid-19 patients were declared recovered from the disease.

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:53:30 GMT
18 Months to Liquidate the Post Office
[AIM] Maputo -- Maputo. 9 Jun (AIM) - The Mozambican government's Institute for the Management of State Holdings (IGEPE) has announced the creation of a commission of liquidators with the job of winding up the affairs of the publicly owned postal ser...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 07:52:25 GMT
Mozambique Ties With Eswatini and Wins Friendly Tournament
[CAF] After beating Lesotho 5-0 on 2 June and drawing 1-1 this Tuesday with Eswatini, Mozambique's national team won the friendly triangular friendly football tournament, held at the Estadio Nacional de Zimpeto, in Maputo, inserted in FIFA date.

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 09:31:18 GMT
Likuena Humiliated in Mozambique
[Lesotho Times] THE senior national soccer team, Likuena, was yesterday afternoon thumped 5-0 by Mozambique in a friendly in Maputo.

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:29:43 GMT
Unicef to Increase Support for Child Victims of Terrorism
[AIM] Maputo -- The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has promised to increase its support for child victims of terrorism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado from 51 to 90 million US dollars.

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:28:33 GMT
5,000 Hectares of Mangrove Forest to Be Restored
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government intends to restore mangrove forests over an area of 5,000 hectares across the country, by 2022, according to the national director of maritime and fishery policy, Felismina Antia.

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 07:09:20 GMT
Violence and Displacement in Cabo Delgado - Women and Children Particularly Affected
[Agenzia Fides] Maputo -- Women and children are the victims most affected by the violence and the consequences of displacement in the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, where since 2017 over 700,000 people have been forced to abandon ...

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:54:26 GMT
Nyusi Holds Virtual Meeting With Charles Michel
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Monday held a virtual meeting with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, at which the two men discussed the defence and security situation in Mozambique, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:54:23 GMT
Covid-19 - One Death, 31 New Cases and 25 Recoveries
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities announced on Monday that, after three days without any deaths in Mozambique from Covid-19, the disease has claimed another victim.

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:29:04 GMT
Cooking Gas Shortage Should End By Wednesday
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government has promised that the shortage of cooking gas in the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area will be over by Wednesday.

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:04:25 GMT
'Not Ashamed to Be HIV Positive' - Overcoming Multiple Forms of Discrimination in Mozambique
[Spotlight Initiative] Married at 12 years old, Gilda*, now 34, had all the odds stacked against her. A rural woman, she survived physical and sexual violence at the hands of two husbands and had seven children. After she contracted HIV from her seco...

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 07:26:21 GMT
Tanzania Accused of Expelling 3,800 Mozambicans
[AIM] Maputo -- The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), citing the Mozambican border authorities, says that in May Tanzanian forcibly expelled almost 3,800 Mozambicans who were seeking refuge from terrorist attacks against Palma dist...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:00:32 GMT
Strengthen Coastal Resilience to Protect Communities
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Minister of the Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries, Augusta Maita, said on Monday that cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which hit the country in 2019, raised the urgency of placing coastal resilience at the top of the marine go...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:00:29 GMT
Forests Being Lost to Produce Wood Fuel
[AIM] Maputo -- The southern Mozambican province of Inhambane is losing about a thousand hectares of forest a year, mostly for the production of wood fuel, reports Monday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:00:31 GMT
Us Finances Medical Courses for Mozambican Military
[AIM] Maputo -- 40 Mozambican soldiers and health professionals have completed two training programmes on emergency lifesaving tactics on the battlefield, according to a Monday press release from the United States embassy.



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