[AIM] Maputo -- DP World, the company that holds the concession to operate the container terminal at Maputo Port, has launched a rail service between the port and Harare, reducing the transit time for containers travelling between Mozambique and Zimb...

[AIM] Maputo -- The mobile phone company Vodacom-Mocambique (a subsidiary of the South African company Vodacom) has threatened to end its interconnection with the publicly owned company TMcel, which would make it impossible for TMcel subscribers to r...

[AIM] Maputo -- The wide variety of initiatives crafted by the South Africa-based Peace Parks Foundation has not only contributed to reducing poaching in several Mozambican conservation areas, but has also boosted the livelihoods of thousands of peop...

[AIM] Maputo -- Ossufo Momade, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has accused the government of violating the peace agreement that he signed with President Filipe Nyusi in •ugust 2019, according to Tuesday's issue of the independe...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Monday expressed concern at the rise in the number of cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease reported over the past few days, warning that this could signal the advent of a third wave of the dis...

[HRW] Nairobi -- Acknowledge his Detention; Ensure Access to Lawyer; Block Any Return to Rwanda

[AIM] Health Minister Armindo Tiago on 31 May revealed that the country ranks fourth 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.

[AIM] 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 US$51 to US$90 million.

[AIM] The Mozambican government on 2 June reiterated its appeal to the international community to mobilise more humanitarian assistance for the victims of terrorism in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. At a meeting in Maputo with the diplomatic ...

[AIM] The Cabo Delgado provincial court in northern Mozambique, sitting in the provincial capital, Pemba, on 1 June sentenced 11 Pakistani nationals to between ten and 19 years imprisonment for drug trafficking.

[AIM] President Filipe Nyusi on 2 June inaugurated a new water treatment plant in Moamba district, about 60 kilometres northwest of the capital, which will reduce restrictions on the water supply to the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area. The system wi...

[AIM] The Chinese armed forces on 3 June gave the Mozambican defence forces (FADM) 60,000 doses of vaccine against the Covid-19 respiratory disease. Signing the delivery note were the National Director of Military Health in the Mozambican Defence Min...

[AIM] The southern province of Inhambane is losing about a thousand hectares of forest a year, mostly for the production of wood fuel, according to a report in the daily newspaper "O Pais".

[AIM] 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. She was speaking on 8 June on a Radio ...

[AIM] Mozambique's new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Albertina MacDonald, on 8 June presented her credentials to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London. Speaking afterwards at a vin d'honneur, the High Commissioner lauded the lo...

[AIM] The Montepuez district court, in the northern 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 Ruby Mining (MRM).

[AIM] The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Max Tonela, on 10 June reiterated the government's determination to diversify the country's energy matrix through further investment in clean and renewable sources of power. He was speaking in the t...

[AIM] The World Bank on 4 June approved a US$100 million grant from the IDA and a US$15 million grant from the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in support of Mozambique's efforts to expand its COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

[AIM] The World Bank on 10 June approved a grant of US$150 million from the International Development Association (IDA) in support of the first phase of Mozambique's Sustainable Rural Economy Programme. According to the World Bank, this programme wil...

[AIM] Raimundo Chambe, the lawyer for the former Mayor of Maputo, David Simango, has announced that his client is appealing against the 18-month jail sentence, converted into a fine, that he received from the KaMpfumo municipal district court on 9 Ju...

[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 Maibase.

[AIM] President Filipe Nyusi on 10 June inaugurated a new hospital in Jangamo district, in the southern province of Inhambane, as part of the presidential initiative "One district, one hospital", to ensure that each of Mozambique's 154 districts has ...

[AIM] The Mozambican defence and security forces have categorically denied reports in some foreign media that they have used land mines in the conflict with Islamist terrorists in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

[AIM] The Mozambican health authorities on 11 June announced that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 76 people were diagnosed with the Covid-19 respiratory disease. 73 of the cases were Mozambican citizens, one was a foreigner and in two cases nati...

[AIM] President Filipe Nyusi on 7 June 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.

[MSF] In April, following the horrific attacks in the city of Palma, MSF's Amanda Bergman and Tadeu Andre travelled to Cabo Delgado province to document the unfolding humanitarian situation. Here they reflect on their experiences.

[AIM] President Filipe Nyusi has announced that he will not attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Japan, to show solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Korosho Mocambique cashew processing factory in Chiure district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, has found itself obliged to lay off half of its work force, due to the terrorist attacks in the province, reports Monday's ...

[AIM] Maputo -- Nampula (Mozambique), 14 Jun (AIM) - Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) on Monday, in the northern city of Nampula, presented to reporters a 45 year old man who had been arrested on the main north-south high...

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique Airlines (LAM) is selling off two aircraft manufactured by the Brazilian company, Embraer, in an attempt to standardise its fleet according to the director of the government's Institute for the Management of State Holdings ...