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Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:08:45 GMT
U.S. to Lift Travel Ban On Eight Southern African Countries
[VOA] The U.S. will lift travel restrictions to eight southern African countries on New Year's Eve, the White House announced Friday.

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:51:14 GMT
The Conflict in Cabo Delgado has Been Ongoing for Over Four Years. How is the Situation Today?
[MSF] During 2020 and the first half of this year, there was intense violence including fighting and attacks by non-state armed groups against villages and large towns. This forced masses of people on the coastal strip and northeast of Cabo Delgado t...

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:08:17 GMT
People Continue to Flee Insecurity and Violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
[MSF] Paulo Milanesio is a project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Mueda, a town in the north of the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, where hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge from ongoing conflict.

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:07:16 GMT
SANDF Soldier Killed in Mozambique
[SAnews.gov.za] The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has confirmed that it has lost a soldier deployed in Mozambique as part of Operation Vikela.

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:00:03 GMT
Family of Soldier Killed in Mozambique to Receive His Mortal Remains
[SAnews.gov.za] The mortal remains of Corporal Tebogo Edwin Radebe, who died after an attack by insurgents in Mozambique, will be handed over to his family on Thursday at the Air Base Force in Waterkloof, Pretoria.

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:44:15 GMT
Enriched Porridges and Nutrition Knowledge Keep Children Healthy in Mozambique
[FAO] Education and training are reducing the malnutrition rates in Cabo Delgado

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:19:17 GMT
Statement At the End of an IMF Staff Visit to Mozambique
[IMF] End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the ...

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:59:50 GMT
Nyusi tells AR: Cabo Delgado War is About Greed of Insurgents - with No Mention of Greed of Frelimo
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] "For us there is no rational narrative behind terrorist actions. What we are facing is pure banditry driven by others' greed against a nation that is about to make the qualitative and quantitative leap", Presid...

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:47:44 GMT
Cuamba Solar PV and Energy Storage Reaches Financial Close
[PR Newswire] Maputo, Mozambique -- Globeleq, the leading independent power company in Africa and its project partners, Source Energia, a Lusophone Africa energy developer and Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), the Mozambican national power utility,...

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 12:28:50 GMT
Officials Say Insurgency in Northern Mozambique Is Spreading
[VOA] With violence by armed groups spreading beyond Mozambique's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado into neighboring Niassa province, President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday cautioned against panic.

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 12:31:59 GMT
Insurgency Threatens Conservation Progress, Environmental Protections in Niassa Special Reserve
[Daily Maverick] Two years ago, Mozambique's spectacular and vast Niassa Special Reserve, bordering on Tanzania, was just getting over a horrific period of elephant poaching. Then it was swamped by Cyclone Eloise. Yet the resilient Mozambicans took i...

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:26:21 GMT
Cabo Delgado - Mozambican Defence Minister Visits Rwandan Forces
[New Times] The minister and his entourage were briefed on the current operations by Rwanda security forces in their area of operations in Cabo Delgado.

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:10:32 GMT
World Bank Expands Water Access in Mozambique's Nampula and Zambezia Provinces
[World Bank] Washington -- The World Bank approved today a $150 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA)* in support of the Government of Mozambique's Rural and Small Towns Water Security Project, which aims at increasing ac...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:09:18 GMT
World Bank Supports Greater Access to Energy and Broadband Services in Rural Mozambique
[World Bank] Washington -- The World Bank approved today a $300 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) that will support the Government of Mozambique's efforts to increase access to energy and broadband services, as well a...

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:18:07 GMT
Top Figures Charged as Govt Tries to Clean Up Nation's Reputation
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- One of the Seychelles' wealthiest and most powerful men, his wife and former senior government officials face charges of laundering U.S. $50 million as a new government, elected last year, attempts to clean up the nation's re...

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:38:10 GMT
Fuel Queues Resurface, Govt Claims Due to Maintenace Work in Mozambique
[New Zimbabwe] Fuel shortages have re-emerged in Harare with long winding queues resurfacing at the few fuel stations that had the basic commodity.

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:02:23 GMT
Hundreds of Women, Girls Abducted Since 2018 - Human Rights Watch
[HRW] Johannesburg -- ISIS-Linked Militants Should Free Captives; Authorities Should Assist Survivors

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:36:19 GMT
'An Unknown Number of Women and Girls Remain in Captivity'
[DW] A group with alleged ties to the "Islamic State" has "enslaved and sexually abused" hundreds of women and girls in Mozambique over the past three years, Human Rights Watch said.

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:17:02 GMT
Rwanda Forces in Mozambique Receive Covid-19 Booster Dose
[New Times] Rwanda Security Force (RSF) in Cabo-Delgado, Mozambique, on Monday, December 6 received the booster (3rd) dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:05:18 GMT
Insurgency Spreads to Niassa
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] As predicted, and following Frelimo's model after the Portuguese 1970 Operation Gordian Knot  (see this newsletter last week https://bit.ly/Moz-580), the guerrillas are moving away from the heavy military push...

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:11:06 GMT
Zimtrade Urges Firms to Penetrate Maputo
[The Herald] ZIMTRADE says Zimbabwean businesses can take advantage of their proximity to Mozambique to penetrate the neighbouring country's market, which has vast export opportunities.

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:12:15 GMT
Health Services Denied to Displaced Women as Tensions Rise With Host Communities
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Relations between host and displaced communities are negative and seem to be deteriorating,  both groups told a survey by UNHCR's Cabo Delgado Protection Cluster, published 18 November.  https://bit.ly/Moz-Pa...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:59:18 GMT
Omicron Cuts Travel North, as Mozambique Tightens Checks on South Africa Border
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The new Covid Omicron variant has already led to sharp travel restrictions between  Mozambique and most countries of the north. First discovered two weeks ago in Botswana  and South Africa, the variant has an...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:46:12 GMT
IMF Continues to Back Gas, Despite the Resource Curse
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Attempts to limit gas in Mozambique are "not sensible", IMF representative in Mozambique, Alexis  Meyer-Cirkel, said in an open briefing 23 November. "I think that this discussion, preventing  Mozambique from...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:35:06 GMT
Gas: Decision Now, or Wait For Real Peace?
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The ever optimistic Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Max Tonela, said that there could  be an imminent decision to restart work on gas. "The outlook is that before the end of the year we  are going t...

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:54:11 GMT
What Lies Behind the Failure to Find Lasting Peace and True Democracy
[The Conversation Africa] Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975 following a bloody liberation war that lasted about 11 years. But independence did not mean the end of conflict. The dominant liberation movement, Liberation Front of Moza...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 20:56:17 GMT
Europe Halts Travel From Southern Africa Over New Coronavirus Variant
[DW] The European Union wants member states to halt air travel with South Africa and several surrounding countries over a new coronavirus variant. Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic were all quick to react.



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