[CAF] With a week to kick-off, CAF unveiled two official posters for the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations Mozambique 2022, scheduled for 21-28 October 2022.

[The Conversation Africa] Every year between 20,000 and 32,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa die after being bitten by snakes. That's more than five times the number of deaths caused by hippos, crocodiles, elephants, lions and buffalo combined.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The government promised the IMF big wage and staff cuts in order to gain IMF approval in May of a $456 mn Extended Credit Facility. The total civil service wage bill is to be cut by 17% by 2026, a cut of $425 m...

[UNFPA] Marta* was 13 years old when her mother told her she would have to marry a 73-year-old man. No longer able to afford schooling her, her mother saw marriage as the only solution. When Marta refused, she was asked to leave home.

[Spotlight Initiative] In Mozambique, with the support of the Spotlight Initiative, thousands of women and girls have joined Village Savings and Loan Associations, enabling them to open and manage their own businesses.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Africa and Mozambique are part of a growing confrontation between the US and China. Mozambique was one of five African countries invited to the United States convened Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) which U...

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The base interest rate was raised from 15.25% to 17.25% by the Bank of Mozambique (BdM) on 30 September. The Association of Mozambican Banks (AMB) said it would maintain the prime rate, the interest charged by ...

[Agenzia Fides] Maputo -- "Terrorists want us to believe that this is a religious issue, but it is not", says Msgr. Alberto Vera Aréjula, Bishop of Nacala, in northern Mozambique, where since 2017 armed groups sow death and destruction.

[MSF] Almost one million people are currently displaced in northern Mozambique after fleeing their homes in search of safety, due to the conflict that started in Cabo Delgado province in October 2017.

[UN News] Nearly one million people have fled extreme violence perpetrated by non-State armed groups in northern Mozambique over the past five years, the UN refugee agency UNHCR reported on Tuesday.

[ISS] Is an obsession with gas profits leading African countries to neglect the security of local populations?

[New Times] Maj Gen Eugene Nkubito, the joint task force commander of Rwanda security forces (RSF) in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique's northernmost Province, gave us a stick-to-the-script kind of briefing soon after we landed in Afungi, on September 26.

[New Times] Maj Gen Eugene Nkubito, the joint task force commander of Rwandan security forces in Mozambique's northernmost Province of Cabo Delgado, is not daunted by the huge task at hand, he told The New Times in an exclusive interview.

[New Times] For the second time in a month, on Wednesday, September 28, a Rwanda security forces' medical team set out, in the morning, to attend to patients in Olumbi, a remote village 50 kilometers from their base camp in Afungi, Palma district.

[The Exchange] Promising recent resource finds in Mozambique and Tanzania bode well for Africa's future. Exploration is being pursued with renewed vigour, and the world's energy companies are keenly eyeing the continent.

[Global Press Journal] Mount Selinda, Zimbabwe -- The region straddling the Mozambique-Zimbabwe line is "the same community." But that carries consequences for Zimbabwe's health care system, security and environment.

[New Times] As the plane carrying journalists to the Rwanda security forces' area of responsibility in Cabo Delgado Province approached the Afungi Airstrip on Monday, September 26, a line of seven small fishing vessels lingered, far below, closer to ...

[CAF] The media accreditation window for the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations Mozambique 2022 is now open.

[CAF] Mozambique will be hoping to successfully defend their regional title when the Cosafa Beach Soccer Championship gets underway in Durban, South Africa on Sunday. The competition will see eight teams battle it out for the crown of the Southern re...

[Agenzia Fides] Maputo -- Northern Mozambique where the Comboni missionary Sister Maria De Coppi, among others, was killed on September 6 during the attack on the Chipene mission (see Fides, 7/9/2022), is increasingly at the center of the interest of...

[CAF] The first round of the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations Mozambique 2022, scheduled for 21-28 October, will be hotly contested.

[VOA] Maputo -- Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi has called on Western energy companies to resume work in Cabo Delgado Province, saying security has improved around the town of Palma. But clashes are continuing between federal forces and other Afr...

[Agenzia Fides] Maputo -- "There cannot be first class and second class victims". "The response to jihadists cannot be solely military but it is necessary to give hope to young people who would otherwise be tempted to recruit into jihadist ranks". Th...

[Spotlight Initiative] Judite Nota is 36 years old and has been a Mozambican Government employee for over 13 years. She has always worked to eliminate gender-based violence (GBV) as her primary professional and personal goal. Today, she is Head of th...

[Agenzia Fides] Maputo -- The attack on the Chipene mission in which Sister Maria De Coppi was killed (see Fides, 7/9/2022) is not an isolated event, but is part of a progression of attacks by insurgents (likely linked to the self-declared Islamic St...

[ANGOP] Maputo -- The vice-president of the ruling MPLA party Luísa Damião arrived Thursday in the Maputo, Mozambique, to participate in the 12th congress of the FRELIMO party, slated for 23 - 28 Sept.