Mozambique

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:34:05 GMT
Jihadists From Abroad Pour Into Cabo Delgado
[DW] After several months of relative calm, Mozambique's troubled Cabo Delgado province has been thrown into turmoil as Islamist insurgents increase their international network in Africa.

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:23:32 GMT
War and Rain Continue to Disrupt Cabo Delgado
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] In Chiure district, registration is only taking place within the municipality. No administrative post has an operational registration team. Officially, shortage of transport is cited as the reason, but the main...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:20:31 GMT
High Turnout in Many Rural Zones
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Inhambane turnout is mixed, with high turnout in Funhalouro district. In the Natal Ngovene Primary School, in Mabote district, there were enormous queues on the second day, and the registration of all the voter...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:18:55 GMT
Priority to Frelimo Members in Sofala
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] In Inharongue and Danga EPCs, Buzi, Sofala, registration brigade members have allegedly been instructed to attend first to Frelimo members who come with the saguta (village heads) and party branch secretaries. ...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:17:30 GMT
CIP Observer Credentials Blocked
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] CIP is being denied press credentials in Maputo City, Maputo province, Gaza, Nampula and Tete, despite applications have been made two to three weeks ago. In Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Sofala and Inhambane applicati...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:26:14 GMT
Illicit Charges in Ngaúma
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Our correspondents in Ngaúma , Niassa, report polling station monitors charging between 20 and 50 meticais for each voter who wants to register. The monitors ask the police to move about 20 metres so they ...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:25:08 GMT
No Electricity And Solar Panels Causing Problems
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The brigade at the Correia de Guava Mission, in Marracuene district, Maputo, has been unable to operate since the first day because of the lack of electricity and a non-working printer. By Saturday (16 March) n...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:22:11 GMT
But Few Registering in the South
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] But there has been a poor turnout at many registration posts, particularly in the south, even the districts that were not covered by the voter registration for the municipal elections last year. Our corresponde...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 04:55:31 GMT
In Conflict-Hit Mozambique, a Tropical Storm Warns of Hunger and the Next Cyclone
[WFP] The World Food Programme requires urgent funds to respond to displacement caused by conflict in the north as climate change wreaks havoc in the south

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:51:03 GMT
Normality in Other Provinces
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Maputo City -- By 09.00 Maputo city registered few new voters. There were none at Quisse Mavota Secondary School, Maxaquene EPC, the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education of the Eduardo Mondlane University (U...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:48:58 GMT
Delayed Start in Cabo Delgado
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Wars and heavy rain earlier this month delayed the start of registration in Cabo Delgado.

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:45:16 GMT
Starting in the Rain
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Various delays and law changes forced the start of registration in the rainy season. In Manhiça district, Maputo province, the day was marked by difficulties in access to some administrative posts after th...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:39:48 GMT
Bad Start in Many Places - Even District Administrators Had Problems Registering
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] In Zambézia two district administrators had trouble registering. In Ile District, it took 30 minutes to register district administrator Onório das Dores Pereira Vaz because of problems with the comput...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:34:00 GMT
Bad Start in Many Places - Even District Administrators Had Problems Registering
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] In Zambézia two district administrators had trouble registering. In Ile District, it took 30 minutes to register district administrator Onório das Dores Pereira Vaz because of problems with the comput...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:31:18 GMT
Crowds Registering in Rural Areas, But as Last Year, Many Problems
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Voter registration began Friday with crowds in some rural areas but few people in cities, our team of more than 400 correspondents reported yesterday. This was expected. Last year there was registration in the ...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:00:54 GMT
Urgent Aid Needed for Those Affected by Tropical Storm Filipo
[OCHA] Authorities in Mozambique report that some 14,000 people have been affected by the severe Tropical Storm Filipo across central and southern Mozambique, with two people killed and more than a dozen others injured.

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:08:50 GMT
2023 Municipal Elections Results - Did Renamo Win 0, 4, or 7 Municipalities?
[Elections 2009] It is impossible to know the true results of last year's municipal elections because the National Elections Commission (CNE) and Constitutional Council (CC) can change results in secret and without explanation. In Mozambique's democr...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:01:19 GMT
One Dead, Seven Injured, in Tropical Storm
[AIM] Maputo -- Severe tropical storm Filipo killed at least one person and injured a further seven, as it passed through southern Mozambique on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to preliminary figures from the country's relief agency, the National Di...

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 22:42:06 GMT
Assistant Secretary Witkowsky's Travel to Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Kenya
[State Department] Assistant Secretary of the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations Anne A. Witkowsky will travel to Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Kenya from March 17-26.

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:59:15 GMT
Rafah's Civilians, Mozambique's Storms, and Finding Joy in Malawi - the Cheat Sheet
[The New Humanitarian] Geneva -- A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:17:53 GMT
WFP Palais Briefing Note - a Deepening Humanitarian Crisis in Mozambique As Resources Shrink and Needs Increase
[WFP] Geneva -- This is a summary of what was said by Antonella d'Aprile, WFP Country Director in Mozambique to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:02:32 GMT
- Storm Knocks Out Electricity for 100,000 People
[AIM] Maputo -- Almost 100,000 people have been deprived of electricity since Tuesday morning as a result of the severe tropical storm "Filipo', which has swept across southern Mozambique.

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:03:57 GMT
- Conjunctivitis Outbreak Spreads to Seven Mozambican Provinces
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities have already recorded over 8,000 cases of conjunctivitis, since the disease has spread to seven provinces in less than a month.

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:03:24 GMT
Going Through 'Unprecedented Crisis'
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, is going through an unprecedented crisis, according to Elias Dhlakama, brother of the late Afonso Dhlakama, who led the party from 1979 until his death in 2018.

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:11:58 GMT
Severe Storm May Affect 525,000 People in Southern Mozambique
[AIM] Maputo -- The severe tropical storm "Filipo', which is expected to hit southern Mozambique over the next 72 hours, could affect at least 525,000 people, according to the country's relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGD)...

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 04:37:57 GMT
Mozambique Hit by Storm Filipo, One Year After Cyclone Freddy
[Oxfam] Millions of people have nothing left to eat but wild roots as they have lost their crops to repeated extreme weather

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 06:58:49 GMT
What's Behind the Worldwide Shortage of Cholera Vaccines? for Starters, They're Only Made By One Company
[The Conversation Africa] In February 2024 the World Health Organization announced southern Africa was suffering the deadliest regional outbreak of cholera in at least a decade. At the epicentre of the disaster were Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, w...

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:21:30 GMT
ICRC Calls On Respect for Civilians, Ramps Up Support to Mozambique Red Cross Response to a New Wave of Displacements in Cabo Delgado
[ICRC] Nearly 100,000 people, more than half of them children, have been displaced in one month due to an escalation of armed violence in Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique. The new wave of displacements is taking place against the backdrop of a pro...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:05:26 GMT
South Africa Resumes Building Wall Along Border With Mozambique
[AIM] Maputo -- The government of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal has resumed construction of a concrete wall along the South Africa/Mozambique border supposedly to curb the theft of motor vehicles and the movement of illicit goods, after...

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:39:19 GMT
Fear of Attacks in Northern Mozambique Triggers Mass Displacement - UN
[allAfrica] Geneva -- Attacks and fear of attacks in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, have triggered the displacement of almost 100,000 people, including more than 60,000 children, in the past month, the UN Children's Agency, Unicef, is reporting.

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