[CAF] East Africans Uganda will take on Mozambique in their opening game of the Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations at the Olympic Stadium on Nouakchott on Monday afternoon. This will be the first time ever that the two countries will be playing at the ...

[RFI] Recent reports indicate that attacks by Islamist militants in the Cabo Delgado area of northern Mozambique are dwindling. But the death of the chief of operations this week calls for strategic changes, local media reports.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] A seizure of drugs on a beach in Nacala Porto district shows that the Cabo Delgado war has pushed the trade south to the coast of Nampula.

[Cosafa] The Mozambique team are on their way to Mauritania for the Africa Under-20 Cup of Nations having made a stop-over in Casablanca, Morocco.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The minister of National Defence and Veterans of the Homeland, João Ernesto dos Santos, spoke last Tuesday in Luanda, dismayed by the death of the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Mozambique (CEMG), Eugénio Ussene...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican police have detained a prominent businessman, Minoj Hassan, in Pemba, capital of the northern province of Cabo Delgado, in possession of 180 kilos of the drug ephedrine, reports Friday's issue of the independent newsshe...

[AIM] Maputo -- The discovery that the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 is not effective against the South African strain of the coronavirus is a "bucket of cold water" poured over the hopes of the region, declared Mozambique's Deputy National Di...

[AIM] Maputo -- The trial of three people, a man and two women, accused of involvement on the kidnapping of businessman Manish Cantilal, could not begin on Monday, as scheduled, because the defence lawyers abandoned the courtroom.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican defence and security forces have killed six ringleaders of the islamist terrorists operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, according to a report in "Noticias de Defesa", an unofficial website that supports t...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican National Institute of Fisheries Research (IIP) and the Eden Association for Reforestation signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), under which the two sides agreed to work together in a mangrove restoration...

[AIM] Maputo -- The northern Mozambican province of Nampula has recorded so far 133 cases of cholera, after an outbreak that was first reported in January in the district of Meconta, which is also the epicentre of the disease.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Health Ministry on Monday reported a further five deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 312 new cases.

[UNFPA] Reflections by Dr. Julitta Onabanjo, UNFPA Regional Director for East and Southern Africa

[AIM] Maputo -- Young Mozambicans recruited by the terrorist groups operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado will not be harmed if they defect and turn themselves in to the authorities, President Filipe Nyusi pledged on Wednesday.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mayor of Maputo, Eneas Comiche, has promised to cancel land titles granted to people who have occupied areas of mangrove forest in the city, according to a report carried on Tuesday by the independent television station STV.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further 17 deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 800 new cases.

[Daily Maverick] Journalist Tom Bowker has been covering the Islamist insurgency in the far north of the country.

[CISA] Beira -- 21 people have been confirmed dead and more than 270,000 displaced across Southern Africa according to preliminary information by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Tom Bowker, journalist and editor of the respected Zitamar newsletter, has been ordered to leave the country by Saturday. The expulsion is entirely unofficial - there is nothing in writing. Tom is British and...

[AIM] Maputo -- At least 5,500 families, affected by Cyclone Eloise, which hit central Mozambique last Saturday, are cut off from the rest of the country in Save locality, Machaze district, in Manica province.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) last Saturday arrested a man in possession of 66 kilos of illegal drugs (heroin and methamphetamine) on a beach outside the northern port city of Nacala.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Nampula Provincial Court in northern Mozambique on Thursday sentenced two members of the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR - the Mozambican Riot Police) for murdering a member of the Nampula Municipal Police on 29 July last year.

[UNFPA] Cabo Delgado -- To respond to the urgent needs of an estimated 530,000 people displaced by violent conflict in Cabo Delgado, UNFPA has supported the government's installation of sexual and reproductive health tents, women and girl-friendly sp...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported 907 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 11 more Covid-19 deaths.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park has become the first African institution to join the global coalition "United for Biodiversity", according to a Thursday press release from the Park.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park has become the first African institution to join the global coalition "United for Biodiversity", according to a Thursday press release from the Park.

[AIM] Maputo -- The French oil and gas company Total has said that, while it may use infrastructures in the French Indian Ocean possession of Mayotte for some offshore operations to support its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the northern Moza...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Mozambique (CPMO), meeting on Wednesday, increased the Bank's key interest rates by 300 base points.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican authorities have warned of a risk of flooding in the Zambezi Valley, because of increased discharges from the Cahora Bassa dam.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago confirmed in Maputo on Wednesday that the new South African variant of the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease has been detected in Mozambique.