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Mozambique

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:22:38 GMT
Lawyer Unable to Contact Abducted Rwandan Refugee
[AIM] Maputo -- The lawyer for Rwandan refugee Nyamuhanga Cassien, who was allegedly kidnapped from Inhaca island in the Bay of Maputo on 23 May, has been unable to establish contact with his client, and believes he has been handed over to the Rwanda...

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:47:48 GMT
Government Appeals for Increased Humanitarian Aid
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government on Wednesday reiterated its appeal to the international community to mobilise more humanitarian assistance for the victims of terrorism in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:47:48 GMT
Reduction in Cases Does Not Mean End of Pandemic
[AIM] Maputo -- The reduction in the number of new cases of Covid-19 in recent weeks, and in the number of deaths and hospitalisations from the disease does not mean the end of the pandemic, warned Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago on Wednesda...

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:47:47 GMT
Covid-19 - Number of Cases and Positivity Rate Rising
[AIM] Maputo -- According to the Mozambican health authorities, a further 72 people were diagnosed with the Covid-19 respiratory disease on Wednesday.

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:47:44 GMT
New Water Treatment Station Will Ease Restrictions
[AIM] Maputo -- Moamba (Mozambique), 3 Jun (AIM) - Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday said that the new and modern water treatment plant, inaugurated in Moamba district, about 60 kilometres northwest of the capital, will reduce restrictio...

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:48:36 GMT
Car Stolen From SA Destined for Mozambique Intercepted
[The Herald] Beitbridge Bureau

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:16:23 GMT
Govt Alters Water Prices
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government announced on Tuesday that it is altering the tariffs charged for drinking water, by both public and private suppliers - but declined to say how much the new tariff will be.

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:13:40 GMT
Pakistani Drug Traffickers Sentenced
[AIM] Maputo -- The Cabo Delgado provincial court in northern Mozambique, sitting in the provincial capital, Pemba, on Tuesday sentenced 11 Pakistani nationals to between ten and 19 years imprisonment for drug trafficking.

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:18:37 GMT
Priinvest Indulges In Delaying Tactics, Serving A Notification On Nyusi And Others
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Attorney General's Office (PGR) has confirmed to the independent television station, STV, that a London court has indeed allowed the Abu-Dhabi based company, Privinvest, to serve a notification on President Filipe Nyusi...

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:17:06 GMT
Despite Terrorism, Macomia Celebrates Its Anniversary
[AIM] Maputo -- Although it is on the front line of the struggle against islamist terrorism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, the town of Macomia on Tuesday celebrated the 56th anniversary of its elevation to the status of a town, ...

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:14:39 GMT
Covid-19 - No Deaths and 55 New Cases
[AIM] Maputo -- According to the Mozambican health authorities, a further 55 cases of the respiratory disease Covid-19 were diagnosed on Tuesday, but there were no deaths.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:08 GMT
Mozambique Among the Top Four Countries for New HIV Infection Rates
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago said on Monday that the country ranks in fourth position 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.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:05:12 GMT
Govt Signs Gas and Energy Deals
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government and cooperation partners on Monday in Maputo signed the technical and commercial agreements for the Temane Gas and Energy Projects, in the southern province of Inhambane, paving the way for the start, by the ...

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:50:54 GMT
Former Rwandan Journalist Ntamuhanga Cassien Abducted
[AIM] Maputo -- Men wearing Mozambican police uniforms have kidnapped a former Rwandan journalist, Ntamuhanga Cassien, who was living in exile in Mozambique, according to a report carried by Monday's issue of the independent newssheet "Carta de Mocam...

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:08 GMT
Mozambican Debt Remains Unsustainable
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's public debt remains "unsustainable", according to the latest annual report on the debt from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and hence the country remains debt distressed.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:07 GMT
Shortage of Vaccines Compromises Covid-19 Vaccination
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's Deputy National Director of Public Health, Benigna Matsinhe, warned on Monday that the late arrival of vaccines against the Covid-19 respiratory disease could compromise the Ministry of Health's vaccination calendar.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:07 GMT
Electronic Sealing and Tracking System Detects 25 Violation Attempts
[AIM] Maputo -- At least 25 violations of transit procedures have been recorded between January and May, since the installation of an electronic sealing and tracking system for goods in transit along the Beira Corridor in the central Mozambican provi...

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:22:04 GMT
Third Consecutive Day With No Covid-19 Deaths
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported the third consecutive day without any deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

Mon, 31 May 2021 13:53:33 GMT
South Africa Says Send Troops; Tanzania Says No Troops, Instead Negotiate, Develop
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] South Africa is pressing for urgent military intervention in Cabo Delgado, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told Reuters (21 May) in a telephone interview. Since 2008 SADC has had a regional defence...

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:56:58 GMT
Tractors Distributed to Nampula Farmers
[AIM] Maputo -- 42 of the 115 emerging small commercial farmers (PACEs), integrated into Mozambique's flagship agricultural development programme Sustenta, have now received tractors and other equipment in the northern province of Nampula.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:54:26 GMT
Opposition Party Schedules Congress for December
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the second largest opposition force in the country, has scheduled an extraordinary congress, to elect a new Party President, for 3-5 December, in the central city of Beira.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:52:27 GMT
War, Intervention, and Solidarity
[AfricaFocus] "No amount of international military assistance will, within two years, create a fighting force that can combat the insurgency. Two other factors complicate external support. Foreign intervention is likely to provoke a response from Isl...

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 11:28:13 GMT
Fossil Fuels, Debt, and Corruption
[AfricaFocus] "The scandal of Mozambique's "hidden debts" has already cost the country at least 11 billion US dollars, and has plunged an additional two million people into poverty, according to a detailed study of the costs and consequences of the d...

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:11:19 GMT
Football Body Turns Down Mambas Invitation
[The Herald] Senior Sports Reporter

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 04:56:47 GMT
Mozambique's Difficult Decade - Three Lessons to Inform Next Steps
[The Conversation Africa] At the start of the last decade, Mozambique's prospects looked stellar. Following from the early 1990s, when peace finally arrived after a devastating and protracted armed conflict, this vast country in Southern Africa could...

Mon, 31 May 2021 10:29:42 GMT
267 Recoveries From Covid-19, and 7 New Cases
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday reported that a further 267 people have been declared fully recovered from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

Mon, 31 May 2021 10:29:37 GMT
Nyusi Lays First Stone for Tete Railway Reconstruction
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Saturday laid the first stone in the reconstruction of the railway in the western province of Tete that links the Dona Ana bridge over the Zambezi river to Vila Nova da Fronteira, on the border wit...

Sat, 29 May 2021 15:57:08 GMT
True Cost of Hidden Debts Already Over U.S.$11 Billion
[AIM] Maputo -- The scandal of Mozambique's "hidden debts" has already cost the country at least 11 billion US dollars, and has plunged an additional two million people into poverty, according to a detailed study of the costs and consequences of the ...

Sat, 29 May 2021 15:57:57 GMT
No Need for Cotton Subsidy This Year
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government announced on Thursday that it will no longer subsidise the price of raw cotton, paid to the producers.

Sat, 29 May 2021 15:57:29 GMT
Mayor Promises Measures Against Police Brutality
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mayor of Maputo, Eneas Comiche, has promised that measures will be taken against four members of the municipal police who were caught on camera on Wednesday savagely beating an informal vendor.



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