Mozambique

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities have recorded, in the last eight years, a reduction of AIDS-related deaths by 19 percent, which means that the 54,000 cases recorded in 2015 fell to 44,000 in 2023.

[AIM] Maputo -- A group of Islamist terrorists on Thursday invaded Mazeze Administrative Post, in Chiúre district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's fugitive presidential candidate, Venancio Mondlane, has called for yet another shutdown of Maputo and other cities.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Attorney-General's Office (PGR) has incinerated fourteen kilos of hashish found in the possession of four young men in Carioca neighbourhood, in the city of Pemba, capital of the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] In several Maputo streets, on Thursday mock graves were built, on which demonstrators put the names and photographs of key figures in the Frelimo Party - Filipe Nyusi, Bernardino Rafael, Daniel Chapo, Carlos Matsinhe, Verónica Macamo, Joaquim Chissano and Armando Guebuza. […]

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The attack on the Inhassoro police post put the South African petrochemical giant Sasol on maximum alert. In the district, 28 communities are identified as impacted by Sasol.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] In Mangungumeta, members of the public were demonstrating peacefully when police tried to disperse them by firing live ammunition. At least three demonstrators were hit.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Mass reactions to police shootings took place yesterday (Thursday 28 Nov). The police command in the village of Mangungumeta, Inhassoro district, Inhambane, was burnt down and firearms were seized by members of the public. Demonstrators killed a policeman in Mangungumeta.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] This week attacks have increased on police posts and Frelimo buildings. The police response has become more aggressive, with more than 85 people killed in the past month. An armoured car drove directly at protesters on Wednesday, and, for the first time, five embassies objected.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Eight people were shot and killed by police Wednesday to Friday (27-29 November), according to Plataforma Eleitoral Decide - 4 in Nampula, 3 in Maputo and 1 in Inhambane. Plataforma Decide and ACLED are the two groups keeping count. For the first period, 21 October and 12 November, Decide reported 40 protesters' […]

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Many people were injured Wednesday and Thursday (27-28 November) in Nampula city, some shot by the security forces during protests against the allegedly fraudulent results of the elections held on 9 October. On Wednesday Mozambican police shot three people dead .

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] At a press conference, the President of Podemos, Albino Forquilha, announced that criminal proceedings against the Mozambican government have been submitted to the International Criminal Court for the murders of demonstrators. Podemos argues that deliberate orders were given to shoot demonstrators dead.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] President Filipe Nyusi made an appeal on Friday in Gaza and said that citizens need ''cool heads'' to solve the post-election tensions. He urged young people to focus on the development of the country. He asked for an end to the destruction of infrastructures, and of the deaths of civilians and police agents.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Frelimo is pushing the Constitutional Council to announce the election results as soon as possible, so that Daniel Chapo could be inaugurated as president quickly. Some members of the Political Commission and Central Committee believe that Frelimo must remain firm and not yield to pressure from the demonstrators. The […]

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The Mozambican Constitution (art150) says that "the President of the Republic shall be sworn into office by the President of the Constitutional Council in a public ceremony before the deputies of the Assembly of the Republic" (Parliament), which means after the parliament takes office. The Constitutional Council (CC) […]

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Mozambique must be the only country in the world where it takes so long to know the results of an election. 50 days have passed since the elections were held, and the results have still not been validated. But it was 91 days five years ago.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Mozambican and foreign civil society are financing and orchestrating the protests against election fraud "with the objective of creating widespread chaos and subverting the established constitutional order" and destabilising the nation, said the Deputy General Commander of the Mozambican Police, Fernando Tsucana, […]

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Saturday inaugurated three secondary schools budgeted at 190 million meticais (about 2.9 million dollars at the current exchange rate), in the central province of Zambézia.

[AIM] Maputo -- The deputy general commander of the Mozambican police force (PRM), Fernando Tsucana, has clamed that the demonstrations against alleged fraud in the 9 October general elections are financed by civil society organisation, and by Mozambican and foreign "individuals of bad faith'.

[MSF] "I have always been passionate about medicine, but that passion deepened when my mother was diagnosed with diabetes and also contracted HIV while caring for her sister," says HIV specialist Dr Filomena Januário, who works for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in northern Mozambique.

[RFI] Mozambican security forces have been accused of using excessive force to suppress anti-government protests following disputed October elections. At least two people have died, with the UN calling for an investigation into an incident where a military vehicle struck a woman during protests in the capital Maputo.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] "We strongly condemn the escalating violence against civilians during the post-electoral period in Mozambique. This has included an incident on November 27 in which a vehicle of the Mozambican security forces accelerated toward a gathering of people and brutally struck a person," declared a very strong joint […]

A woman was run over by a military vehicle in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, on Wednesday, during protests against October's election results. The woman sustained head injuries. Mozambique’s armed forces said in a statement that they “accidentally ran over a citizen” and would take responsibility for her medical care at the hospitalMilitary vehicle […]

Woman sustains head injuries in incident in capital and police kill two protesters in northern cityA military vehicle mowed down a woman in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, as protests have gripped the southern African country weeks after an election that the opposition said was rigged.Videos of the incident on Wednesday that have been widely shared on […]

[AIM] Maputo -- Reports that US President-elect Donald Trump has recognised independent presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane as the winner of Mozambique's 9 October general election are entirely false, according to the Mozambique chapter of the regional press freedom body, MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa).

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican authorities, in cooperation with the Rwandan Forces, have authorized the return of the displaced population to their homes after they fled from Mucojo administrative post, Macomia district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, as a result of terrorist attacks.

[AIM] Maputo -- The political dialogue intended to solve the post-election crisis in Mozambique broke down on Tuesday before it had even started.

[AIM] Maputo -- The former chairperson of the Mozambican Bar Association (OAM), Tomás Timbane, believes that the current post-election crisis, which is characterized by social upheaval and mass demonstrations, must serve as an opportunity to "rebuild the Mozambican State through an holistic debate.'

[AIM] Maputo -- The judges of the Constitutional Council, Mozambique's highest body in matters of electoral law, claim that they have been receiving death threats through messages "sent to their phones or posted on social media', at a moment when the body is expected to announce the final results of the presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections […]

[AIM] Maputo -- The international NGO, Human Rights Watch (HRW), claims that the Mozambican security forces killed at least 10 children and injured dozens more during mass demonstrations called by the presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane in order to protest against the allegedly fraudulent results of the elections held on 9 October.