Mozambique

[Afrobarometer] Few citizens are aware of Japanese assistance to Mozambique.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The African Union chose its new leadership, and now faces several peace and security challenges which the International Crisis Group (ICG) described as "forbidding". This is an extract of ICG's briefing points to eight areas where the organisation can put its diplomatic weight to particularly good use.

[AIM] Maputo -- The riots and looting of December have plunged Mozambique into "almost a state of siege', Defence Minister Cristovao Chume has claimed.

The violent repression of protests reflects a wider trend as Africa’s younger voters lose faith in independence-era partiesThe bullet ripped through the young man’s face, scattering his teeth in a pool of blood on the concrete floor. As more gunshots rang through the air, the joyous sounds of thousands of people who had gathered in central Maputo on 9 […]

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[AIM] Maputo -- The office of Mozambique's former presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane has announced that it is breaking all ties with Podemos (Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique).

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican education authorities have announced that 88 schools will remain closed during the first days of the 2005 school year as a result of extreme violence carried out by Islamist terrorists in some districts of the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

[CPJ] "Help. I got shot and they keep shooting...I am dying."

[AIM] Maputo -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed its concern at the increase in cases of the kidnapping of minors by armed groups in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, where Islamist terrorists have been carrying out extreme violence against the local population.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maria Manuela Lucas, claims that the country has not yet received any notification of the deportation of citizens in an irregular situation following the mass deportations under way in the United States,

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) claims that the stories circulating on social media claiming that the president of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, has said that the former Mozambican president, Filipe Nyusi, should be imprisoned for crimes committed during his rule are false.

[AIM] Maputo -- Former Mozambican Presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane on Sunday ordered the cancellation of the Heroes' Day celebrations scheduled for Monday, 3 February.

[IPS] Maputo, Mozambique -- No illusions: Mozambique remains in crisis, despite the inauguration of Daniel Chapo as president and the establishment of a new parliament. While the widespread allegations of massive electoral fraud during the elections on 9 October 2024 were the immediate trigger for the unrest, the protests revealed deeply entrenched […]

[allAfrica] The current unrest in Mozambique is more than just a response to electoral issues - it is a deeper movement that challenges the country's political and social structures.

[AIM] Maputo -- 31 people are known to have died of measles out of a total number of 1,191 cases diagnosed in central and northern Mozambique between 9 July and 28 January.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Rwandan security forces have announced that they will send a new contingent to support the fight against Islamist terrorism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Mozambican authorities have assured thousands of refugees who fled to Malawi following the recent post-election unrest that peace has been restored in their country and that they are welcome to return home.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) on Wednesday urged the Defence and Interior Ministries to explain, with maximum urgency, the alleged involvement of members of the defence and security forces in the disappearance of journalist Arlindo Chissale in the northern province of Cabo […]

[AIM] Maputo -- Traffic once again ground to a halt on the Maputo-South Africa motorway (National Road EN4) on Wednesday morning, as motorists refused to pay the tolls at the tollgate between the cities of Maputo and Matola.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's former presidential candidate, Venancio Mondlane, stressed on Tuesday that he is willing to participate in a dialogue with President Daniel Chapo - but Chapo has not yet contacted him.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique is short of 12,000 primary and secondary teachers, required for the 2025 school year which is due to begin on Friday.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Monday stressed the urgency of revising the country's election legislation, and the laws on decentralisation.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government on Tuesday reversed its predecessor's policy and agreed to pay the traditional New Year Bonus to all staff in the state administration.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Tuesday told his six newly appointed Ministers that "you are called upon to serve the county at a moment of significant changes, with great expectations and hopes deposited in our work, individually and collectively'.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Monday appointed six more ministers to his government, including Nyeleti Mondlane, the daughter of the man regarded as the founder of Mozambican nationality, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane

[AIM] Maputo -- The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Mozambique (CPMO), at a meeting in Maputo on Monday decided to cut its benchmark interest rate, the MIMO rate, by 50 base points.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Monday swore into office Joaquim Sive as the new General Commander of the Mozambican Police (PRM), telling him that his task "is to regain the people's trust in the police'.

[AIM] Maputo -- The executive order issued by Donald Trump on 20 January, suspending almost all foreign aid programmes for 90 days, is now in effect in Mozambique.

[AIM] Maputo -- Traffic across the suspension bridge over the Bay of Maputo came to a halt on Monday when drivers refused to pay the toll for using the bridge.

[The Conversation Africa] Mozambique's parliament and its new president, Daniel Chapo, were sworn in in mid-January 2025 after a tumultuous post-election period of protests, barricades and police violence.