Mozambique

[RFI] For almost a decade, an Islamist group has terrorised Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado. Despite vast reserves of rubies, timber and natural gas, the region remains the country's poorest. This first instalment of Mozambique Exposed - an investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories to which RFI contributed - examines how exploitation of […]

[ISS] Despite the navy's severe resource constraints, Operation Copper seems to have been continued for political rather than practical reasons.

[MSF] In May, the district of Ancuabe in northern Mozambique was repeatedly hit by armed attacks carried out by the Islamic State Mozambique (ISM). Combined with widespread fear of further violence, these attacks forced thousands of people to flee their homes.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The Catholic bishop of Quelimane, OsoÌrio Citora Afonso, was shot dead in the early hours of Saturday 6 June at the Episcopal Palace in the ZambeÌzia provincial capital. He was killed with an AKM-type firearm. He was born in Ribauè, Nampula in 1972. In 2025, he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Quelimane and, […]

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] "Dozens of opposition members and journalists have been abducted or killed in Mozambique since the 2024 general elections. While authorities have largely failed to investigate the violence, exclusive reporting reveals the involvement of figures linked to the ruling party Frelimo and Mozambican security forces in […]

[Malaria Consortium] Two recent publications from Malaria Consortium and partners show how digital innovation is transforming health campaigns and immunisation delivery in one of the world's most challenging settings.

[HRW] Washington -- Pacts Require Abortion Surveillance, Rights to Specimen Sharing, Data Access

[Agenzia Fides] Quelimane -- The Catholic Church in Mozambique is mourning the death of Bishop Osório Citora Afonso, IMC, Bishop of the Diocese of Quelimane. The news - reported to Fides by local sources - has caused shock and grief to the entire Catholic community, as well as amongst the many people who knew him. The bishop was found dead on the morning […]

[allAfrica] For generations, Africa has exported its wealth and imported its future.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Commissioner of the Border Management Authority (BMA), Dr Michael Masiapato, confirmed that the BMA successfully processed the departure of 933 Mozambican nationals from South Africa to Mozambique through the Lebombo Port of Entry.

[Daily Maverick] He says he was cheated out of victory in 2024. Now Venâncio Mondlane is building his party to win in 2029.

[SAnews.gov.za] Police in the Western Cape are investigating the murders of two Mozambican nationals and an 18-year-old South African following violent unrest in KwaNonqaba, Mossel Bay, over the weekend.

[RFI] Mozambique has claimed that five of its nationals were killed in xenophobic attacks in South Africa at the weekend, as efforts got under way on Tuesday to repatriate hundreds of others.

[SAnews.gov.za] Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina will host and officially welcome her counterparts from Eswatini and Mozambique at the inaugural Council of Ministers Meeting of the Incomati and Maputo Watercourse Commission (INMACOM) on Friday, 5 June, in Boksburg, Johannesburg.

[World Bank] Water drives over half of Mozambique's economy, 90% of exports, and 84% of jobs--yet floods and droughts cost 6.7% of GDP each year. A new World Bank Water Security Diagnostic and the ProAguas Compact 2026-2036 chart a path forward: $14.3 billion by 2030 to secure resources, deliver services, build climate resilience, and mobilize finance. […]

[Bhekisisa] BLURB: Northern Mozambique has been absorbing what humanitarian groups call "multiple shocks" for years. Conflict, cyclones, cholera, displacement; each arriving before the last has been processed, each landing on a health system already buckling. What happens to people's minds in conditions like these? And who is there to help?

[Daily News] Dodoma -- TANZANIA and Mozambique have agreed to strengthen cooperation in defence and security matters, particularly in the fight against terrorism and criminal activities threatening peace and stability in Eastern and Southern Africa.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] An IMF team will visit Mozambique in June to discuss a new loan, in a sudden reversal of its position announced on 23 April. A year ago in April 2025 Mozambique and the IMF suspended (but did not cancel) the programme, because Mozambique could not or would not meet IMF demands, particularly devaluation and cuts to the […]

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Attacks of members of Venancio Mondlane's party Anamola (National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique) continue:

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The main income for 75% of Mozambicans families comes from farming but two thirds of them (3 million families) farm less than 1 hectare and most do not grow enough to feed their families, the Agricultural Census (CAP) published Wednesday (20 May) shows.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe has deported twenty-nine undocumented Mozambican nationals after they were intercepted in Chipinge, Mutare and Harare and found to be in the country illegally.

[New Times] Mozambique's Minister of Defence, Cristóvão Artur Chume, on Thursday, May 21, visited the Rwanda Security Forces (RSF) deployed in his country's northern province of Cabo Delgado.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Rui Mate analysed only Coral Sul because it is the only Cabo Delgado gas project in operation and thus the only one with published data to check his projections for the first three years - and his projections agree with public data. Coral Norte, now under construction, will look very much like Coral Sul. Both are in […]

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The Italian head of the Kaya Kwanga tourist and residential complex on the Marginal (coast road) in Maputo, Umberto Sartori, died Friday (15 May) in the top security prison (known as BO). He had been arrested on 21 April accused of drug trafficking, money laundering and forgery, and had refused to eat. The criminal […]

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Gas will generate billions of dollars in state revenue, but much less than predicted and not for a decade. Other investments in agriculture and mineral processing would generate more money - and more development - sooner. This is the conclusion of the what is probably the first detailed study of gas contracts and […]

[New Times] Rwanda and Mozambique will continue security cooperation in Cabo Delgado under a bilateral arrangement between the two governments, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe, has said.

[Daily Maverick] Official voters' rolls from Mozambique's 2024 elections reveal fraudulent registrations, including Zanu-PF activists and Zimbabweans without voting rights.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] At least 60 people have been killed in the past month, accused of using sorcery to shrink or steal penises. It is believed that a look, or a touch, or a handshake is enough to do it. A person is accused, a mob forms, and the victim is lynched. The panic started in Cabo Delgado on 18 April and has spread south to all […]