Mozambique

[AIM] Maputo -- NYUSI TO STEP UP FIGHT AGAINST JIHADISTS, WHILE OFFERING RENAMO DISSIDENTS A TRUCE

[AIM] Maputo -- According to the Mozambican health authorities, the deaths of a further four people from the Covid-19 respiratory illness have been notified in the last 48 hours.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- The Inspector general of Police Simon Sirro has confirmed that some 300 militants from Mozambique attacked Kitaya village last week killing several people and destroying property.

[Malaria Consortium] Mozambique's Ministry of Health officials met with staff from Malaria Consortium at a kick off meeting to launch an exciting new research study that could see further gains made towards malaria elimination in the country.

[Daily Maverick] With the conflict in northern Mozambique showing no signs of stopping, the question is, where is Cabo Delgado province heading? Based on the multiple reasons behind the conflict, and considering the increasing international political and economic interests in Cabo Delgado and how conflicts have been managed in post-independence Mozambique, […]

[AIM] Maputo -- The port of Maputo recorded a drop of 13 per cent in the volume of cargo in transit handled in the January-August period this year, compared with the same months in 2019.

[AIM] Maputo -- A group of business people from the central Mozambican city of Beira has denounced the failure of the Mozambican state to protect citizens against the wave of kidnappings in the major cities.

[AIM] Maputo -- According to the National Health Institute (INS), 3.56 per cent of the population in the southern Mozambican city of Matola have been in contact with the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday met with Ossufo Momade, leader of the main opposition party, Renamo, to discuss progress in demobilising the Renamo militia, under the peace agreement the two men signed in August 2019.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Health Ministry on Wednesday announced a further death from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 141 new cases.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Mozambique (CPMO), meeting in Maputo on Wednesday, decided to keep the bank's key interest rates unchanged.

[Daily Maverick] Mozambique's central bank has mooted investing more than half the revenue from its expected natural gas bonanza into a sovereign wealth fund. This might not be a bad move, but history suggests it is more likely to take the Angolan route than the Norwegian one -- and that would spell disaster on a grand scale.

[AIM] Maputo -- Ireland has promised to grant five million Euros (5.9 million US dollars) to support the implementation of Mozambique's Education Sector Strategic Plan between 2021/2029, through the Education Sector Support Fund (FASE).

[AIM] Maputo -- The authorities in the central Mozambican province of Manica have suspended the operations of two gold mining companies, accused of polluting the river Revue, according to a report by the Portuguese news agency Lusa.

[AIM] Maputo -- An epidemiological survey in the northern Mozambican city of Lichinga, capital of the northern province of Niassa, has shown that only 0.3 per cent of the city's population has been exposed to the coronavirus, which causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

[AIM] Maputo -- Storms, torrential rains and swollen rivers claimed 22 lives in the first three weeks of the 2020-2021 rainy season, according to Mozambican government spokesperson and Deputy Justice Minister, Filimao Suaze.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Maputo City Court on Tuesday sentenced Gama Nhampalele to 11 years imprisonment for his role in the theft of over 155 million meticais (about 2.15 million US dollars) from the Mozambican treasury, via the Centre for the Development of Financial Information Systems (CEDSIF).

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday announced three further deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC), in partnership with the community risk management committees, is putting in place preventive efforts in response to the rainy season, which begins in October, said on Monday the INGC delegate in the northern province of Nampula, Alberto Armando.

[AIM] Maputo -- The death rate in Mozambique from the Covid-19 respiratory disease remains lower than that of any other mainland southern African country that is keeping figures.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Supreme Court has granted authorisation to the Attorney-General's Office (PGR) to seek the extradition to Mozambique of three bankers from Credit Suisse involved in the scandal of the country's "hidden debts", according to a report in Tuesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican defence and security forces claim to have killed 270 islamist terrorists in the region of Awasse, in Mocimboa da Praia district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, according to the website "Noticias de Defesa de Mocambique", which acts as an unofficial mouthpiece for the Defence Ministry.

[AIM] Maputo -- The number of cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease diagnosed in Mozambique now exceeds 11,000, the Deputy National Director of Public Health, Benigna Matsinhe, announced on Monday.

[Citizen] At least 20 people were killed in fresh attacks in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, an NGO said Sunday in a report.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Education Ministry claimed on Monday that about 90 per cent of the country's secondary schools are fit to resume face-to-face teaching.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Maputo City Court is due to deliver its verdict and sentence on Tuesday, in the case of the theft of 155 million meticais (about 2.15 million US dollars at current exchange rates) from the Mozambican treasury via the Centre for the Development of Financial Information Systems (CEDSIF), an institution linked to the Finance Ministry.

[AIM] Maputo -- The human rights body Amnesty International has protested at the denial of justice for Mozambican women's rights activist Josina Machel, who was blinded in one eye in an attack by her partner of the time, Rofino Licuco, in October 2015.

[AIM] Maputo -- The islamist terrorists operating in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado have carried their war across the border into Tanzania, where they murdered and beheaded 20 people on Wednesday night, according to a report in Monday's issue of the independent newssheet "Carta de Mocambique", citing Tanzanian sources.

[AIM] Maputo -- A further 241 people have recovered from the Covid-19 respiratory disease over the previous 24 hour period, the Mozambican Health Ministry reported on Sunday.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Maputo -- Aid groups say an insurgency in Cabo Delgado province has forced more than 300,000 people to escape further south