[UN News] UN agencies are ramping up efforts on Tuesday to help communities in Mozambique hit hard by Tropical Cyclone Eloise, which barrelled through the country just three weeks after the devastating Tropical Storm Chalane.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Vale is pulling out of Tete as part of its climate emergency commitment to end coal production. Several announcements last week set out a complex planned withdrawal.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican authorities have arrested a Chinese citizen in connection with the illegal export from the northern port of Pemba of 82 containers full of unprocessed logs.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Monday urged households living in flood-prone areas to move to safer areas, and thus avoid possible loss of life, and damage to their property.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Ministry of Health announced on Monday that it has enough stocks of Covid-19 tests as well as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health staff for the first six months of this year.

[Cosafa] COSAFA nations Mozambique and Namibia have learned their fate after the draw was made for the 2021 Africa Under-20 Cup of Nations that will be staged in Mauritania from February 14-March 4.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Cyclone Eloise hit Beira and Buzi Saturday morning (23 Jan) with 120 km/h winds. The cyclone passed south-west and is now a tropical storm in South Africa. Six people have been killed.

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[AIM] Maputo -- The first batch of vaccines against the Covid-19 respiratory disease could arrive in Mozambique in February or March, Health Minister Armindo Tiago announced on Monday.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's Deputy National Director of Public Health, Benigna Matsinhe, on Monday announced that a further 14 patients have died of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

[CAF] Mozambique were drawn in group A of the impending Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Mauritania 2021 besides the hosts Mauritania, Cameroon and Uganda.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican authorities have arrested a Chinese citizen in Vilankulo district, in the southern province of Inhambane, who was found in possession of 8.4 kilos of seahorses.

[AIM] Maputo -- Four people are known to have died when cyclone Eloise hit the central Mozambican city of Beira on Saturday morning, according to a preliminary assessment of the damage by the city's mayor, Daviz Simango, speaking to the independent t...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday announced the deaths of a further eight people from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 790 new cases.

[DW] Tropical Cyclone Eloise has hit Mozambique, bringing rain and powerful winds of around 130 kilometers per hour. Forecasters believe it will now move toward Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa.

[UNFPA] Sofala -- In the early hours of 23 January, Cyclone Eloise - a category two storm bringing winds of up to 160 kilometres per hour - made landfall in Sofala Province in central Mozambique, an area still recovering from the devastation caused b...

[AIM] Maputo -- As forecast, Cyclone Eloise hit the central Mozambican city of Beira early on Saturday morning, with winds of 140 kilometres an hour and gusts of up to 160 kilometres an hour, according to the independent television station, STV.

[allAfrica] Geneva -- The Mozambican city of Beira and the region around it are bracing for the impact of tropical storm Eloise, expected to make landfall soon.

[AIM] Maputo -- Cyclone Eloise is on a course that will take it straight to the central Mozambican city of Beira, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC), operated by the United States navy.

[South African Weather Service] "Eloise" is currently situated over the northern parts of Madagascar, expected to move south-westwards and enter the Mozambique Channel tomorrow, 21 January 2021. Once entering these warm waters, "Eloise" is expected t...

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's National Inspectorate of Economic Activities (INAE) seized about 220 tonnes of cement in January, after a nationwide inspection drive intended to discourage price speculation, largely carried out by informal retailers.

[AIM] Maputo -- Traffic lights are working again in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula, after three weeks in which they were completely dead because Nampula Municipal Council refused to pay for the electricity they use, according to a report by ...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Attorney-General's Office (PGR) on Thursday announced the arrest of eight people in connection with the theft of 11 million meticais (about 149,000 US dollars, at current exchange rates) from the Mozambican tax authorit...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further 829 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 12 more deaths.

[allAfrica] An excerpt on Mozambique from the annual Human Rights Watch publication, World Report 2021:

[UN News] UN agencies voiced deep concern on Wednesday over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, where attacks by armed groups have forced more than 565,000 to flee their homes.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday urged the leadership of the National Elections Commission (CNE) to work with objectivity, impartiality, competence and zeal.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has condemned last weekend's police action in Maputo, where police units raided shops, bars and even restaurants, and seized alcoholic drinks on the pretext of implementing the government's ...

[AIM] Maputo -- The amount of cargo handled by the port of Maputo in 2020 declined by 13 per cent, in comparison with the 2019 figure.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Japanese company Mitsui, has announced its intention to pull out of the coal mining business in Mozambique.