[Nation] Heavy rains have marooned about 27,000 people in Mozambique's Boane district, about 30 kilometres south of the country's capital Maputo since last week, local councilman confirmed Monday.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Following a long campaign against him by President Filipe Nyusi and his praise singers, the Pope on 11 February withdrew the outspoken Catholic Bishop of Pemba, Luis Fernando Lisboa. In an interview with Rádio...

[Cosafa] Namibia netted a late equaliser to pick up a point in their debut at the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations in Mauritania on Monday.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Mozambique has agreed to repay $224 mn in corrupt loans from Brazil, apparently in exchange for Brazilian support for Mozambique to be elected in 2022 to one of the non-permanent seats on the UN Security Counci...

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] With no safe overland access, Palma is again facing a food crisis. There were two relief convoys of supply lorries from Mueda to Palma in January, but these have not been repeated. There has been heavy rain mak...

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Mozambique must secure an area of at least 25 km from the gas project on the Afungi peninsula,

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Montepuez Ruby Mining (MRM) has now delivered 105 houses for families in the resettlement village of Namanhumbir, built by the mining company, to re-house Nthoro communities previously lining on land given to t...

[CAF] The thought of the host nation being eliminated from the group stages is a nightmare for Mauritania head coach Mauril Njoya and that will be his driving factor when the Mourabitounes take on Mozambique at the Olympic Stadium in Nouakchott on We...

[UNHCR] Cabo Delgado, Mozambique -- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has partnered with the Catholic University of Mozambique to pilot a legal aid project for internally displaced persons in Mozambique.

[AIM] Maputo -- The mayor of Beira, and leader of Mozambique's second largest opposition party, the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), Daviz Simango, was evacuated to South Africa on Saturday night for health reasons.

[AIM] Maputo -- There have now been over 50,000 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease diagnosed in Mozambique, the health authorities announced on Sunday.

[AIM] Maputo -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has pledged to step up its programmes to respond to the humanitarian crisis in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.

[AIM] Maputo -- Angola is supporting Mozambique in the fight against the Covid-19 respiratory disease by sending a tank of oxygen to Maputo, for hospitalised patients who need respiratory support.

[CAF] East Africans Uganda will take on Mozambique in their opening game of the Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations at the Olympic Stadium on Nouakchott on Monday afternoon. This will be the first time ever that the two countries will be playing at the ...

[RFI] Recent reports indicate that attacks by Islamist militants in the Cabo Delgado area of northern Mozambique are dwindling. But the death of the chief of operations this week calls for strategic changes, local media reports.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] A seizure of drugs on a beach in Nacala Porto district shows that the Cabo Delgado war has pushed the trade south to the coast of Nampula.

[Cosafa] The Mozambique team are on their way to Mauritania for the Africa Under-20 Cup of Nations having made a stop-over in Casablanca, Morocco.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The minister of National Defence and Veterans of the Homeland, João Ernesto dos Santos, spoke last Tuesday in Luanda, dismayed by the death of the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Mozambique (CEMG), Eugénio Ussene...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican police have detained a prominent businessman, Minoj Hassan, in Pemba, capital of the northern province of Cabo Delgado, in possession of 180 kilos of the drug ephedrine, reports Friday's issue of the independent newsshe...

[AIM] Maputo -- The discovery that the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 is not effective against the South African strain of the coronavirus is a "bucket of cold water" poured over the hopes of the region, declared Mozambique's Deputy National Di...

[AIM] Maputo -- The trial of three people, a man and two women, accused of involvement on the kidnapping of businessman Manish Cantilal, could not begin on Monday, as scheduled, because the defence lawyers abandoned the courtroom.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican defence and security forces have killed six ringleaders of the islamist terrorists operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, according to a report in "Noticias de Defesa", an unofficial website that supports t...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican National Institute of Fisheries Research (IIP) and the Eden Association for Reforestation signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), under which the two sides agreed to work together in a mangrove restoration...

[AIM] Maputo -- The northern Mozambican province of Nampula has recorded so far 133 cases of cholera, after an outbreak that was first reported in January in the district of Meconta, which is also the epicentre of the disease.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Health Ministry on Monday reported a further five deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 312 new cases.

[UNFPA] Reflections by Dr. Julitta Onabanjo, UNFPA Regional Director for East and Southern Africa

[AIM] Maputo -- Young Mozambicans recruited by the terrorist groups operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado will not be harmed if they defect and turn themselves in to the authorities, President Filipe Nyusi pledged on Wednesday.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mayor of Maputo, Eneas Comiche, has promised to cancel land titles granted to people who have occupied areas of mangrove forest in the city, according to a report carried on Tuesday by the independent television station STV.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further 17 deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 800 new cases.

[Daily Maverick] Journalist Tom Bowker has been covering the Islamist insurgency in the far north of the country.