Mozambique
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:37:41 GMTCourt Seizes Bus Company Workshops
[AIM] Maputo -- The Nampula provincial court in northern Mozambique has ordered the seizure of two workshops belonging to the company Nagi Investments, after Nagi failed to compensate passengers injured in a serious traffic accident, according to a r...
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:31:47 GMTMilitants Driven Back From Position in Mocimboa da Praia
[AIM] Maputo -- A terrorist group on Tuesday attacked a position of the Mozambican defence and security forces at the village of Roma, in Mocimboa da Praia district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, but were driven back by the defenders, acc...
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:29:17 GMTRehabilitation of Beira-Zimbabwe Railroad Underway
[AIM] Maputo -- The publicly owned Ports and Railway Company (CFM) on Wednesday started to replace tracks on the railway line connecting the Mozambican port city of Beira to Machipanda, on the border with landlocked Zimbabwe, as part of a 200 million...
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:27:15 GMTCovid-19 - Ten Deaths, 898 New Cases and 947 Recoveries
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported ten further deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, 898 new cases and 947 recoveries.
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:33:51 GMTAgriculture Minister Optimistic About Rice Harvest
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Agriculture Minister Celso Correia on Wednesday visited the country's two largest irrigation schemes, both in the Limpopo Valley, in the southern province of Gaza, and was optimistic that this year they will produce a bumpe...
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:28:28 GMTCameroon Eyes 100 Percent Record, Mozambique Play for Pride
[CAF] Cameroon's young Indomitable Lions have already booked a ticket to the quarter finals of the Total Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations with an assured spot on top of Group A.
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:07:49 GMTMauritania Beat Mozambique to Revive Knockout Hopes
[CAF] Hosts Mauritania secured their maiden victory in the Total Africa U-20 Cup of Nations after beating Mozambique 2-0 in Nouakchott to revive their hopes of qualifying for the quarter finals.
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:01:20 GMTThousands Displaced After Heavy Rains Hit
[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.
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:16:45 GMTPope Backs Nyusi Again, and Withdraws Critical Pemba Bishop
[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...
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:39:17 GMTNamibia Get Draw, but Mozambique Lose in Under-20 Afcon Openers
[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.
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:39:13 GMTGovt to Pay Corrupt Brazil Debt in Exchange for Security Council Seat Support
[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...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:30:40 GMTIsolated Palma Faces Food Crisis
[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...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:24:34 GMTMozambique Must Provide 25 km Security Cordon Before Total Restarts at Aungi
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Mozambique must secure an area of at least 25 km from the gas project on the Afungi peninsula,
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:18:13 GMTAre Ruby Mine Resettled Families Getting Luxury $95,000 Houses?
[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...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:53:01 GMTHosts Mauritania Look for Redemption As Mozambique Come Calling
[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...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:51:42 GMTLegal Aid Project On the Right to Documentation for Internally Displaced Persons
[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.
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:33:34 GMTMayor of Beira Evacuted to South Africa
[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.
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:32:16 GMTOver 50,000 Cases of Covid-19 Diagnosed
[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.
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:34:58 GMTICRC Plans to Step Up Humanitarian Support in Cabo Delgado
[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.
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:34:11 GMTAngola Sends Oxygen to Mozambique
[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.
Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:08:51 GMTUganda, Mozambique Step to the Pitch for Maiden Taste of U-20 Afcon
[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 ...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:54:55 GMTAttacks in Northern Mozambique Dwindling, Says Military
[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.
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:38:57 GMTCabo Delgado War Forces Drug Smugglers South
[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.
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:35:21 GMTMozambique Stop in Morocco On Their Way to Under-20 AFCON
[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.
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:30:55 GMTAngolan Minister Regrets Death of Mozambique's Armed Forces Chief
[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...
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:29:32 GMTDrug Seizure At Warehouse of Prominent Businessman
[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...
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:58:25 GMTProblems With Astrazeneca Vaccine Are 'Bucket of Cold Water'
[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...
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:47:12 GMTTrial of Kidnap Suspects Postponed
[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.
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:42:17 GMTTerrorist Commanders Killed
[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...
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:03:53 GMTNew Partnership for Mangrove Restoration
[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...