Mozambique
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:45:12 GMTU.S. 'Green Berets' Training Mozambican Marines
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] US Special Forces soldiers began training Mozambican marines this week, Colonel Richard Schmidt, the Deputy Commander of US Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA), announced in Maputo Monday (15 Mar).
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:09:16 GMTMozambique Sets Up Special Unit for Airport Cargo Control
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique has become the first Southern African Development Community (SADC) country to set up a Special Unit for Airport Cargo Control, intended to strengthen the capacity to spot and seize drugs and other illicit products that may ...
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:09:14 GMT114 People With Albinism Are Missing, Says Human Rights Commission
[AIM] Maputo -- From 2014 to the present at least 114 people suffering from albinism have gone missing in Mozambique, according to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), cited by the independent television station, STV.
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:10:38 GMTU.S. Names ISIS-Mozambique and its 'Leader' as Global 'Terrorists'
[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The US on 10 March designated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - Mozambique (ISIS-Mozambique) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and the man it says is head of ISIS-Mozambique, Tanzanian Abu Yasir Hassan,...
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:09:16 GMTNyusi Warns Against Carelessness in the Education System
[AIM] Maputo -- Monapo (Mozambique), 19 Mar (AIM) - Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi warned on Friday that his government will never allow acts of irresponsibility to drag the country's educational system into collapse.
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:09:14 GMTDisturbances At Food Distribution in Palma
[AIM] Maputo -- Food distribution on Wednesday in the town of Palma, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, ended in gunshots when the defence and security forces tried to restore order to an unruly crowd, according to a report in Frida...
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:09:13 GMTCovid-19 - Four Deaths, 255 New Cases and 987 Recoveries
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further four deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 255 new cases - but in the same 24 hour period, 987 people made a full recovery from Covid-19.
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:09:10 GMTNyusi Lays Foundation Stone for Zambezia Power Line
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi laid on Thursday the foundation stone for the construction of an electricity substation and a 366 kilometre high voltage power line, running across the central province of Zambezia from Chimuara to Al...
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:57:02 GMTChange Will Come From Us - a Conversation With Quitéria Guirengane
[African Arguments] Quitéria Guirengane is a Mozambican female activist and the President of the Mozambican Young Women Leaders' Network. Trained in social and organizational psychology, Quitéria is today one of the most prominent female activists ...
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:48:10 GMTPM Demands Unrelenting Stance Against Corruption
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Wednesday demanded that the new leadership of the General Inspectorate of the Public Administration take an unrelenting and proactive approach in the fight against corruption.
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:48:10 GMTSabotage Leads to Power Cuts
[AIM] Maputo -- Recent power cuts in central Maputo were the result of the theft of components from transformer posts and other electrical installations, according to a report in Thursday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:48:05 GMTCovid-19 - Just One Death Reported On Wednesday
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported just one death from the Covid-19 respiratory disease - the lowest death toll for any 24 hour period so far this year.
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:50:48 GMTBank of Mozambique Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged
[AIM] Maputo -- The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Mozambique (CPMO), meeting in Maputo on Wednesday, decided to leave the bank's key interest rates unchanged.
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:50:47 GMTTerrorists 'Must Regret Attacking Mozambique' - Nyusi
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi declared on Tuesday that the new leadership of the Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM) must act so that the terrorists operating in parts of the northern province of Cabo Delgado "regret ever having dared ...
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:48:10 GMTEmergency Work On Zambezia Road Promised
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's Minister of Public Works, Joao Machatine, has promised that earthworks will begin shortly to make passable key stretches of a regional road in the central province of Zambezia, reports the independent television station S...
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:50:48 GMTMore Cuban Health Professionals Arrive
[AIM] Maputo -- A group of 39 Cuban health experts in intensive care, including doctors and nurses, will join Mozambican frontline workers, over the next few days, in providing health care to patients hospitalised in Covid-19 isolation centres.
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:50:47 GMTNyusi Challenges Acipol to Diversify Training Courses
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday challenged the Police Science Academy (ACIPOL), in Maputo, to continue diversifying its training courses in the fields of public security and administration of justice, pivotal for the co...
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:50:47 GMTU.S. Grant for Water and Sanitation
[AIM] Maputo -- The United States government and the Mozambican Ministry of Public Works have signed a memorandum of understanding to coordinate the investment of more than 90 million dollars which the US is currently providing to strengthen and expa...
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:50:47 GMTAuthorities Concerned With Violations of Covid-19 Decree
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's National Inspectorate of Economic Activities (INAE) has expressed its increasing concern at the violations, of the presidential decree enacted to stop the spread of the Covid-19 respiratory disease across the country.
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:50:42 GMTCovid-19 - Three Deaths, 287 New Cases and 310 Recoveries
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further three deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, 287 new cases and 310 recoveries.
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 05:33:49 GMTU.S. Boosts Country's Fight Against Terror Threats
[Nation] The United States government is deploying its Special Operations Forces to train Mozambican marines for two months as part of renewed support for efforts to prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism.
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:06:35 GMTMozambique Militants Beheading Children - NGO
[East African] Mozambican militants are beheading children instilling fear in the north of the country, a British charity group reported on Tuesday.
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:37:04 GMTU.S. Military Joins the Fight Against Isis in Mozambique
[Daily Maverick] Army Green Berets are already training Mozambique marines -- report.
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:04:29 GMTChildren As Young As 11 Brutally Murdered in Cabo Delgado As Conflict Intensifies
[savethechildren_uk] Maputo -- Children as young as 11 are being beheaded in the Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado, Save the Children said, as conflict continues to displace thousands. The agency recently spoke to displaced families who reported ho...
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:07:35 GMTU.S. Provides Military Training to Mozambican Marines
[Africom] U.S. Embassy in Mozambique Mozambique -- On March 15, the U.S. Government and the Government of Mozambique launched a two-month Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) training program. U.S. Special Operations Forces will train Mozambican m...
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:51:16 GMTUnited States Training Mozambican Marines
[AIM] Maputo -- United States Special Operations Forces have begun to train Mozambican marines, according to a press release from the US embassy.
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:51:16 GMTNearly 6,000 Households Facing Hunger in Manica
[AIM] Maputo -- Chimoio (Mozambique), 16 Mar (AIM) - About 6,000 people are on the verge of a severe food crisis over the next four months, as result of poor yields recorded in the first half of the farming season (2020/21) in Tambara district, in th...
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:09:32 GMTActivists Are Working Together to Break the Silence On Intimate Partner Violence
[Spotlight Initiative] Eight girls sit on straw mats in a dusty courtyard in Gaza province, southern Mozambique. They share their stories about abuse, violence and overcoming trauma.
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:51:16 GMTAriel Glaser Donates Two Mobile Clinics
[AIM] Maputo -- The Ariel Glaser Foundation, an NGO working against paediatric AIDS in Mozambique, on Monday delivered two mobile clinics which will extend access to health services to nearly 3,000 youths living in Maputo city and the adjacent city o...
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:51:16 GMTMozambique to Receive FAO Assistance to Fight Illegal Fishing
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique will receive, over the next two years, technical assistance from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the framework of the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA), to combat illegal, unregulated and...