[AIM] Maputo -- Islamist terrorists beheaded four people last Sunday, in the town of Palma, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, according to a report in Thursday's issue of the independent newssheet "Carta de Mocambique".

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Attorney-General's Office (PGR) has accused the country's "traditional healers" of involvement in the trafficking in people and in human body parts.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's Minister of Justice, Helena Kida, has suspended the entire management of the Maputo Special Penitentiary for Women (EPEMM), better known as the Ndlavela Women's Prison, the independent television station STV reported on T...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Confederation of Mozambican Business Associations (CTA) on Wednesday said there should be no rise in the minimum wages, because of the negative consequences of the restrictive measures imposed to halt the spread of the Covid-19 re...

[AIM] London -- The British charity, the Vodaphone Foundation, and the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, have opened two Instant Network Schools in northern Mozambique to help with the education of nine thousand children who are missing their...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported that, for the second time this week, the number of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease exceeded 100.

[AIM] Maputo -- The South African Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, has at last admitted that South Africa needs to purchase more power from Mozambique, in order to cover the deficit caused by the closure of coal-fired power s...

[Agenzia Fides] Maputo -- "The interventions must integrate aspects of good coexistence between the displaced and the local population. The aid should not go only to the displaced, totally ignoring the local population", said His Exc. Mgr. António J...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Minister of Justice, Helena Kida, said on Wednesday that a commission of inquiry has been set up to probe allegations that guards at the Maputo Special Penitentiary for Women (EPEMM), better known as the Ndlavela Women'...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities have warned that the increased mobility of the population in the country's urban centres in recent weeks could create the conditions for a third wave of the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respir...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican authorities, according to Health Minister Armindo Tiago, are relying on the use of the available scientific evidence as their guiding light in responding to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, in a context wh...

[AIM] Maputo -- Nampula (Mozambique), 16 Jun (AIM) - Mozambique is launching a programme to improve forestry management in the face of illegal logging and other malpractices which are costing the country incalculable amounts.

[AIM] London -- A lack of funds is hampering the efforts of aid agencies to provide life saving assistance and protection to 1.1 million people in the northern Mozambican provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula, according to the United Nations ...

[AIM] Maputo -- Two of Mozambique's mobile phone operators, TMcel and Vodacom, met in Maputo on Tuesday, under the mediation of the regulator, the Mozambique National Communications Institute (INCM), in an attempt to prevent Vodacom from denying TMce...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities reported on Tuesday that the Covid-19 positivity rate (the proportion of people tested who prove to be infected by the disease) for the previous 24 hours was 8.6 per cent.

[AIM] Maputo -- DP World, the company that holds the concession to operate the container terminal at Maputo Port, has launched a rail service between the port and Harare, reducing the transit time for containers travelling between Mozambique and Zimb...

[AIM] Maputo -- The mobile phone company Vodacom-Mocambique (a subsidiary of the South African company Vodacom) has threatened to end its interconnection with the publicly owned company TMcel, which would make it impossible for TMcel subscribers to r...

[AIM] Maputo -- The wide variety of initiatives crafted by the South Africa-based Peace Parks Foundation has not only contributed to reducing poaching in several Mozambican conservation areas, but has also boosted the livelihoods of thousands of peop...

[AIM] Maputo -- Ossufo Momade, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has accused the government of violating the peace agreement that he signed with President Filipe Nyusi in •ugust 2019, according to Tuesday's issue of the independe...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Monday expressed concern at the rise in the number of cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease reported over the past few days, warning that this could signal the advent of a third wave of the dis...

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[AIM] Health Minister Armindo Tiago on 31 May revealed that the country ranks fourth on the list of countries with high rates of HIV infections, with a national average rate of new infections estimated at 364 cases a day.

[AIM] The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has promised to increase its support for child victims of terrorism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado from US$51 to US$90 million.

[AIM] The Mozambican government on 2 June reiterated its appeal to the international community to mobilise more humanitarian assistance for the victims of terrorism in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. At a meeting in Maputo with the diplomatic ...

[AIM] The Cabo Delgado provincial court in northern Mozambique, sitting in the provincial capital, Pemba, on 1 June sentenced 11 Pakistani nationals to between ten and 19 years imprisonment for drug trafficking.

[AIM] President Filipe Nyusi on 2 June inaugurated a new water treatment plant in Moamba district, about 60 kilometres northwest of the capital, which will reduce restrictions on the water supply to the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area. The system wi...

[AIM] The Chinese armed forces on 3 June gave the Mozambican defence forces (FADM) 60,000 doses of vaccine against the Covid-19 respiratory disease. Signing the delivery note were the National Director of Military Health in the Mozambican Defence Min...

[AIM] The southern province of Inhambane is losing about a thousand hectares of forest a year, mostly for the production of wood fuel, according to a report in the daily newspaper "O Pais".

[AIM] The Mozambican government intends to restore mangrove forests over an area of 5,000 hectares across the country, by 2022, according to the national director of maritime and fishery policy, Felismina Antia. She was speaking on 8 June on a Radio ...

[AIM] Mozambique's new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Albertina MacDonald, on 8 June presented her credentials to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London. Speaking afterwards at a vin d'honneur, the High Commissioner lauded the lo...