The spokesman for the Council of Ministers said today in Maputo that there are no conditions for declaring a State of Emergency in Cabo Delgado province, which is witnessing an upsurge in terrorist attacks. Cabo Delgado: Insurgents step up attacks in Muidumbe, Macomia and Chiúre "It is not yet understood that the conditions have been created for the decree of...
The latest terrorist attacks have led 67,321 people to move from their areas of origin in Cabo Delgado province to safer places, the spokesman for the Council of Ministers said today. According to Filmão Suaze, the figure corresponds to 14,270 families who have sought refuge in the district of Eráti, in the border province of Nampula,...
Sociedade de Desenvolvimento do Porto de Maputo (MPDC) is to invest 15 million dollars in social responsibility projects, revealed the Director General, Osório Lucas. As he explained recently in a meeting with journalists, this is an investment in addition to the new Port of Maputo concession addendum, valued at just over 2.6 billion...
On Friday (23), the government and the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) signed an addendum extending the concession contract for the Port of Maputo. The deal is valued at 2.6 billion US dollars and authorizes MPDC to continue its operations in Maputo for another 25 years, counting from...
The government has reservations about moving forward with the possible decision on whether or not Fly Modern Ark (FMA) will continue to manage Mozambique Airlines (LAM). "Regarding the renewal or conclusion of the contract, I say that these are aspects that are under discussion. There are very critical details. As a government, we understand that they need to be...
The President of the Economic Associations of Mozambique - CTA, Agostinho Vuma, suggested, on Thursday (22), in Maputo, strategies to combat kidnappings and abductions, including revising the organic statute of the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC), creating a specific force and investing in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to the representative...
The Business Robustness Index in Mozambique advanced by one percentage point in the last quarter of 2023, standing at 30%, compared to 29% in the previous quarter, the President of the Economic Associations - CTA revealed today. "This performance, although higher than the previous quarter, is quite fragile," said Agostinho Vuma, at the presentation of the 14th edition of the...
The Mozambican state could raise around eight billion dollars by extending the concession contract for the Port of Maputo, the Director General of the Port of Maputo Development Company revealed on Wednesday (21). The government has decided to extend the Port of Maputo concession contract for another 25 years,...
On Friday (23), the government will sign an addendum extending the Port of Maputo's concession contract for a further 25 years from 2033, as a strategy to deal with future developments at the Port of Durban in South Africa. The information was revealed today by the Director General of the...
There are indications that terrorism in Cabo Delgado is being financed by organized crime, according to the representative in Mozambique of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). "It is possible that organized crime is financing terrorist activities [in Cabo Delgado] through its illicit activities," said...