The Mozambican government, through the National Directorate of State Assets, launched a new Platform for the Registration of Suppliers of Goods and Services to the State in Maputo on Thursday (25). This initiative aims to combat influence peddling, clientelism, undue intervention by business agents and other illegal practices in the country. In...
Mozambique Electricity spends more than 20 M$ annually on public lighting
The public company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is complaining about the high costs of public lighting throughout the country, which amount to 20 million dollars a year, a supply that has no purchase subsidy. Lighting covers cities, large urban centers, towns and neighbourhoods in all municipal territories and beyond, with...
Rail-port movement in Mozambique grew 8% last year
The Mozambican rail-port system transported around 26.6 million net tons in 2023 throughout the country, an increase of around 8% when compared to the previous period. On the lines operated by the public company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), cargo transportation also grew, reaching around...
Sealing of alcoholic beverages and tobacco earns the state more than 8 billion meticais
The Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) collected almost 8.1 billion meticais last year as a result of the implementation of the program to seal alcoholic beverages and manufactured tobacco. According to the deputy director-general of Customs, Fernando Alage, who was speaking yesterday, Wednesday (24), during the launch of the Border Control and Monitoring Project through...
Semi-collective transporters paralyze activities in Matola due to road degradation
Semi-collective passenger transporters operating on the Cinema 700 route in the city of Matola stopped their activities today, Wednesday (24), in protest at the precarious conditions of the roads, particularly Avenida 5 de Fevereiro. The protesters claim that the degradation and lack of proper maintenance of the access roads has caused significant damage...
Authorities suspend bus circulation in Namaacha due to poor road quality
The Matola Municipal Public Transport Company (ETM) has decided to suspend the circulation of buses in the municipal town of Namaacha, in Maputo province. The reason is the high state of degradation of some sections along the National Road Number 2 (N2). The fact is that with the degradation of some sections of this road...
Lisbon: Nyusi meets Portuguese PR again at business forum
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, will hold talks with his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, next Wednesday (24) in Lisbon, as part of a business forum. APIEX and CTA align strategies for business mission to Portugal The Business Forum between the two countries, taking place today...
Cabo Delgado: more than 6,000 tons of cashew nuts left illegally for Tanzania
More than six thousand tons of cashew nuts have illegally left the country for the United Republic of Tanzania, across the Rovuma border. The information was given to Zumbo FM Notícias by the Provincial Delegate of the Almond Institute of Mozambique in Cabo Delgado, Domingos Armando Guissemo. "Around 6,600 tons were transported to Tanzania...
Zambézia: Entrepreneurs invest 750 million dollars to produce cooking oil
A group of businessmen announced on Thursday in Nampula that they are going to disburse 750 million dollars for the production of edible palm oil in the district of Luabo, Zambezia province. In Nampula province, in the Nacala-Porto district, the RG Indústrias Group already produces edible oil based on soya and sunflower...
South African PetroSA expects to receive its first shipment of Mozambican gas by the end of this year
South African state oil and gas company PetroSA expects to receive the first shipment of gas from an agreement with Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) by the end of this year, the authorities said, quoted by Reuters. This effort, according to the oil company, is aimed at boosting gas supplies before...