The African Energy Chamber has revealed that the world has around 685 million people without access to electricity, the majority of whom, 590 million, live on the African continent. In the report The State of African Energy in 2025, the Chamber points out that Africa's economic development is intertwined with the urgency of...
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Protesters close road leading to MOZAL after teenager fatally shot
In the early hours of Thursday (05), the demonstrators decided to set up barricades and burn tires on the viaduct that joins National Road number 4 (N4), the main road used by MOZAL to transport aluminum from the factory to the Port of Maputo for export markets, in response to the fatal shooting of a...
Maxaquene to compete for access to Moçambola
After appealing the decision that put Maxaquene out of the qualifying pool, a new decision by the Football Licensing Commission's Appeals Body puts the "tricolores" in the running for access to Moçambola 2025. This Thursday, the Appeals Body announced in a document that it had upheld the appeal by the...
More than 60% of Mozambicans have access to drinking water, according to Nyusi
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, said that 63.6% of the Mozambican population has access to drinking water, corresponding to 20 million people. Filipe Nyusi was speaking yesterday at the inauguration of the water supply system in Pemba, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique. "At the beginning of my...
Three million Mozambicans have gained access to drinking water in the last four years
The Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Carlos Mesquita, said that since 2020, three million people have had access to drinking water. "So far in this government cycle, around three million people have been additionally covered with safe water supply services and around...
Mobile phone signal has yet to reach 18 communities in Chicualacuala
Around 18 communities still have no telephone signal and the problem affects more than 5,000 people in the Chicualacuala district of Gaza province. According to Notícias, for the population to access "modern" communication, they have to travel around 50 kilometers on foot or in carts to the radius of...
Condominiums make it difficult to carry out a population census
The National Statistics Institute (INE) says it is having difficulties gaining access to the inside of condominiums and determining the number of households and their data. The institution says this is due to the restrictive security policies imposed on condominiums. In INE's view, it was to be hoped that such difficulties would not...
OCS says user fee constrains access to health care in Mozambique
The user fee, which patients must pay, continues to be one of the biggest obstacles to accessing health services in Mozambique. This is the finding of the Citizen Observatory for Health (OCS) in a study released on Tuesday in Maputo. Entitled "Socioeconomic Effects of User Fees in the Health Sector", in...
One million Mozambicans to have access to electricity by 2022
By 2022, more than one million Mozambicans will have access to electricity for the first time and the country's 154 districts, their headquarters and 281 administrative posts will have been electrified. The information was given this Thursday by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, during the inauguration of the national electricity network at the...
Consuming chicken and other meats is not for everyone, says president of the Mozambican Poultry Industry
The President of the Mozambican Poultry Industry Association (AMIA), Zeiss Lacerda, said today that the consumption of chicken and other types of meat is not available to all citizens because it requires some financial stability. "In relation to meat, in general, the behavior, the consumption, is not for low-income consumers. So, in...