The 4th edition of the Mozal Arts and Culture Awards gala has been officially postponed. According to a statement, the postponement of the event is due to the current situation of social tension in various parts of the country. Kulungwana and Mozal "believe that better days will come and that peace and...
The date for the start of the rehabilitation work on National Road Number One (N1), the backbone of the country, may change, following the postponement of the launch of the public tender to select the contractor. Originally scheduled to start in October and November, the work has been delayed due to...
The Frelimo party's choice of candidate for President of the Republic will have to be delivered by caesarean section. The debate is now in its third day and there is no consensus on who should be the future leader of the Frelimo party and possibly replace the President of the Republic in the Presidency. What is happening is that the...
Health workers decided on Wednesday (27) to suspend their strike for 30 days. The strike was scheduled to resume today, Thursday, but the workers say that they have reached some consensus with the government. According to the Association of United and Solidarity Health Professionals of Mozambique (APSUSM), who are complaining about poor working conditions, the...
The cholera outbreak in Zambia has claimed 518 lives since October, Zambian Health Minister Sylvia Masebo announced on Wednesday, forcing the second postponement of the start of the school year. Zambia, which borders Angola, has been facing an increase in the cholera outbreak since October 2023 and is experiencing the worst epidemic...
The two largest opposition parties in Mozambique, Renamo and MDM, are against the approval to hold voter registration during the month of February and suggest that the process take place during the month of March. The main opposition parties claim that the date proposed by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), February 1,...
The Center for Public Integrity (CIP) says that the postponement of the district elections "until favorable conditions exist" was orchestrated to benefit the interests of the Frelimo party through internal tricks. An article by CIP highlights three moments in which the genesis of the juggling act by the party with a parliamentary majority to make the elections unfeasible was publicly...
Members of civil society based in Nampula province defend the holding of district elections scheduled for 2024. In their opinion, the country is in a position to bear all the costs of the process, which marks the consolidation of the decentralization in force. This position was expressed during a public hearing promoted by the...
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai (MDC-T), had its petition to the local Constitutional Court to postpone the country's general elections scheduled for August this year rejected on Tuesday. According to the president of the Supreme Court and the judiciary...
The Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) and Renamo today demanded the revocation of the commission set up to assess the relevance of the district elections, accusing the ruling party (Frelimo) of orchestrating a "gradual coup" against democracy in order to postpone the poll. The warning from the two opposition parties comes after parliament approved, just over...