The Center for Public Integrity (CIP), through its Election Bulletin, denounces the falsification of personal documents by people who are not yet qualified to register. According to the document, five teenagers were caught at the Malila Complete Primary School, 3 km from the town of Majune, with adulterated personal ballots....
Four million teenagers between the ages of 10 and 18 will be the target of a vaccination campaign against cervical cancer in the second half of this year throughout the country, an official source said. The director of the Expanded Vaccination Program (PAV), Leonildo Nhampossa, was quoted by Noticias as saying that a single dose will be...
On Thursday, the Italian government approved a decree that reprimands teenagers from the age of 14 after committing various crimes. Previously, those targeted could be deprived of their liberty for nine years, but the new decree sentences them to six years in prison, according to the international press. The document, approved by the Council...
Two teenagers, a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, are in police custody in the city of Matola for faking a kidnapping. According to Notícias, the minors faked the girl's abduction in order to extort 70,000 meticais from her mother. The minors are classmates and allegedly...
Seven minors, aged between 11 and 16, were rescued from captivity where they had been victims of sexual exploitation in the Angónia district of Tete province. The Provincial Director of Gender, Children and Social Action said that the cases have already been reported to the competent authorities where they are being processed legally. "The parents and...
Mozambique is one of the countries in the world with the highest rates of HIV prevalence and adolescents aged 15 are the most infected age group. The provinces of Zambézia, Nampula and Sofala have the highest number of people infected with HIV. Estimates indicate that in about a year there has been...
The company responsible for TikTok has announced that it has launched a new feature to limit the amount of time teenagers spend on the short-form video app. With this update, users under the age of 18 will have an "automatically set" limit for daily use of just 60 minutes. However, it will be possible to exceed...
Meta is taking new measures to protect teenagers' privacy settings. The company is making changes to the default privacy settings for teenagers' Facebook accounts, and further limiting the ability of adults deemed "suspicious" to send messages to youngsters on their social networks. According to...
Starts next Monday, throughout the country, the administration of the second dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, to adolescents from twelve to seventeen years of age said official source. The immunization campaign, which is expected to reach nearly five million adolescents, will run until November 25 of this month, according to...
Updated figures indicate that last year alone, thirty-nine thousand adolescents were infected with HIV and just over three thousand lost their lives to the disease. The president of the African Adolescent and Youth Network on Population and Development, Pedro Mahumane, was quoted by RM as saying that the situation is worrying, especially in a...