Tag: Southern Africa

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Eduardo Samo Gudo elected chair of CDC Africa Regional Technical Advisory committee

The deputy director-general of the National Health Institute (INS), Eduardo Samo Gudo, was elected president of the Regional Technical Advisory Committee of the African Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC Africa) for Southern Africa. The election for a two-year term took place this Tuesday in Maputo, during the III meeting of the Committee, which...

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Mozambique participates in N'kwala festival, the biggest cultural event in Southern Africa

Mozambique will participate, at the end of February, in the largest cultural and traditional event in Southern Africa, called N'kwala. This is a festival that brings together, besides Mozambique, the Republics of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia and eSwatini. The spokesman of the Council of State Representation, in Tete, Lourenço...

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Switzerland overturns flight ban from six African countries

Switzerland announced today that, as of Monday, the ban imposed on six southern African countries, including Mozambique, from flying into the country because of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 will be lifted. Thus, as of Monday the ban on entry into Switzerland from South Africa and from...

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Omicron: EU lifts flight ban for all southern African countries

All Southern African countries can now fly to European Union (EU) member states. The decision was announced today and aims to allow the resumption of air connections, which had been interrupted due to the Omicron variant, announced the French presidency. According to a post made on the social network Twitter, the French presidency of the...

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Omicron's progression forces Spaniards to reinforce control of passengers coming from Mozambique

Spain has strengthened the requirements for entry into the country of air passengers coming from Mozambique and eight other African states considered high risk in view of the progression of the new variant of the Omicron coronavirus. If these documents cannot be obtained in the stipulated languages, passengers must provide an accredited supporting document, which must...

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Portugal resumes flights with Mozambique, but with imposition of anti-covid tests and quarantine

The Portuguese government announced this Friday, the resumption of essential flights with Mozambique and the rest of the Southern African countries. According to the Portuguese government's order, the resumption of flights must observe control measures for the new variant of covid-19, Omicron which has been spreading rapidly in the world. "Authorize essential travel...