The widow of the first Mozambican President, Samora Machel, and historic Frelimo party activist, Graça Machel, has released a video in which she presents her support for presidential candidate Daniel Chapo. "Comrade Chapo, you are my candidate, you are the candidate of the entire Machel family, not only because you are the candidate of the Frelimo party, but above all...
Tag: fight against corruption
Manica has registered more than 100 cases of corruption up to June
The Provincial Office for Combating Corruption in Manica province, in central Mozambique, recorded 149 crimes in the first half of this year. The health sector and the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) recorded the highest number of corruption cases. Quoted by AIM, the replacement for the director of...
Manica: Criminals steal computers and files from the Anti-Corruption Office
Criminals broke into the Provincial Office for Combating Corruption in Manica and stole computers and criminal files. The crime was allegedly carried out by an alleged agent of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in collusion with a military officer. According to a report in the newspaper "O País", it all started when, at around 7pm last Monday, a...
Mozambique steps up fight against corruption, but NGO warns of mismanagement of armed forces
Mozambique climbed five places to 142nd in the Corruption Perception Index, reaching 26 points on a scale that goes from zero to 100, according to a report released today, which warns of a lack of leadership in the armed forces. This year's edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), drawn up by the...
"E-visa platform will strengthen the fight against corruption and attract more tourism investment"
The Minister of Culture and Tourism hopes that the E-visa electronic visa platform, launched this Monday in Maputo, will serve to strengthen the fight against corruption, attract more foreign investment and boost tourism in the country. Eldevina Materula stressed on Monday, at the launch of the platform, that a project is underway to...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announces measures to combat state corruption
The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, yesterday announced a series of measures to combat corruption in the state apparatus and warned the corrupt that "they have nowhere to hide". "Corruption is a betrayal of our democracy and an attack on the institutions we established together to promote the values of our Constitution and...
Fighting corruption: Analysts say the problem is not with laws, but with institutions
The Government will implement a strategy to combat corruption in the Public Administration, but experts say that the country does not need more laws or more instruments, but institutions that work, to fight this phenomenon, which in 2020 damaged the State by about 17 million dollars. The adoption...
Mozambique prepares national strategy to fight corruption
The General Inspectorate of Public Administration (IGAP) of Mozambique announced yesterday, Friday, the elaboration of a national strategy for the prevention and fight against corruption. "What we are doing right now is the national strategy. Our focus is to combat, in a hard way, all deviant behavior, everything that has to do with...
A year of "hidden debts": Judgment only protected high political figures
The process of "hidden debts", which damaged the Mozambican state by more than US$2.2 billion, only protected politicians and did not serve as a lesson for the fight against corruption, analysts said a year ago. At the beginning of the hidden debts process, on August 23, 2021, it was expected that the fight against...
IPC analyst questions how corrupt can fight corruption
The Public Ministry assumes that there were deviations in the management of Covid-19 funds, and that the fight against corruption is not making progress in the country. But the Center for Public Integrity (CIP) says that the lack of progress is due to the inoperativeness of public authorities, including the judiciary itself, in the fight against this evil,...