The National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) has arrested a couple accused of kidnapping a minor in Dondo district, Sofala province, and demanding 1.5 million meticais in ransom. The child was kidnapped by a woman last Sunday while she was playing outside a church. The child's parents were...
A seven-year-old child died on Sunday after being swept away by rainwater following bad weather in the district of Montepuez, in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique. According to the Montepuez district administrator on Tuesday, in addition to the child's death, the rain in the district is also...
A 16-year-old child was forced to leave her mother in South Africa and return to Mozambique due to alleged sexual exploitation by her mother. The child said she was from Inhambane province and was received by the border authorities in Namaacha, Maputo province, where she was referred to...
The National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) has announced the arrest of two men of Malawian nationality who allegedly tried to traffic a nine-year-old child in Niassa province. According to the spokesman for SERNIC in Niassa, Moisés Matangue, the two men, aged 43 and 47, were intercepted at the...
Court in Malawi lifts ban on public schools. More than a thousand children can resume their studies. Ali Nansolo, the father of the child banned from attending school because he has dreadlocks, has pondered several times whether he should cut off his 15-year-old son's dreadlocks. According to the father, for his community, dreadlocks are...
The global food crisis has already caused more than 260,000 children to become severely malnourished since the beginning of this year, translating to "one child every minute," UNICEF revealed today. The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) points to "war in Ukraine and climate change"...
The Ministry of Health intends to vaccinate 5,1 million children against polio by the end of the year, announced an official source. The vaccination starts this month and aims to respond to the outbreak of this infection in Malawi, neighboring country, said Health Minister Armindo Tiago, quoted by Diário Notícias. "When there is occurrence of cases...