The 2025 school year officially began on Friday, with the President of the Republic, Daniel Chapo, presiding over the central ceremonies in the Lugela district of Zambezia province. In the meantime, students are "going to their desks" as the shortage of teachers reaches 22,000 to cover current needs. Despite this gap, which will influence the ratio...
The government will maintain the option of having some teachers teach second classes, which implies paying overtime, as a way of making up for the shortage of teachers resulting from the financial constraints of hiring new ones. According to the spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Inocêncio Impissa, every year more than one million pupils...
The education sector has a deficit of 12,000 teachers who should be hired to teach in the country's primary and secondary schools from Friday (31), the start date of the 2025 school year. The information was provided by the spokesperson for the Council of Ministers, Inocêncio Impissa, who was speaking to the press minutes after...
The National Institute for Disaster Risk Management (INGD) has recorded a deficit of 9 billion meticais for the implementation of the Contingency Plan for the Rainy and Cyclonic Season 2024/2025, out of an estimated 11 billion meticais needed to meet all requirements. According to the president of the INGD, Luísa...
The National Electoral Commission says it has a budget deficit of 13 billion meticais - out of the 20 billion needed - to cover all the costs of the general elections. However, it is already being channeled into the regularized accounts of the political groups and candidates registered for the ballot. Reacting to information from...
Maputo province will start the current school year with a shortfall of seven hundred and thirteen teachers for the different education subsystems. For this year, the province has managed to hire two hundred and eighty-seven teachers, a number that falls far short of the sector's needs to meet demand. The information was...
The deficit in the balance of current transactions between Mozambique and the rest of the world worsened to 520.9 million dollars at the end of the second quarter, almost double that of the same period in 2022. According to the data contained in the Bank of Mozambique's report on the country's balance of payments in the second quarter,...
The government plans to cut total public spending by 0.5 percentage points in 2024, maintaining the pace of "fiscal consolidation", but forecasting a budget deficit of 10.4% of GDP. In the documents supporting the proposal for the Economic and Social Plan of the State Budget (PESOE) for 2024, to which Lusa had access today, the...
The head of Energy and Infrastructure at Standard Bank Group, Paul Taylor, believes that Mozambique's Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) can play an important role in meeting the shortfall in the global market resulting from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which has reduced the availability of this important energy resource by around 120 million tons....
The Director General of Taxes at the Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) revealed last Friday that the country will have a revenue shortfall of more than 115 billion meticais this year to cover public spending, estimated at 472 billion. According to Lurdes Banze, the solution is to increase the number...