The Nampula Provincial Office for Combating Corruption (GPCCN) yesterday arrested the former director of the Provincial Infrastructure Services, Gil de Carvalho, on charges of illegally selling state property to private individuals, mainly his immediate family members. Also accused in the case are his wife, son, brother-in-law and...
The district delegate of the Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos) in Zavala, Inhambane province, and his wife were kidnapped yesterday, Sunday. The party, through its social media channels, said that the police in the district did not know the whereabouts of Alberto Chale Lima Munjovo and Carla Teresa Serafina Nhavoto. This...
A man has been indicted for killing his wife and then claiming suicide in Sussundenga, in Manica province, central Mozambique. In a report in the newspaper "O País", the accused, who denies the charges, claims that his wife hanged herself because she was nervous. "I didn't kill her. She got nervous and hanged herself," said the accused....
King Mswati III of Eswatini has announced that he intends to marry 21-year-old Nomcebo Zuma, daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, as his 16th wife. Nomcebo is the daughter of Zuma and his fifth wife, Nonkululeko Mhlongo. According to a publication on the South African website "Scrolla", in July a delegation from King Mswati...
A 40-year-old man is being held at the 7th Police Station in Alto da Manga accused of murdering his wife by asphyxiation using a sheet in the Manga-Mascarenhas area, in the city of Beira, Sofala province. The spokesman for the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM) in Sofala, Dércio Chacate, said that...
A 46-year-old Mozambican citizen is being held to account by the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM) for hammering his mother-in-law and stepson to death at the weekend in the district of Dondo, Sofala province. The victims died at the scene of the attacks following repeated blows. According to the...