Mozambique is working towards the removal of physical borders in rail transport with Malawi and Zimbabwe, one of the strategies found to reduce transit times on the country's corridors. According to the Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Amilton Alissone, the measure aims to simplify procedures to make the Nacala corridors...
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Mozambique and SADC member states align coordinated border management
Mozambique has just moved towards coordinated border management with the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), as part of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement, ratified in December last year. To this end, the country received yesterday in Maputo from the SADC Secretariat the...
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Three years later, Macau reopens borders to all foreigners
All foreigners can enter Macau from Sunday, the local authorities announced on Thursday, putting an end to a pandemic prevention and containment measure implemented almost three years ago. "The measures limiting the entry of people with foreign passports to Macau (...) have been eliminated," said...
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Detained 47 Malawians trying to enter South Africa illegally across the Mozambican border
Mozambican authorities have detained a total of 47 Malawians who were trying to enter South Africa from Mozambique's borders, a spokesperson for the Mozambique Migration Service in Maputo province said today. The group reportedly entered Mozambique from the Zobué border post in the Moatize district of Maputo province,...
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Mozambique provides 40 million meticals to modernize border posts with Tanzania
Four border posts between Mozambique and Tanzania, in Cabo Delgado province, may be upgraded by the end of the year according to a spokesman of the National Migration Service (SENAMI). For this purpose, the Government will provide 40 million meticals, according to Ivo Sampanha, who was speaking on the occasion of the launching of a public tender for the...
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Japan announces easing border measures... But not for tourists!
Japan announced, this Thursday, that it will facilitate measures to contain the pandemic at the borders, easing the veto on the entry of foreigners in the country and limiting the requirement for quarantine. According to Lusa, the announcement comes after several criticisms that the current policy is anti-scientific and xenophobic. The Japanese archipelago has maintained the...
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Australia reopens borders, but only to foreign workers and students
After nearly two years of border closures due to the pandemic, Australia announces the reopening from today only for skilled workers and overseas students, with the full covid-19 vaccine regimen. According to Australian authorities, the partial reopening was planned for earlier this month, but the discovery of the Omicron variant...
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Omicron: Now there is no exception! Japan closes borders to all foreign visitors
Japan's government announced today that it will close its borders to all foreign visitors starting this Tuesday due to the Omicron variant of covid-19. According to Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japanese returning from nine southern African countries and from countries where infections with the new variant have been reported will have to...
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Ressano Garcia border in a state of alert due to pandemic
As of this Monday, July 12, the borders with South Africa are in a state of high alert due to the daily increase of positive cases accompanied with deaths and hospitalization throughout the country, especially in the cities of Maputo, Tete and Beira