Montepuez Ruby Mining (MRM) was ranked second in the Extractive Sector Transparency Index (ITSE), reaffirming its position as one of the most transparent mining companies in Mozambique. According to the 5th ITSE report, organized by the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), MRM demonstrates a very balanced and robust performance...
According to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), prices in Portugal remained stable in the first five months of this year compared to last year. In May this year, the general price level remained at around 4%, compared to 3.39% in the same period last year. In April, the increase was...
Press freedom around the world is being threatened by the very people who should be its guardians, the political authorities. In Mozambique, "the re-election of Filipe Nyusi and the fragile peace agreement with former rebels have not slowed the worrying decline in press freedom". This is the conclusion of the World Press Index...
An Oxfam analysis reveals that Mozambique is one of the countries with a high level of income imbalance due to loans or subsidies from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and/or the World Bank (WB). Oxfam based its study on a Gini coefficient above 0.4, a level considered alarming by the United Nations....
Mozambique's private sector ended 2023 in its weakest position since the start of the year, according to PMI survey data. Companies saw order book volumes fall into negative territory. Activity and purchasing levels continued to fall, leading to the biggest reduction in stocks since July. How...
The majority of Portuguese-speaking countries have improved their position in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index, in which only Angola and Portugal have fallen down the rankings. Among the eight of the nine states of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) that are included in this index, since São Tomé and Príncipe is not included, East Timor...
Malaria rates have been rising year after year in the country. Data presented yesterday in Maputo by the Ministry of Health indicates that in 2021 alone the country recorded 11 million cases of malaria with 409 deaths. In 2022, according to the same source, the number of infections rose to 12 million...
World food prices fell by 20.5% in March this year, compared to the same period in 2022, when they set a record. The information was released on Friday (7/4) by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Compared to the previous month, the FAO index, which monitors...
According to data from the Index of Economic Freedom (ILE), Mozambique has not made any progress in terms of the business environment. It regressed throughout 2022. With an ILE average of 51.3 points in 2022, down from 51.6 points in 2021, Mozambique is ranked 32nd out of 47 countries in the...
The business robustness index recorded a drop this year in relation to the last quarter of last year, from 29 to 27%. The president of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA), Agostinho Vuma, said that the main causes of this decrease are pointed out as the combined effects of natural disasters, the increase in inflation and the...