The Municipality of Maputo is receiving a range of support from other municipalities to help with the collection of solid waste, as part of a twinning agreement (inter-municipal cooperation). In this context, we highlight the support of the Chimoio Municipal Council, in Manica, which has made 10 tipper trucks available. "The integration of these trucks will have an immediate impact...
Maputo City Council has lost a fleet of six waste collection units due to the violent demonstrations taking place in the country. Rasaque Manhique, president of the Maputo City Council, was quoted by Rádio Moçambique as saying that the situation, combined with the destruction of containers, reduces the capacity to collect solid waste. Manhique was speaking this...
The Municipality of Maputo has a deficit of 30 million Meticais for garbage collection in all the neighborhoods of Maputo. In other words, the municipality manages to collect only 14 million Meticais a month out of the 44 million Meticais needed each month for this activity. "At the moment, we have a monthly bill resulting from primary collection of around...
The Municipality of Maputo is not collecting garbage in some neighborhoods due to a lack of money to pay debts to companies that provide the service. This has turned these neighborhoods into garbage dumps, which is a threat to the public health of residents. Meanwhile, the councillor for Infrastructure and Health, João Munguambe says...
Maputo City Council owes more than 160 million meticais to the companies contracted to collect and manage solid waste "garbage", and the municipality is making efforts to clean up the "stain". This debt is a legacy of the previous administration led by Eneas Comiche, relating to the months between February...
The mayor of Nampula, Luís Giquira, recently sworn in for a five-year term, launched a massive garbage removal campaign at the "Waresta" wholesale market this Saturday morning. Since October last year, users of the market had been complaining about the poor hygiene conditions in which the...
On his first visit to interact with residents and find out about the problems facing the municipality, Júlio Parruque promised to rehabilitate seventeen kilometers of dilapidated roads in 100 days. Yesterday, the new mayor of Matola visited one of the most critical neighborhoods in terms of access roads, the...
The municipality of Maputo says that the Hulene dump, located in the Mozambican capital, still has enough space to receive more garbage, but acknowledges that there are access difficulties at the site. According to the municipal director of Environment and Health in the city of Maputo, Sérgio Manhique, the problem, for now, is the difficulty of accessing that space,...
The Nampula Court has authorized the mayor of the city of Nampula, Paulo Vahanle, to resume his duties. He had been suspended from his activities for a period of four months, since December 19, 2023, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office. However, this is the rainy season and the province of...
One of the three companies contracted to collect garbage in Maputo city has suspended its activities due to a debt of 160 million meticais owed by the Municipal Council, relating to 11 months, from February to December 2023. The city council issued a statement saying that it is mobilizing financial resources to improve waste collection and...