The electricity supply to part of the customers in the Manhiça district, in Maputo province, has been interrupted, affecting around 12,000 customers. In a statement, the company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) explained that the interruption was due to an anomaly on the Muhalaze-Manhiça line. "As soon as the incident was reported, EDM's technical teams went to the...
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Death row: Truck collision kills four in Manhiça
Four more people lost their lives yesterday as a result of a collision between two trucks in the town of 3 de Fevereiro, in Maputo province. These are four more of the hundreds of Mozambicans who have lost their lives in this town in recent years. Sources at the scene say that one of the trucks was coming from Inhambane to...
Manhiça: People set fire to police car in protest at rise in crime
People rioted today in the town of Manhiça, Maputo province, and set fire to a vehicle belonging to the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM), claiming that the crime wave has increased in recent days. In an update...
To take justice into their own hands: People block N1 demanding release of killers
Almost a hundred angry people blocked National Road number (N1), in the district of Manhiça, Maputo province, last Thursday (28), in protest against the supposed lethargy of the judicial system in relation to the arrest of two individuals accused of kidnapping and murdering a local citizen. According to the newspaper Domingo, the...
Road accident causes 17 injuries in Manhiça
Seventeen people suffered serious and minor injuries as a result of six accidents over the weekend in the district of Manhiça, Maputo province. The accidents took place on National Road Number One (EN1). Of the 17 people injured, four are in serious condition and have been transferred to Maputo Central Hospital, 11 have been discharged, while the rest...
Local elections: Opposition parties' appeals rejected in Manhiça, Xai-xai and Mandlakazi
This Wednesday, the Constitutional Council (CC) rejected the appeals filed by the opposition parties in the municipalities of Manhiça, Xai-Xai and Mandlakazi on the grounds that the conditions for a prior challenge had not been met. As a result, the aspirations of the opposition parties to have the electoral process that took place on...
Police deny robbery of police station in Manhiça
The spokesman for the General Police Command, Orlando Mudumane, has just denied the alleged robbery of a police station in Manhiça. Yesterday, a screenshot of a message about the alleged robbery went viral and some news platforms took it for granted, without citing sources. But officially it's fake news," said the spokesperson for the...
Manhiça: Unknown assailants rob police station and seize firearms
The 3 de Fevereiro police station in the Manhiça district of Maputo province was robbed on Saturday night by around 10 armed men. The unknown men pretended to be about to lodge a complaint, but surprisingly displayed pistols and threatened the officers, pressuring them to hand over their weapons. With no alternative or ability to react, the...
Family members claim bodies of victims of Manhiça accident
The relatives of the victims of the accident occurred on Thursday morning, in EN1, neighborhood 3 de Fevereiro, Manhiça district, Maputo province, began today to claim the bodies of their deceased relatives. The accident caused the death of six people, five on the spot and one on the way to Maputo Central Hospital, after...
Government announces program to foment the production of sugar cane
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, announced this Thursday a new program to promote and massify the production of sugar cane to meet the needs of the sugar industry. The program foresees a production of 500 thousand tons of sugar cane per campaign. "We have a great potential for absorbing production. We are ...