More than 150,000 people urgently need food support in Sofala, Marínguè district, a government source said. The situation is so complicated that several families, especially in the towns of Gumbalaçai and Senga-senga, are feeding on wild fruit and tubers, writes Rádio Moçambique. As a result, thousands of other families have had to abandon...
Illegal gold mining costs the Mozambican state about 1.6 million meticais annually, according to the government of Sofala, which indicated the regions of Gorongosa, Nhamatanda and Maringué as being the regions with the highest occurrence of this activity. The State suffers from the practice of illegal mining since it cannot collect any revenue...