The Minister of the Interior, Arsénia Massingue, is demanding that the new deputy national director of Civil Identification reduce the time it takes to issue and deliver identity cards. Arsénia Massingue was speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of the interior ministry staff, including Mário Chirindza, for the area in question. According to the minister, the...
The Minister of the Interior, Arsénia Massingue, said today in Maputo that the country does not have the capacity to create an anti-rape brigade and that it is relying on help from other countries to do so. "What we are doing internally to prevent the occurrence of this legal type of crime is training...
Voter registration is taking place safely in all of Cabo Delgado's municipalities, despite the armed insurgency in the province, said Interior Minister Arsénia Massingue. "We have no alarming cases. In all the stations we have security guaranteed by the police" who "are working without any difficulty", she said on Monday in Pemba....
The Minister of the Interior, Arsénia Massingue, defends the need for joint efforts between the Mozambican and South African police forces in order to stop cross-border crime Arsénia Massingue, who was speaking yesterday in Cape Town at a meeting with her South African counterpart, said that organized crime these days is transnational, which is why...
The Mozambican Minister of the Interior, Arsénia Massingue, is meeting today in Cape Town with the South African Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, to discuss cross-border crime. The face-to-face meeting between the ministers follows meetings between senior police officers from Mozambique and South Africa, in the wake of the wave of attacks on police vehicles in...
The Minister of the Interior, Arsénia Massingue, has challenged the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) to set up its own training school and to purify its ranks more and more in order to better combat crimes such as money laundering, terrorist financing and kidnapping, among others. "I want to challenge SERNIC to create its own school or center...
The Minister of the Interior, Arsénia Massingue, said on Saturday that the police must be able to combat the various criminal manifestations such as terrorism and the wave of kidnappings, as well as all threats that attack the sovereignty of the Mozambican state. It was during the graduation of 800 police officers at the Osvaldo Tazama Sergeants School,...
The Minister of the Interior, Arsénia Massingue, said yesterday in the Assembly of the Republic that since January there have been 11 kidnappings and 27 arrests in connection with the crimes. "The victims are within their families, with the exception of the cases that took place in Maputo city on October 3 and November 1," she said....
The Minister of Interior, Arsénia Massingue, criticized the involvement of public officials in aiding illegal immigration, defending the criminal accountability of offenders. "It worries us that public officials get involved in aiding illegal immigration," said Massingue, quoted today by Televisão de Moçambique (TVM). The participation of state agents in such offenses is a...
The Minister of Interior, Arsénia Massingue, says that despite attrition attacks by jihadists, the forces of the mission of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Cabo Delgado, remain motivated and determined to fight terrorism in that province. However, with the recent onslaughts by insurgents, analysts warn that attacks to open...