Artist Noel Langa died yesterday (12.12) at the age of 86, victim of illness, at Maputo Central Hospital (HCM), after a 50-year career of national and international prominence. Through his social network Facebook, the President of the Republic sent his condolences to the deceased's family and to the entire artistic community. "It was with deep...
Father Fernão Magalhães, of the Archdiocese of Nampula, who in last October's elections was head of the list of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) and candidate for governor of Nampula, died of unknown causes on Saturday (09). According to a publication on the local Ikweli portal, citing close sources, the cleric, who lived alone in the communal unit...
Musician Dilon Djindji, king of marrabenta, lost his life at the age of 97 in the early hours of Wednesday morning at Maputo Central Hospital. The marrabenta icon had been hospitalized for a few months, undergoing intensive care at Mavalane General Hospital and later at HCM. The musician lost his life at midnight...
Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei died days after being burned with gasoline by her boyfriend. Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei died on Thursday, four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend, Kenyan athlete Dickson Ndiema Marangach. She was 33 years old. The athlete had represented her country at the Olympic Games in Paris,...
The first President of the Constitutional Council, Rui Baltazar, died in the early hours of Saturday morning. The judge-councilor lost his life at the age of 91. Full name Rui Baltazar dos Santos Alves, he was born in Maputo in 1933 and practiced law in the country from 1959 to 1974. The former judge counselor graduated in Law,...
Mozambican architect José Forjaz, one of the most renowned architects in Mozambique, died at dawn on Tuesday (25) in a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. According to Canalmoz, quoting a family source confirming his physical demise, Forjaz had already been weakened by a cancer that had been troubling him for a long time, which led him to...
Jennifer "Chude" Mondlane, the eldest daughter of Eduardo Mondlane, the founder of Frelimo, died of an illness at the age of 66. According to a report in the newspaper Notícias, Chude Mondlane was in a clinic in neighboring South Africa. With a degree in Anthropology and African Studies, she made a name for herself in the arts as a singer...
Mozambican artist Moisés Manjate, founder and member of Orquesta Djambo, died today at the age of 104. According to reports in the national press, Moisés da Conceição Manjate, his full name, was largely responsible for the evolution and stylization of Marrabenta in Mozambique and will forever be known as the author of the song "Elisa...
Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi died yesterday, Thursday (29), at the age of 98, from an illness, at Mzena Hospital in Dar es Salaam. Mwinyi's death, just three months shy of his 99th birthday, was announced by Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Mwinyi was President of Tanzania between...
Russia's prison services confirmed on Friday the death of Alexei Navalny, the man who became known for his fierce opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Alexei Navalny, who became notorious for his more than decade-long opposition to the Putin regime, died in the prison where he was sent by the Putin regime,...