Three people died on Tuesday (29) and two are missing following the sinking of an artisanal boat at around 12 noon in the Tamole 1 area, in the Angoche district of Nampula province, northern Mozambique. According to a statement from the Maritime Transport Regulatory Authority (ITRANSMAR), quoted by the newspaper Savana, among the three...
Sofala, Muanza district. Two people died and another three are missing after a passenger boat sank last Sunday. The maritime accident was allegedly caused by overloading and overcrowding of the vessel, which was carrying twelve passengers at the time, according to Rádio Moçambique. The spokesman for the...
The Mozambican government has promised to soon release the report on the shipwreck that caused the death of 98 people on Ilha de Moçambique, in the administrative post of Lunga, Nampula province. "I think that in due course, in the next 10 or 15 days, the commission will not only come out with an exhaustive report on the...
A boat containing 12 members of the same family sank yesterday, Monday (15), causing eight deaths and two missing persons in the district of Caia, Sofala province. The incident, according to Rádio Moçambique, took place on one of the tributaries of the Zambezi River, with the canoe being overcrowded as the probable cause of the tragedy. According to the administrator of the...
The former Prime Minister (2012-2015), Alberto Vaquina, today criticized the government's late response to the shipwreck that occurred on Sunday afternoon (07) on Quissanga beach, on the island of Mozambique. "I disapproved of the way things were done. The Frelimo party should have disapproved of this attitude. The Mozambican state should have been the first to disapprove of this kind of...
At dusk on Sunday (7), a fishing boat sank and caused 98 deaths on Quissanga beach, on the island of Mozambique. The boat was carrying 130 people from the town of Lunga to Ilha de Moçambique. An outbreak of cholera was the first cause of the boat's overcrowding. This version was...
United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said yesterday (09) that "a team, which includes UN representatives in Mozambique, has been sent to the area to work on a primary assessment and support the response efforts of the national authorities". Speaking in New York at the organization's daily briefing, Dujarric said that the UN...
The executive has decreed three days of national mourning, starting on Wednesday (10), for the death of 98 people in a shipwreck on Quissanga beach, on Ilha de Moçambique, in Nampula province. The shipwreck occurred on Sunday (07), when around 130 people on board a fishing boat were sailing from Posto...
The President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, sent a message of condolences to the Mozambican people for the death of 98 people in the shipwreck that occurred on Sunday off Quissanga beach, on the island of Mozambique. In a note published on the official website of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa comforted...
The government is meeting this Tuesday to assess the situation of the shipwreck that occurred this Sunday on Ilha de Moçambique, in Nampula province, and to take the necessary measures to minimize the impact of the incident. The Head of State has sent a government delegation, led by the Minister of Transport and Communications, Mateus Magala, to provide aid to the survivors...