A health worker at the provincial hospital in Lichinga, Niassa, has been arrested after swindling more than 1 million meticais with promises of jobs in the civil service. According to the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC), the accused, in connection with her husband, collected money from citizens with promises of facilitating...
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Japanese cooperation agency invests 14 M$ to build social infrastructure in Niassa
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is investing around 14 million dollars in the construction of social infrastructures in Niassa province, in the interests of sustainable development. The project, which will benefit approximately 90,000 people living in the districts of Majune, Mandimba, Mavago, Muembe and N'gauma, was presented at the 15th Ordinary Session...
Niassa: Police shoot seven PODEMOS supporters in Mecanhelas
The village of Insaca, in the district of Mecanhelas, in Niassa, experienced a typical war scene yesterday, October 26, with the police firing sequences of shots for a few minutes. The result was that seven PODEMOS supporters were shot. According to CIP Eleições, it all started when PODEMOS members went to hold demonstrations...
Niassa/rainy season: ANE positions contractors on roads at risk
The National Roads Administration (ANE) in Niassa will deploy five contractors on roads considered to be at risk of damage during the rainy season. These are the Cuamba/Etatara, Cuamba/Mecanhelas, Marrupa/Mecula, Mussa/Muembe/Mavago and Msawize/Matondovela roads. Quoted by Rádio Moçambique, the delegate of the National Roads Administration (ANE) in Niassa, Oreste Zezela, says that on each road, the...
Niassa: People and police fight over ballot boxes in Mecanhelas
The town of Insaca, the seat of the Mecanhelas district in Niassa province, was in turmoil in the early hours of this morning, Thursday (10), as a result of a confrontation involving the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) and an alleged group of young voters. According to the Ikweli portal, the dispute was over the transportation of ballot boxes...
Niassa: Bad weather leaves Mecanhelas district without electricity
Around 8,000 families in the district of Mecanhelas, in Niassa province, have been deprived of electricity from the national grid after 25 poles on the transmission line from the city of Cuamba to the town of Insaca fell due to rain and strong winds. According to the delegate of Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), from the...
Filipe Nyusi visits Niassa
The President of the Republic, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, is making a working visit to Niassa province today and tomorrow. According to a publication in "Notícias", on this trip Filipe Nyusi will inaugurate the bridge over the Lúrio River, which connects the districts of Nipepe, in Niassa province, and Lalaua, in Nampula. Also...
Niassa/Election campaign: PRM mobilizes operational units
A few days before the start of the electoral campaign, the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM) in Niassa has mobilized all its operational units to ensure that the process is monitored. The head of the Public Relations Department at the PRM Command in Niassa, Celestino Ziade, was quoted by RM as saying that all aspects...
Niassa: Four killed in road accident
Four people died in a road accident on Saturday night, on National Road number 13, in the district of Cuamba, Niassa. The accident, which killed all the occupants of the car, was a crash and rollover and happened at around 9pm and was heading in the Lichinnga-Cuamba direction, writes Rádio Moçambique. Authorities...
Rehabilitation of the road linking Nampula to Niassa will only be completed in September
By September of this year, construction work will have been completed on the embankment road linking the districts of Nipepe, in Niassa province, to Malema, passing through Lalaua in Nampula. The guarantee comes from DH Mining, the company responsible for the work, which comprises a stretch of more than 90 kilometers of road, built as part of the...