The President of the Republic, Daniel Chapo, gave a positive assessment of his working visit to Niassa province, stressing the need to consolidate peace, promote reconciliation and boost economic and social development in the region. At a press conference to take stock of his work, the president highlighted the province's agricultural potential and the importance of...
Niassa province invested more than eleven million dollars in the construction, rehabilitation and upgrading of water supply infrastructures, sanitation units and sanitation facilities last year. The figures were released this Friday in Lichinga at the meeting of the Supervisory Committee of the Transparent Governance Program for Water, Sanitation and...
Last Thursday (13), Vodafone M-Pesa and Sociedade Algodoeira do Niassa, a company belonging to the João Ferreira dos Santos group (JFS), signed an agreement aimed at providing digital financial solutions to facilitate business for farmers and rural communities. During the first year, the new partnership will benefit a total of 500 farmers who, according to the terms...
The Northern Integrated Development Agency (ADIN) has just allocated more funds for social and economic development projects in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula. A total of six million dollars will be channelled to ActionAid Mozambique, the Association for Support and Legal Assistance to Communities,...
The German government, through the KfW bank, has announced financial support of 17 million euros for the construction and rehabilitation of the Lichinga and Cuamba mini-hydro plants in Niassa province, northern Mozambique. Speaking after signing the agreement with the Mozambican government, the Ambassador of the Republic of Germany to Mozambique, Ronald Münch stressed that...
In Niassa province, six people have died and another 63 have been injured since the start of the rainy season, victims of extreme natural events. The destruction of homes and lightning strikes are the causes of the deaths and injuries in different districts of the province, according to sources quoted by Rádio Moçambique. During this period, nearly eight...
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC, the US foreign support agency - Compacto II), has announced that it will finance the completion of the asphalting work on Regional Road 657, linking Cuamba, in Niassa, to Magige, in Zambezia, which is about 90 kilometers long. The fact, according to a publication by Rádio Moçambique, was made public by the delegate of the National...
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...
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...
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...