The outcome of the case of embezzlement of donations for the needy involving the delegate of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD) in Niassa, Fradei Taibo, could be known later this month, the justice authorities said. The Prosecutor of the Provincial Office for Combating Corruption in Niassa, Rachide Martins, said...
Niassa. Health official arrested on charges of illicitly charging patient
A health worker has been arrested on charges of illicitly charging four thousand meticais to a patient who was to undergo surgery in the district of Cuamba, Niassa province. The information was provided this Friday by José Manuel, director of the Provincial Health Services in Niassa as part of the celebrations for the...
INGD: Delegate Arrested for Diversion of Food Says Police Were Wrong
The delegate of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD), Friday Taibo, who was arrested in Niassa for allegedly embezzling several food products, says that there was a misunderstanding on the part of the police and denied that it was theft. According to the detainee, quoted by the Moz Clash website, the products were loaded in the district of...
Niassa. INGD Delegate arrested for hijacking donation truck
A delegate from the National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD) was arrested this morning for allegedly embezzling 10 tons of food intended for donations, TV Sucesso reported on its Casos do Dia program. According to the channel, the products were diverted in Cuambae and Mandimba and were destined for...
Malawian families of victims of Cyclone Freddy welcomed in Niassa
Several people from Malawi are taking refuge in the town of Chissaua, in the district of Mecanhelas, in Niassa. The families who were victims of Cyclone Freddy are receiving support from the Mozambican government in a reception center. According to the spokesman for the 23rd session of the Council of State Representation Services in Niassa, José Manuel, the province has taken in around 937 families with around 2,459 people...
Niassa: Rains interrupt train services between Cuamba-Lichinga and Cuamba-Entre-Lagos
Train traffic between Cuamba-Lichinga and Cuamba-Entre-Lagos, in Niassa province, has been interrupted due to the dragging of railway lines as a result of the heavy rain in the province. A report from the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction in Niassa says that several parts of the two railroads have been damaged. O...
Niassa receives more than a thousand doses of cholera vaccine
Niassa province has just received more than a thousand doses of cholera vaccine for the campaign, which will run from the 27th of this month to March 13th in five border districts of the province. These are the districts of Lichinga, Lago, Mandimba, Sanga, Chimbonila and Mecanhelas, which border Malawi and Tanzania. For...
Switzerland provides 123 M$ for setting up basic services in Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula provinces
Switzerland will support northern Mozambique, affected by an armed insurgency, with a program worth 123 million dollars, Swiss President Alain Berset announced in Maputo. "It's about 123 million dollars over four years" to create basic services like water and electricity in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula,...
Águas da Região do Norte denies imminent water supply crisis in Lichinga
Following public reports of an imminent water supply crisis in the city of Lichinga, the capital of Niassa province, due to an alleged inability of the Locúmuè reservoir to supply the precious liquid in the recommended quantities, Águas da Região do Norte, SA (AdRN), a company owned by the...
Niassa. Eight dead from lightning and drowning
In Niassa, eight people died from lightning strikes and drowning during the current rainy season, according to an official source quoted by Rádio Moçambique. According to the delegate of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD) in Niassa, Fraid Taíbo, the deaths from lightning strikes occurred in the districts of Ngaúma and Cuamba and...