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,...
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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...
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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...
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Niassa Secretary of State admits insurgent movement in the province
The Secretary of State in Niassa, Dinis Vilanculo, says there are strange movements in some districts of that province, which could be terrorists fleeing from the neighboring province of Cabo Delgado, at a time when analysts are discussing what is happening in northern Mozambique, whether it is terrorism or insurgency. Vilanculo, who was speaking at the...
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Niassa. Sesame yields 70 million Meticais to producers
Sesame growers raised more than 70 million Meticais in the 2021-2022 agricultural marketing campaign, Mavago district administrator Abdul Cadre Momade told RM. According to the source, the money is being used, among other things, to improve their homes and buy means of transportation. Data provided by...
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About 1,400 war displaced people from Cabo Delgado go hungry in Niassa
Around 1,400 people who fled armed attacks by rebel groups in the district of Namuno, in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, and have taken refuge in the district of Nipepe, in Niassa, are starving and in need of emergency aid, several local sources told VOA on Monday 21. The group is part of the population that fled...
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Ninety thousand displaced people will have new birth registration
About 90 thousand internally displaced victims of terrorism and natural disasters in the provinces of Cabo Delegado, Nampula and Niassa will benefit from birth registration and issuance of Identity Cards (ID). According to "Noticias" the initiative is carried out by the Ministries of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs and of Interior, with the...
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Niassa. Fifteen individuals indicted in connection with terrorism
Fifteen people have been interrogated recently in Niassa province in connection with terrorism in Cabo Delgado province, an official source told Radio Mozambique. Óscar Basílio, President Judge of the Judicial Court of Niassa province, said that these are people who have been accused of recruitment or recruited to join the...
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Niassa. INAM warns farmers not to sow seed early
The National Institute of Meteorology (INAM) in Niassa appeals to farmers in the region not to sow the seed too early, given the forecast occurrence of the El Niño phenomenon in the coming rainy season. Data from INAM indicate that the Niassa province will register normal rains, with a tendency to below...
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Study reveals occurrence of miners in Nampula and Niassa
The geological mapping project, started in 2019, in the Lúrio belt, in the provinces of Nampula and Niassa, reveals a potential for the occurrence of several mineral resources, especially orogenic gold. This is a basic information to guide investors in the mining sector in Mozambique, who now have guiding documents...