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...
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 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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...