On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law the State Budget for the next three years, which provides for unprecedented investment in defense. This amounts to around 127 billion euros by 2025, which is a third of the total budget. The decree promulgating Russia's three-year state budget was...
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Civil society proposes budget to combat premature marriage
Civil society is proposing the creation of a single, specific budget to combat early unions in the country. According to the executive director of the Civil Society Forum for Children's Rights, Benilde Nhalivilo, who was speaking yesterday, Wednesday (24), in Maputo, at the Conference on the System for Guaranteeing the Rights of Children and...
Judges show wear and tear due to financial dependence on the government
Mozambican judges are advocating independence and financial autonomy, so that it is not parliament that determines the budget for the functioning of justice institutions. "We are saying that there are three organs of power, which are the Assembly of the Republic, the Government and the Courts. These three powers that make up the State...
Government allocates additional budget to municipalities affected by floods
The Executive has decided to support the municipalities affected by the recent torrential rains across the country with an additional budget, the spokesperson for the Council of Ministers announced on Tuesday. "The Council of Ministers approved the decree delegating to the Minister of Economy and Finance the power to define, by ministerial order, the amount to be transferred as...
World breaks record for money spent on wars
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has revealed that war spending will increase by 8 percent from 2022 to 2023, reaching a record 2,440 billion dollars. This is the highest annual growth in military spending in more than a decade, since 2009. SIPRI adds...
State to set aside 20% of the budget to contract MSME goods and services
The state and other public bodies must now set aside at least 20% of their budgets for the procurement of goods, services and contracts from national micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). The measure is the result of Parliament's approval of the bill establishing the legal framework applicable to MSMEs. The law...
UNHCR has only 5% of the 400 M$ budget for humanitarian assistance in Mozambique
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has so far received only five percent of the 400 million dollars it needs to deal with the crisis of displaced people caused by terrorist attacks and natural disasters in northern Mozambique. This was revealed on Thursday (7) by the head of the UN agency...
PESOE: Government cuts agricultural sector budget for 2024
Mozambique will reduce the budget for the agricultural sector next year, compared to the volume it allocated this year. According to the proposed State Budget for 2024, being debated in Parliament, the sector will receive around 40.4 billion Meticais, which corresponds to 10.5% of the total...
HR budget revised downwards
The budget of the Assembly of the Republic (AR) for next year (2024) will be revised downwards, with a reduction of around five hundred million meticais. The President of the Board of Directors of the legislative body, Helder Injojo, said quoted by Rádio Moçambique that the proposal, approved this Wednesday, aims to quantify the financial needs...
Cabo Delgado: Security challenges may require special budget
Cabo Delgado province could receive a special budget to deal with the challenges of stability and security as victims of terrorism return to their areas of origin. According to Notícias, which quotes the President of the Planning and Budget Committee of the Assembly of the Republic (AR), António Niquisse, the proposal...