This Tuesday (04), the President of the Republic, Daniel Chapo, appointed former Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Amílcar Tivane to the post of Secretary of State for the Treasury and Budget. Through presidential orders, the Mozambican head of state also appointed Gustavo Sobrinho Djedje as Secretary of State for Land and...
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, yesterday regretted the withdrawal of the United States of America from the organization. "We regret this decision and hope that the United States will reconsider it," he said at the opening of a meeting of the WHO Executive Board in Geneva, Switzerland. Meanwhile, in a document released on Monday, the WHO...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...