The health professionals at the Marracuene District Health Center in Maputo province stopped work today to demand payment of their seniority allowances. According to the professionals, the payments stopped in 2022, and since then they have only received promises. "We generally want to be paid our...
Hundreds of motorists have been blocking traffic on the National Road (EN1) in Maputo city since this morning, preventing entry to the city center. The suspension of traffic marks adherence to the demonstrations called by the independent presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane. Today, the first of seven days of demonstrations, vehicles almost...
The journalist-reporter for the Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), Sheila Wilson, was arrested earlier this afternoon in Maputo city, while she was broadcasting live the situation regarding the protests called by Venâncio Mondlane. The arrest took place after a military guard from the Presidency of the Republic, on Av. Julius Nyerere, stole...
The movement of cargo and goods is paralyzed at the Ressano Garcia border crossing, in the district of Moamba, Maputo province. Vehicles are not leaving Mozambique for South Africa or vice versa. In the early hours of this morning, the drivers of two trucks were forced to cross the road. The protesters seized the...
The private sector said today in Maputo that the national economy has lost incalculable sums of money due to the shutdowns of economic activities across the country, and that the effects will soon be felt. "At the moment we can't assess the financial losses," said Eduardo Sengo, Executive Director of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique...
The presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, said this morning in Maputo that he had successfully managed to bring work activities in the country to a standstill at around 95%, with the remaining five percent being essential services. Mondlane calls the people's adherence to the call for protests a success because, according to him, they were...
The lack of payment for overtime work, rounds and other activities outside normal working hours could lead resident (post-graduate) doctors at Maputo Central Hospital (HCM) to paralyze their activities. The doctors, whose numbers have not been calculated, have not been paid for more than a year's work in overtime...
A group of 40 teachers from the Daejo Cheile Community School in the Khongolote neighborhood, in the city of Matola, stopped classes on Thursday, demanding payment of overtime owed by the state for the years 2022 and 2023. Images of the boycott were circulated on social media, and the teachers say that the...
The district of Marracuene has 74 voter registration offices and 26 of them are unable to continue their activities, as a result of the rains that hit the city and province of Maputo last weekend. The cities of Maputo and Matola may also see the voter registration process paralyzed. The...
Mozambican businesspeople are considering paralyzing their economic activities in protest against the wave of kidnappings in recent years in Mozambique. The information was provided by the Confederation of Economic Associations - CTA on the sidelines of a meeting that discussed, among other things, the impact of kidnapping crimes on...