Last night, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, announced the dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic and the calling of early parliamentary elections for May 18th. The decision, according to the Portuguese press, comes after the rejection of the motion of confidence presented by the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, on...
For the first time, the province of Nampula is taking part in the Lisbon Tourism Exchange (BTL), in Portugal, in an event where it is advertising its tourism potential and seeking partnerships for the recovery of the sector. The event, which runs from yesterday (12) until the 16th of this month, discusses the challenges facing tourism in the face of the emergence of new technologies, especially the use...
Sporting, where Mozambican international Geny Catamo plays, secured their place in the semi-finals of the Portuguese Cup yesterday by beating Gil Vicente 1-0 in the quarter-finals. The only goal of the game was scored by Zeno Debast in the 68th minute. Geny Catamo, who was ruled out of the competition due to an ankle injury...
The Portuguese Ambassador to Mozambique, António Costa Moura, inaugurated a new Visa Application Center for Portugal last Friday. The new Visa Application Center for Portugal is located in the Maputo Business Tower, JAT, in downtown Maputo. The inauguration took place in the presence of Consul...
Portugal's ambassador, António Moura, met with the head of Frelimo's parliamentary caucus, Feliz Sílvia, and expressed his intention to strengthen parliamentary relations with Mozambique. "We were talking about new avenues of cooperation on Portugal's part, about what kind of improvements we can make to cooperation between parliaments, and then make...
Portuguese parliamentary parties are criticizing Portugal's participation in the official ceremonies for the swearing in of Daniel Chapo as the 5th President of the Republic of Mozambique tomorrow. Following the approval of a recommendation by the Portuguese parliament for the country not to take part in the ceremony in Mozambique, Portugal decided to send the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Paulo...
The director of the Center for Public Integrity (CIP), Edson Cortez, says that "there are a number of tax payers in these partner countries, the European Union, Portugal and the United States, who pay taxes to enrich a corrupt elite and cannot expect that an individual who comes to power undeservedly, through fraud, will then...
The Portuguese government is ready to work with the new Mozambican president and government to strengthen strategic ties between the two countries, in continuity with the historic bonds of friendship between the two peoples. In a statement released yesterday (23), shortly after the results were announced, Portugal began by saying that it has...
Mozambique is going through a tense post-election period following the announcement of the centralized results by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) on 24 October. In fact, beforehand there were demonstrations against the partial results announced by the district and provincial commissions. After the announcement by the CNE, the demonstrations intensified. The allegations are that the results are fraudulent,...
A Public Security Police officer in Lisbon, Portugal, shot dead a Cape Verdean immigrant, identified as Odair Moniz, 43, in the Cova da Moura neighborhood of Amadora in the early hours of Monday morning. The official version, according to the Portuguese media, indicated that Moniz wielded a melee weapon against the PSP patrol....