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...
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New Visa Application Center for Portugal opened
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 wants to strengthen parliamentary relations with Mozambique
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...
Portugal "legitimizes electoral fraud in Mozambique" according to parliamentarians
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...
Mozambique elections: Edson Cortez warns Portugal, the EU and the US that "they are keeping gangsters in government"
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...
Portugal ready to work with new Mozambican government and regrets episodes of violence
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...
Portugal wants to "mediate" dialog between political forces in Mozambique
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,...
Murder of immigrant by police leaves Lisbon in a state of "war" with the right to a "Molotov cocktail"
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....
Cabo Delgado: After all, Mozambicans convicted of financing terrorists used Portuguese accounts to launder capital
The first two nationals sentenced by the Cabo Delgado Provincial Court to 28 and 30 years for terrorist financing crimes used Portuguese bank accounts to launder money. This is the finding of the Portuguese Judicial Police, which is already investigating the case. According to a report in the Portuguese newspaper "Expresso", the National...
Isabel dos Santos no longer owns a bank in Portugal
Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos is no longer a shareholder in a bank in Portugal. The sale of her shareholding in EuroBic to Abanca took place yesterday, Thursday (11), more than four years after the Bank of Portugal decided to sell it. According to a report in the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, the bank will act...