The European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) has announced the winners of the ECF awards that recognize outstanding achievements in promoting and enabling cycling at its flagship Velo-city 2024 conference. This year's winners are "1. City of Quelimane; 2. European Parliament, 3. City of Bologna, 4. Metropolis of Lyon, 5. City of Ghent" and "each...
African Champions League: CAF to pay four thousand dollars to the winner
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that it will pay four thousand dollars, equivalent to 254,000 meticais, to the winner of the African Champions League, writes "O País". The runner-up will be entitled to two thousand dollars, or 127,000 meticais. With this measure, the body that manages African soccer wants to make...
World Press Photo: the power of an image that reveals a tragedy
The World Press Photo contest's Photo of the Year award went to the image of a Palestinian woman embracing the body of her niece, who was killed along with her mother and sister when an Israeli missile hit their home, the organization announced on Thursday. Captured by photographer Mohammed Salem, of the International...
Young Mozambican writer wins international poetry prize
Mozambican poet Jeconias Mocumbi recently won the first Floriano Martins International Lusophone Poetry Prize, organized in Chile. The author achieved this feat with his book "Os Dedos da Agonia", which, as a result of the award, will be published this year in a bilingual edition, Portuguese and Spanish, by LP5 Editora in the Poetry Collection Plateado...
Fátima Taquidir is the winner of the Imprensa Nacional/Eugénio Lisboa Award 2023
Fátima Taquidir, who competed under the pseudonym Gaiaguango, is the winner of the 2023 edition of the Imprensa Nacional/Eugénio Lisboa Prize for her work Disrupção. Consisting of Lucílio Manjate (Mozambique), as President, Sara Laisse (Mozambique) and Paula Mendes (Portugal), the jury decided to award the prize to Disrupção, by Fátima Taquidir, on the grounds that...
Mozambicans distinguished in Portugal with medals for scientific merit
Mozambican Rosa J. Chilundo and a student-researcher from Uni Zambeze recently received the first awards of the REN-Ciência LP and Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia 2023 scientific merit medals in Lisbon (Portugal). All Portuguese-speaking countries could compete for the awards. The Mozambican scientist was awarded first prize and the Mozambican student-researcher second...
Qualification for the 2026 World Cup is worth a million to the Mambas and victory 80,000 meticais
The Mozambican Football Federation (FMF) has already approved the award regulations that will be in force throughout the qualifying phase for the 2026 World Cup, which kicks off on November 16 with Mozambique taking on Botswana. According to a meeting held on November 8 at the headquarters of the...
CAN 2023: Not all the Mambas will receive 320,000 meticais for qualifying. It could be more or less than that
Before the match between the national soccer teams of Mozambique (Mambas) and Benin (Esquilos) last Saturday at the Zimpeto Stadium in Maputo, people were already calculating the match prize that would be awarded to the players in the event of victory. There it is! The Mambas beat the Esquilos 3-2 to seal their passage...
Nedbank Mozambique recognized as the best in User Experience (UX) in Mozambique
Nedbank Moçambique has been recognized with the Top Innovations In Finance 2023 award in the User Experience category by the prestigious Global Finance magazine, reinforcing the importance of reinventing itself by creating innovative, high-performance, user-friendly and customer-oriented navigation solutions. The User Experience (UX) in the digital channels of...
Mozambican businessman wins international 'Young Business Leader of the Year 2023' award
On Friday (26), Mozambican businessman Michel Ussene, CEO of Mitra Energy and President of the Mozambican Association of Oil Companies (AMEPETROL), won the 13th African Business Leadership Award (ABLA) 2023, in the Young Business Leader of the Year category. "The position of winner was unexpected....