Threats to freedom of assembly in Mozambique have increased in recent years, as activists and community leaders demonstrating against injustice, government abuses or the high cost of living have faced police repression and many were arrested in 2023. This scenario is described by the organization Freedom...
The Administrative Court (TA) today submitted to the Assembly of the Republic its report and opinion on the General State Account for the implementation of the 2023 budget. The information was provided last Friday (27) in Maputo by the institution's spokesperson, Judge-Counselor Cláudio Pene, at the end of the meeting that considered and approved the...
The German Federal Aviation Accident Investigation Bureau has released its preliminary report into the tragic plane crash that killed Malawi's former vice-president, Saulos Chilima. The report shows a series of deficiencies in the aircraft that was carrying Chilima, from the Emergency Locator Transmitter that had been out of service for 20 years, and a...
More than 1.5 million people in three northern Mozambican provinces were in a food insecurity crisis or emergency situation in June, according to the Food Security Group, which acknowledged that it had no resources. According to the report released yesterday, Tuesday (12), by the group made up of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...
In the first half of this year, Moza Banco recorded a profit of 11.2 million meticais, recovering from losses of 55.5 million meticais recorded in the same period in 2023. The figures are contained in Moza Banco's Interim Financial Statements for the first half of the year, to which MZNews had access. Until June 30...
A total of 159 people went missing last year in Mozambique, according to figures released in a report by the Support Fund for Missing Persons, which considers the situation to be worrying. Speaking this week in Maputo at the presentation of the results, the president of the Fund, Apolinário Munguambe, revealed that of the 159 people who went missing in 2023, 87...
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, today in Maputo, dismissed the conclusions of the report by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and approved by his current government on the increase in poverty levels in the country during the eight years of his two terms in office. Nyusi called into question the National Development Strategy (ENDE) report...
The Mozambican government has promised to soon release the report on the shipwreck that caused the death of 98 people on Ilha de Moçambique, in the administrative post of Lunga, Nampula province. "I think that in due course, in the next 10 or 15 days, the commission will not only come out with an exhaustive report on the...
In 2023, Mozambique was the scene of several incidents of serious violence and electoral intimidation during the local elections in October, with the police reacting violently to protests by opposition supporters against the way the electoral process was run. According to the Human Rights in the World 2023 report,...
The consultants hired by the government to develop the project to rehabilitate National Road No. 1 will present the final version of the report next May, and the initial part has already been delivered to the government. The project will be for intervention, in a first phase, on critical sections over a length of 1,000 kilometers, covering the routes...