The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, called yesterday, Monday (05), for a discussion without "taboos" on the impact and fight against drug trafficking in the countries of eastern and southern Africa, advocating reforms and regional cooperation. According to Filipe Nyusi, who was speaking in Maputo at the third high-level meeting of the Commission for Eastern and Southern Africa...
The provinces of Maputo, Nampula, Cabo Delgado and Zambézia are part of the main heavy drug trafficking route in the country, whose protagonists are members of crime syndicates. The information was given yesterday, Wednesday (17), by the Minister of the Interior, Pascoal Ronda, on the first day of the session of questions to the government in Parliament....
A total of 582 people, three of them foreigners, have been arrested in the country since January last year in connection with drug trafficking. The information was given today, Wednesday (17), by the Minister for the Interior, Pascoal Ronda, on the first day of the session of questions to the government in Parliament. According to the minister,...
The Mozambican government will not request the extradition of Ana Massuanganhe, the private secretary of the Deputy Minister of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs, who was arrested last month in India for drug trafficking. The position was put forward by the Minister of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs, Helena Kida, who justifies the decision by the fact that there is no...
The Attorney General of Mozambique today called for support in the fight against drug trafficking, given the "webs" that this type of crime already has in the country's public institutions, from the police to politics. Speaking in Maputo at the opening ceremony of the 2024 judicial year, Beatriz Buchili emphasized the need to continue...
This Wednesday, March 1, the Assembly of the Republic (AR) will discuss, behind closed doors, the report of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) set up to investigate the alleged involvement of a member of the Assembly of the Republic in drug trafficking in Zambezia. According to a 56-page document, quoted by the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD)...
Seven defendants, five of whom are Mozambican nationals and the rest foreigners, will appear in court accused of trafficking and other illegal activities. According to a statement from the Central Office for Combating Organized and Transnational Crime (GCCCOT), the defendants are also accused of misuse of equipment, material and precursors, criminal association...
Two Mozambican men were arrested in the South African province of Mpumalanga, which borders Mozambique, with 53 kilograms of drugs worth an estimated 2.9 million euros, South African police announced yesterday. "Fifty-eight plastic bags containing 53 kilograms of 'crystal meth' with a commercial value of around 53 million rand [2.9...
The Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) arrested a Guinean citizen from Guinea Conakry in Marracuene, Maputo province, on charges of exchange trafficking. SERNIC investigated the citizen for a week, reports "Notícias", quoting the spokesman for the police in Maputo, Henrique Mendes. The police reportedly received a tip-off that the detainee was in...
The National Criminal Investigation Service of Mozambique (SERNIC) arrested last Friday, in the city of Beira, a businessman of Nigerian origin indicted for the crime of drug trafficking, announced official source. "This citizen, of Nigerian origin, is a businessman of the square who is engaged in the sale of cosmetics throughout the central region," he told the...