World income is expected to fall by 19% by 2026, exacerbated by high temperatures, floods and large-scale forest fires, according to a study including researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. According to the work, the impact will be widespread, affecting even all governments and large corporations. The crisis will be...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that the Mozambican economy will grow by 5% this year, along with Guinea-Bissau, the two best performers among the Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP). The IMF's World Economic Outlook Report presented this week states that Cape Verde will grow by 4.7%, São Tomé and Príncipe by 2.9%,...
The Black Bulls have appealed to the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) to find out about the possibility of negotiating directly with Sporting de Portugal to sell the pass of Mozambican player Geny Catamo. The revelation was made to the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias by Rafik Sidat, a Mozambican businessman based in Portugal...
The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam) has published a report in which it points to countries that are over-indebted to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). IMF and WB loans to Mozambique increase income imbalance index The document states that this condition accentuates the socio-economic differences of the countries in that condition, and...
An Oxfam analysis reveals that Mozambique is one of the countries with a high level of income imbalance due to loans or subsidies from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and/or the World Bank (WB). Oxfam based its study on a Gini coefficient above 0.4, a level considered alarming by the United Nations....
Renamo MP Venâncio Mondlane describes the Renamo National Council, held on Sunday, as autocratic, dictatorial, funereal and frightening, because it did not address irrevocable aspects in accordance with the party's statutes. The former advisor to Ossufo Momade says that the meeting violated the party's statutes by not discussing the financial year...
On October 11, 2023, local elections were held in Mozambique. The FRELIMO party, in power since independence in 1975, won again. However, controversies arose over transparency and allegations of irregularities. The main opposition parties, RENAMO and MDM, contested the results. Although the National Electoral Commission (CNE) has...
Ossufo Momade's former and closest aide says that there is strong evidence of Frelimo's modus operandi influencing the actions of the Renamo party. "It's a copy paste! "I can talk about things that may indicate that sometimes we reproduce Frelimo values inside [Renamo]," said Venâncio Mondlane, noting, however, that...
Renamo MP Venâncio Mondlane believes that the party has several problems, but points to the current leadership as the main and most obvious one, which needs to be replaced by the will of the people. "The most prominent, talked about and obvious problem at the moment is Renamo's leadership, especially the party's top leadership. The people, in this...
The ratio of ophthalmologists in Mozambique is one for every one million inhabitants, ophthalmologist Margarida Chagunda revealed today in Maputo, and suggests that other professionals should be employed in eye health matters. "Human resources for health, in general, are very limited, and for eye health even more so. We have...