The reference interest rate ('prime rate') for credit operations in Mozambique in June will be 23.5%, announced the Mozambican Association of Banks (AMB), the maximum value of the last five years. According to data collected by Lusa, it is necessary to go back to May 2018 to find the same value....
Author: José Caetano (José Caetano)
Two more weather radars will be installed in the country starting next year
The country will have two more meteorological radars until the first quarter of next year, said the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Dina Ribeiro. The radars, to be installed in Xai-Xai, in Gaza province, and in Nacala-Porto, in Nampula province, are part of a project of the...
One million Mozambicans to have access to electricity by 2022
By 2022 more than one million Mozambicans will have access to electricity for the first time and the 154 districts of the country, their headquarters and 281 administrative posts will be electrified. The information was advanced this Thursday, by the President of the Republic Filipe Nyusi, during the inauguration of the national power grid of the post...
Sónia Sultuane exhibits ?Indigenous? at BCI
The Mozambican poet and plastic artist Sónia Sultuane, presented last Thursday, at BCI Private Space in Maputo, an art exhibition entitled "Indigenous", composed of about 50 works, with emphasis on earrings and necklaces, in which predominates the use of wood. In a well attended ceremony, which counted with the presence of...
Census offices will operate until midnight on the 4th
The National Election Commission has decided not to extend the ongoing voter registration, but has decided to extend the working hours from today (02/06) until tomorrow (3/06). Thus, tomorrow the posts will open at 7 am and will work until zero o'clock. Today, Friday, June 2, the voter registration offices will...
Manica: Detained two foreign citizens in possession of 70 firearms of different types
The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) arrested on Wednesday in the city of Chimoio, Manica, two foreign citizens in possession of 71 firearms of different types and calibers, magazines, bayonets, ammunition, machetes and bulletproof vests. They are citizens of Portuguese and Zimbabwean nationality who were caught in a residence in possession of firearms.
Strike paralyzes activities in some hospitals in the country
As had been announced, health professionals from almost the entire country are on strike since this morning, confirmed to MZNews, an official source linked to health. "Confirm it was announced days ago that as of June 1 we would not be working ... nothing has changed. We the health professionals ...
Terrorism: Mozambique to receive military equipment from Russia
Russia will provide military equipment to Mozambique to improve the national capacity to combat terrorism and defend the territory. The news was advanced on Wednesday in Maputo by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, after a long audience with the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi. In the room where the meeting was to take place,...
PR visits Sofala province
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, is on a working visit to Sofala province today, June 1. In this province, the Head of State will inaugurate the Electrical Network of the Administrative Post of Chupanga, in the district of Marromeu, as part of the "Energy for All" Program, which aims to expand electric power to the areas...
UNDP and Japan Sign Agreement for Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project in Cabo Delgado
The Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Mozambique signed today, at the Official Residence of Japan in Mozambique, the agreement of the Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project for Stabilization in Cabo Delgado Province, budgeted at 1,328,000,000 yen (about 10 million dollars). The agreement was signed...