Around 1,250 farmers have been assisted by Gorongosa National Park through the provision of 30 tons of seeds of various crops, such as maize, peanuts, sesame, beans and others. According to Profundus newspaper, PNG has also contributed to the Sustainable Livelihood Development Program (SLDP) to increase production...
Author: José Caetano (José Caetano)
If proven: Government promises exemplary punishment for agents who extorted South African tourists
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Eldevina Materula, confirmed a few days ago that the government is investigating the case of extortion of South African tourists on the island of Mozambique. "We received this complaint from a South African citizen with some concern. Immediately, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism interacted with the Ministry of the Interior...
AMUSI criminally prosecutes Nampula district STAE operations director
The United Movement for Integral Salvation (AMUSI) party announced yesterday that it had submitted a criminal complaint to the Nampula City Judicial Court against the operations director of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) in the Nampula district. The complaint arose from the fact that the director of STAE had set up a registration...
Flooding leaves some neighborhoods in the capital without electricity
Nine hundred families in the Polana Caniço, Triunfo and Inhagoia neighborhoods in Maputo city have been temporarily left without electricity due to flooding affecting some Transformer Stations (PT). A statement from Empresa Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), quoted by "Notícias", said that the flooding had caused disruption to the power distribution network. It forced the interruption to...
Articulated buses already running in Maputo
Articulated buses are already circulating in the greater Maputo metropolitan region. Until yesterday (16.04), bureaucratic issues prevented them from circulating, while thousands of people faced the daily transport crisis to get to their place of work. In all, in this first phase,...
Government says it has already paid 70% of overtime owed
Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane said today in Parliament that the government has already paid 323.4 million meticais out of the 457.6 million intended. The amount paid corresponds to 70%. In the meantime, the Prime Minister said that there are cases of overtime that are being checked at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which don't show clear evidence of...
Government approves proposal to revise law exempting WB from TA audit
The proposed revision of the law approved by the Council of Ministers essentially proposes the withdrawal of the powers of the Administrative Court (TA) to audit the accounts of public companies, including the Bank of Mozambique (BM). It also includes decentralizing the powers of the TA to the administrative courts in the provinces and Maputo City for auditing...
Nampula: three people caught with human bones
Three individuals have fallen into the hands of the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) in possession of four human bones that were allegedly desecrated in a grave at the Nihessiwe administrative post in the Murrupula district of Nampula. The weekly Ngani writes that the human bones seized were destined for the city of Nampula for commercial purposes, in...
Moza Banco launches project aimed at women
Moza Banco recently launched a project in Maputo called "Moza Women", through which the Bank intends to publicly convey its recognition of the importance of women in all social and development spheres in the country. This is a project which was based on the social panorama...
Galp supports pioneering exhibition promoting the use of LPG in Mozambique
Galp Moçambique will be present as a host at the LPG Expo in Maputo on April 17 and 18, a reflection of its commitment to developing a more convenient, more accessible and cleaner energy source for the Mozambican population, visible in the major investments made in recent years throughout the entire energy chain....