China's Ministry of Finance has announced the elimination of customs duties for 98% on products imported from 16 developing countries, including Mozambique, starting September 1. According to a statement released Monday by the ministry, the Customs Tariff Commission of China's State Council decided to assign the status of 'tariff...
Author: José Caetano (José Caetano)
PGR assumes SERNIC's inability to investigate economic crimes
The deputy attorney general, Gloria Adamo acknowledged there is a limitation of national investigators to fight economic and financial crimes in the country. Gloria Adamo, who spoke on Monday in Maputo, in the training of fifty investigators of the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC), on matters of economic and financial crimes, defends the need for training of investigators, to combat those crimes.
Manhiça is once again a "stage" for blood
The district of Manhiça, Maputo province, continues to be the "stage" for bloodshed due to the high number of traffic accidents that occur there. Awareness-raising efforts by both government entities and civil society are intensifying, but the results are slow to appear. In less than ten hours,...
Zambézia. Police arrest ringleader of metical counterfeiting ring
The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM), in Zambezia, arrested last week in Gúrué district, a citizen accused of being the head of a network dedicated to counterfeiting of metical, the national currency, reports a police source quoted by Radio Mozambique. According to the source, from Gúruè, the group operated...
Reconstruction of Cabo Delgado. Young people in training in the construction business
Some 72 young people from Palma district are being trained in construction matters to be involved in the rehabilitation works of social infrastructures destroyed by terrorist attacks. The National Director of the National Institute for Vocational Training and Labor Studies, Alberto Cassimo, said quoted by Radio Mozambique that this is a...
Peace and Africa on the Chinese agenda for the UN Security Council
China, which this month chairs the United Nations Security Council, has scheduled two main debates at the UN, one on international peacekeeping and another focused on Africa. The information was advanced this Monday in a note released by the UN Security Council itself. The first is an open debate...
Jacob Zuma's corruption trial postponed again until October
The more than 20-year corruption case against former South African President Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thales has been postponed again by the High Court in Pietermaritzburg. Judge Piet Koen decided to postpone the corruption case to October 17 due to a pending appeal in the Constitutional Court submitted by the...
South African Airlink will have direct flights between Cape Town and Maputo
Airlink, South Africa's largest independent regional airline, will now run direct flights connecting the Mozambican capital Maputo with Cape Town, South Africa, the company said in a statement. "Airlink is responding to the call from the travel market for a direct service between the two coastal cities, which...
Food crisis hits 1800 families in Machaze
About 1800 families are facing a food crisis caused by drought and drought in the administrative post of Chipopopo, in the district of Machaze, Manica province. The head of the Department of Food Security and Nutrition in the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Fisheries, in Manica, Dionísio Rapieque, told journalists that the families...
Sofala. More than 1,500 motorists banned from driving in the next 12 months
More than 1500 motorists are barred from driving for the next twelve months for committing serious traffic violations in Sofala. The scenario comes at a time when the number of traffic accidents, which have mostly resulted in deaths, is tending to increase in the country, and the government has been taking...