United Nations humanitarian projects face an unprecedented funding shortfall this year, with only one-third of the $48.7 billion needed, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The money is needed to help some 204 million people around the world,...
Author: Leonor Manjate (Leonor Manjate)
New polio vaccination campaign starts on Thursday
The Ministry of Health (Misau) will start next Thursday a new national vaccination campaign against polio. The process, which ends on Sunday, is expected to cover about 7.8 million children aged up to five years. This new campaign comes after four confirmed cases of polio, in Tete province, supposedly imported...
Police question 15-seat car overcrowded with 37 passengers
The Traffic Police stopped, this Saturday, in Manhiça, a 15-seat passenger car with more than double the permitted capacity. There were 37 people in the car, including adults and children, making a trip and about 30 kilometers. According to STV, the car left the neighborhood 3 de...
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google accused of buying illegal gold from Amazon
Part of the gold illegally extracted from Brazilian indigenous lands is being used in computers from Apple and Microsoft, as well as in super-servers from Google and Amazon, according to a journalistic investigation published by the portal Repórter Brasil. Documents obtained by the portal revealed that these tech giants bought, in 2020 and 2021, gold from...
"First" Ukrainian grain shipment on its way to Africa
A ship made the first shipment of wheat in Ukraine on Friday for food aid in Ethiopia - the first food delivery to Africa under the UN-mediated plan to unblock grain held in that country. For months, fighting and a Russian blockade have caused grain produced in Ukraine, known...
"Investing in information processing to do business"
The Assistant Secretary-General for Technology at the United Nations representing Mozambique, Bernardo Mariano, defended, this Friday in Maputo, the need for investment in information processing to identify business opportunities. Sharing his experience at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mariano alerted, for example, to the investment in small industries that solve primary needs....
Nyusi's third term is still not an issue in the party - Former Combatants
A candidacy for the third presidential term of the current President of the Republic and the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), Filipe Nyusi, is not yet the subject of discussion in the party, because there is a lack of manifestation of interest by the President, according to the Secretary General of the Association of Combatants of the National Liberation Struggle (ACLLN). "At no time ...
TAP expenses are less expensive compared to 2018 and 2019
TAP told Lusa today that, to date, it has spent less than in 2018 and 2019 on all-inclusive aircraft rentals, contradicting accusations from the pilots' union. "Since the beginning of the year and up to the current date, TAP is spending on ACMI [all-inclusive aircraft rentals...
Health Minister threatens to fire employees. "We will kick them out!"
Health Minister Armindo Tiago has warned of the dismissal of sector employees who engage in corruption schemes and unseemly behavior with users, regardless of their position or status. "We're going to expel them! It doesn't matter if he is a nurse, if he is a servant, if he is a doctor, or a medical specialist. He who attends badly to the...
Zelensky wants to see the world refuse to issue visas to Russians
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has again defended a global visa ban on Russian citizens, claiming it is a "just" measure and calling on European allies to enforce it. "There must be a guarantee that Russian murderers and enablers of state terrorism will not use Schengen.(...) You cannot destroy the...