Judge Efigénio Baptista postponed to November 30, 2022 the date for the reading of the sentences of the defendants in the case of Hidden Debts that should have been known on August 1 next. The postponement results from the complexity of the processes according to STV television this afternoon. And according to Lusa,...
Author: Leonor Manjate (Leonor Manjate)
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Fuel import cost for Mozambique quadruples
The cost of importing fuel to Mozambique will increase four times according to a comparison of the average prices proposed by the companies participating in the last two tenders launched by the Mozambican Oil Importer (IMOPETRO). From the tender launched at the end of last year it was found that the average price proposed by the companies was 44.93 dollars...
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BIOFUND installs the first "Biodiversity Room" in Sussundenga
This is the first environmentally friendly room led by the Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation (BIOFUND), inaugurated in the Sussundenga Secondary School, in Manica province, on July 11, 2022, by the Director of the District Education Services, in a ceremony that was attended by more than 100 people, highlighting the entities...
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IEA reduces forecast for oil consumption this year
Oil product consumption is expected to average 99.2 million barrels per day (bpd), 1.8% more than in 2021, but one-tenth less than forecast in June, according to a forecast shared today by the International Energy Agency (IEA). That downward revision is contained in the monthly report on the market...
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Paulina Chiziane records a film in Brazil
The Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane, the first black and African writer to win the Camões prize, is participating in the recording of a documentary in Brazil in which she exchanges letters with Brazilian Elisa Lucinda and Portuguese Raquel Lima. The documentary "Letters to..." by Vânia Lima, from Bahia, proposes a bridge between Brazil, Mozambique...
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Central Bank pays more than half of the fuel import bill
The fuel import bill for the Mozambican market has already absorbed 368 million dollars, and the Bank of Mozambique (BM) has paid another half of that amount, or 201 million dollars, corresponding to 54%, leaving the remainder in the responsibility of the commercial banks. According to the newspaper "Notícias" this is only the amount referring to the...
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Public Prosecutor charges five citizens with attempting to murder Nini Satar
The Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) has charged five of the six accused with the attempted murder of Momade Assif Satar, better known as Nini Satar, allegedly in March 2022. Of the accused in Criminal Case No. 46/10/2022, two are members of the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM) and three are inmates of the Special Maximum Security Penitentiary Establishment,...
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SERNIC presents kidnapping suspects in Maputo
The National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic), in Maputo City, on Tuesday presented two citizens suspected of being involved in kidnapping crimes. They are two Mozambican individuals aged 42 and 45 years old arrested following the tracing of kidnappings that occurred last year, according to the corporation. "The two individuals were constituted ...
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Contaminated "Kinder Surprise" chocolate is being sold in Mozambique
The chocolate of the brand "Kinder Surprise", whose production responsibility is the Italian "Ferrero", is being withdrawn from the national market by the National Inspection of Economic Activities (INAE) after its contamination by salmonella, a bacterium harmful to human health, was confirmed. The decision was taken after the "Ferrero" company initiated...
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Kidnapping and "ology" industry has profited $350 million in Mozambique
The "kidnapping and ransom business" in Mozambique has already earned the beneficiaries about 350 million dollars, according to data compiled by the Mahometan and Hindu communities. The information was recently advanced by a newspaper, and the same source says that these communities have proposed the hiring of international investigators to capture the mandates of the...