The world's coal-fired power production is expected to increase by 9% this year compared to last year's 2020, threatening the targets set for carbon neutrality by 2050, according to a report by the International Energy Agency released this Friday and reported by Bloomberg. According to the International Energy Agency report, in the United States alone and...
Author: Salvador Baloi (Salvador Baloi)
Parliament approved 34 points during the IV Session
The Assembly of the Republic (AR) approved 34 of the 44 points initially planned for the IV Ordinary Session of the IX Legislature that ended this Friday. The president of the Assembly of the Republic, Esperança Bias, said at the closing speech of the session. However, Esperança Bias also pointed out that some matters were not...
Mozambican writer David Bene is the winner of the Imprensa Nacional/Vasco Graça Moura 2021 Award
The Mozambican David Bene won this Friday the National Press/Vasco Graça Moura Award 2021, with the poetry work "The emptiness of a sky without hymns". According to the promoter of the award, the jury believes that the winning work "seeks a language loaded with meaning, sometimes impersonal, sometimes sarcastic, between the fading memory of the...
Valter Mabasso is the winner of Ngoma Mozambique 2021
The musician Valter Mabasso was the big winner of the Thirty-third edition of Ngoma Mozambique 2021, whose final took place this Friday in Maputo city. The guitarist and composer Valter Mabas won the Best Song 2021 award with the song Cherry, from his new album Blue Window. Singer Mr Kuka won the Best...
Mozambique authorized to operate direct flights to Canada as of this Saturday
The Canadian Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, revealed on Friday that Mozambique is on the list of ten countries that will again be allowed to make direct flights to Canadian territory. "Flights from 10 countries - Botswana, Essuatini, Egypt, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe - will again be allowed...
"Oversight of Science, Technology and Higher Education remains a challenge"
The Permanent Secretary of MCTES (Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education), Nilsa Miquidade considers that the supervision of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) is still a challenge in the country. According to Nilsa Miquidade, who was speaking during the closing ceremony for the capacity building of Science, Technology and Higher Education inspectors, in order to achieve results in the...
Meet the camera the size of a grain of salt but with the quality of others 500,000 times bigger
It is a nanotechnology innovation that could also lead to the entire surface of our computers or cell phones eventually becoming a camera, and there would be no need to create separate cameras. In fact, technology has evolved and cameras get smaller and smaller, so small that there is now one the size of a grain...
Russian government supports victims of terrorism in Cabo Delgado
The government of Russia has approved the disbursement of an additional two million dollars of humanitarian aid to Mozambique, with a focus on the victims of the terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado. According to the Russian ambassador in Maputo, Alexander Surikov, in his year-end statement issued this Thursday, the aid will be channeled through the...
South Africa offers two million Johnson & Johnson vaccines to the rest of the continent
South Africa will donate two million Johnson & Johnson vaccines to the rest of the continent, through a platform created by the African Union (AU). According to the South African government, the doses will be available over the course of next year. "This donation represents South Africa's solidarity with our brothers and sisters...
"Terrorism and pandemic hurt businesses in 2021," - CTA
The Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA), considered on Wednesday that the war in Cabo Delgado and the covid-19 pandemic were the main challenges faced by Mozambican business in 2021. According to the president of CTA, Agostinho Vuma, the insecurity situation in Cabo Delgado province and the suspension of Total's activities...