The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi and wife, Isaura Nyusi, tested positive for covid-19, indicates a press release issued by the Presidency of the Republic. According to the document, the Head of State underwent rapid tests whose result was positive. Even being asymptomatic, Filipe Nyusi and his wife are in isolation. Meanwhile, the President ...
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Stock market starts New Year with high opening
The three main Wall Street indexes opened the first session of the year in the green. The optimism, which has been reigning also this Monday in Europe, comes after the main North American stock markets have closed 2021 registering the third consecutive year of gains. Although usually the New York stock market is not...
Angola closes the year 2021 with Net International Reserves fixed at 9.8 MM USD
The Net International Reserves (NIR) closed the year 2021 with a value of 9.8 billion dollars, which corresponds to the current volume, the equivalent of 11 months of imports of goods and services. If compared with the closing of the previous year, an increase of more than a billion dollars is observed, remembering that...
National Biotechnology Center wants to train women in bio-entrepreneurship
Women entrepreneurs, students and young people with innovative ideas in the areas of agro-food, health, waste, natural beauty products or nutrition will be trained in February, in Maputo city, on bio-entrepreneurship. According to Notícias, the initiative is carried out by the National Center of Biotechnology and Biosciences (CNBB), an institution under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
Mozambique has a deficit of three thousand elementary school teachers this year
The current school year 2022 in the country will start in February with a deficit of three thousand teachers in primary education. According to the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education and Human Development, quoted by Lusa, the government plan pointed to the need to hire a total of 12 thousand teachers for the new...
Tour operators in Niassa cancel tourist reservations due to terrorism
Tour operators in Niassa Special Reserve cancelled all tourist reservations for the New Year's Eve party due to the outbreaks of terrorist attacks in Mecula district. According to the governor of Niassa, Judite Massengele, who was speaking last Wednesday in Lichinga, said that tour operators in the Niassa Special Reserve have cancelled activities for...
Isn't the crisis over after all? Evergrande again suspends stock market operations
The debt-ridden Chinese real estate group Evergrande suspended its operations on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange again this Monday without giving an explanation. Chinese media echoed a document from the local government of Danzhou, on the southern island of Hainan, which ordered Evergrande to demolish 39 buildings within ten days because the...
Omicron forces cancellation of about 2,500 flights on first day of year in U.S.
Some 2,500 flights were canceled to or from US airports on the first day of 2022, extending for the ninth day major air disruptions caused by the progression of the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus, exacerbated by a snowstorm. By 1:30 pm on the east coast of the United States, 2,482 cancellations were recorded nationwide, more...
Bitcoin up 60% in 2021, but the market has gained even more
In a year in which retail investors have bet heavily on the financial markets, cryptocurrencies have once again taken center stage. The expectation of huge gains in short periods of time attracted many people and led bitcoin, the most popular, to appreciate by about 60%. According to an analysis made by the portal "Eco...
Ressano Garcia's border registers intense movement of returning citizens
Migratory authorities at the border of Ressano Garcia in Maputo province, are working hard to ease the return movement of nationals and foreigners, who came to the country following the Christmas and New Year's festivities. There are a little more than 70 thousand citizens who will be able to return to their jobs in...