A Public Security Police officer in Lisbon, Portugal, shot dead a Cape Verdean immigrant, identified as Odair Moniz, 43, in the Cova da Moura neighborhood of Amadora in the early hours of Monday morning. The official version, according to the Portuguese media, indicated that Moniz wielded a melee weapon against the PSP patrol....
The progress of governance in Africa has been interrupted by the deterioration of security and political rights in many countries, says the Ibrahim Index of African Governance 2024 (IIAG) of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation published yesterday, Wednesday (23). "Africa made great progress in the first decades of this century, but in the last 10 years we see that there has been...
Nineteen undocumented Mozambican citizens were taken into custody on Wednesday (16) after a brief hearing at the Pilgrim's Rest Magistrates' Court in South Africa. According to police spokesperson Captain Magonseni Nkosi, the suspects were arrested following an operation conducted by members linked to Mpumalanga's Operation Vala Umgodi on Tuesday (15). The...
Five Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, including Mozambique, have reiterated their call for the removal of sanctions and other punitive measures imposed on Zimbabwe. The call was reiterated on Wednesday afternoon in the city of Lilongwe, during the SADC Anti-Sanctions Day celebrations, according to "Noticias." In a joint statement...
The President of the UN General Assembly, Philémon Yang, said that Africa needs "urgent" international support and systemic reforms to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 2063 (African Union framework). In a publication by Voice of America (VOA), Yang also highlighted Africa's potential during the New Partnership debate...
World public debt is expected to reach 100 trillion dollars by the end of this year, which corresponds to around 93% of the world's gross domestic product (GDP), according to IMF estimates released this Tuesday, October 15. According to the IMF, quoted by the Portuguese newspaper Negócios, by the end of the decade the debt should...
Mozambican Denise Nicolau is on the shortlist for the second edition of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's RE.GENERATION program. In a publication by Radio France Internationale (RFI), Denise Nicolau, a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, spoke about her work protecting the Indian Ocean and the mission of the Great Wall...
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson are the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics. According to a publication by Radio France Internationale (RFI), these economists have proved through their studies that disparities in wealth between countries can be justified by the good or bad management of their institutions. Many of the disparities...
The European Commission has now proposed the digitization of passports and identity documents, such as the citizen's card, and the creation of an "EU digital travel app" for travellers in the Schengen area. A common framework for the use of digital travel credentials and an "EU digital travel app" is proposed,...
Yesterday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to 53-year-old author Han Kang, the first South Korean woman to receive this prestigious award. The academy justified its choice, saying that she deserved the prize for "her intense poetic prose that confronts trauma and exposes the fragility of...