The state-owned company Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) is going through difficult times in terms of management and revenue collection, and cannot even stand on its own feet, so it needs and has been receiving money, guarantees and financial exemptions from the state. An audit conducted by Ernst & Young revealed that the airline company of...
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Government defends improved social protection for citizens
The Government pronounced on Wednesday in favor of concerted solutions for the creation of more jobs and improvement of social protection for citizens. The Prime Minister, Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, made public such commitment speaking on Wednesday, in Maputo, at the Global Forum of the International Labor Organization (ILO). Speaking on behalf of the President of the...
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Hidden Debts: Court discusses attachment of assets of 11 co-defendants today
Court holds today, in special session, the contradictory to discuss the request of the Public Ministry to seize more than 60 properties and 50 parcels of 11 co-defendants in the case of hidden debts. Postponed last Monday due to lack of notification of the co-defendants' lawyers about the matter under consideration, the session takes place with...
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Mozambique loses $60 million a year to illegal fishing
The country loses about US$60 million annually due to illegal fishing, says the Minister of Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries. Augusta Maíta said on Wednesday in Maputo at the opening of the Inter-institutional Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing that some artisanal fishing operators, in addition to using mosquito nets to...
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Strike at Xinavane Sugar Company: Celso Correia meets with Sugar Subsector today
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, is meeting today, Thursday, with the National Sugar Subsector, in Manhiça district, Maputo province, at the MARAGRA sugar factory. According to the statement, the meeting will bring together representatives from national sugar factories, associations of sugar producers from Mozambique with the aim of making...
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SERNIC dismantles residence that would be used as captivity for the kidnappings
The National Criminal Investigation Service dismantled this Wednesday, a residence in Maputo, which was being prepared to serve as captivity of another victim of kidnappers. It is a luxurious residence, located in the Triunfo neighborhood, one of the noble areas of the capital of the country. In connection with the dismantling of the residence, the police arrested
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Janato I. Janato launches book "Hired to be Mayor"
The Mozambican writer, Janato I. Janato, will launch his first book, entitled "Hired to be Mayor", at 6:00 pm, this Friday, at the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Center, in Maputo City. The book portrays the journey of a young Master of Ceremonies who was enticed by two men in suits and ties to be the President of a Municipality....
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Prime Minister participates in the II session of the ILO Global Forum
The Prime Minister, Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, is today participating, virtually, in the second session of the Global Forum of the International Labor Organization (ILO). The forum, which brings together heads of state and government, international organizations and development banks, employers and workers from around the world, aims to increase the level and coherence of the response...
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MINEDH guarantees that textbook will arrive at the end of this month
The books for the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th grade of the National Education System may be in the country still this month, about a month after the beginning of the current school year 2022. The guarantee was given a few days ago, in Maputo, by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH), Gina Guibunda, having referred that...
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Mozambique could grow by 5% this year
Mozambique may grow at 5% this year, up from 2.8 % recorded last year, and above the best average (4%) recorded between 2015 and 2019. The information is contained in the report by the Financial Reporting Agency, FITCH, which MZNews had access to. The agency mentions the lifting of social distancing measures, the increase...