The director general of European Union (EU) Missions on Tuesday in Maputo expressed satisfaction with "progress" in the work of the EU Military Training Mission which prepares Mozambican forces to face terrorism in the north of the country. "The work is going very well," Hervé Bléjean told the media after a meeting...
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Government raises minimum wages between 3.6% and 7.6%
The Council of Ministers approved, this Tuesday, new minimum wages, whose increases range between 3.6% and 7.6%. The smallest increment goes to the salt miners, with an increase of 3.6%, now with a minimum wage of 5.759 meticais, followed by the kapenta fish fishery, 4.3%, increasing the lowest wage in the sector to 4.591 meticais, and...
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Mozambique's airports to drop by 56% between 2019 and 2021
The Mozambique Airport, a public company has decreased from 3.5 billion meticals in 2019 to 1.5 billion meticals (22 million meticais) in 2021, said the company's president, Américo Muchanga. "Our company, in 2019, had revenues on the order of 3.5 billion meticais. These revenues, in 2020, fell to...
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Vale completes process of transferring assets to Vulcan Resources
Brazilian mining company Vale, has just completed the responsible transfer of the Moatize operation and the Nacala Logistics Corridor to Vulcan Resources, based on the binding asset sale agreement announced last December 21st. The completion of the shareholder transaction was subject to the fulfillment of customary conditions precedent, including...
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Algeria disburses $250,000 to support victims of Cyclone Ana
The Embassy of Algeria last week in Maputo city offered 250,000 dollars in support of the victims of tropical storm Ana, registered in January in the northern and central areas of the country. The check, equivalent to 16 million meticais, was delivered to the president of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD),...
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ANE invests 300 million meticais for maintenance of EN1 in Inhambane
The road sector is investing over 314 million meticais in the periodic maintenance of the National Road Number (EN1), between the localities of Chissibuca and Lindela, in Inhambane province, a section that was already in an advanced state of degradation. The delegate of the National Roads Administration (ANE), Dady Novelo, explained that...
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Mozambique is target of million-dollar expedition on Homo Sapiens migrations 70,000 years ago
The European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant will fund research on "the dynamics of early Homo sapiens migrations in and from Africa". The 2.5 million euro grant has been awarded to the Portuguese researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB) at the University of...
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Completion of the rehabilitation of the Port of Nacala will be delayed by almost two years
The conclusion of the rehabilitation, modernization and expansion works of Nacala Port, in the province of Nampula, will be delayed by 21 months (already nine months), since the projections indicated July 2021 and now, according to "Notícias", it is expected that this will occur in April 2023. The contract is being financed by...
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Cavalo do Mar, Camões and Nedbank hold "Resilience" literature festival
Editora Cavalo do Mar and Camões - Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo, in partnership with Nedbank Mozambique, are promoting the RESILIÊNCIA - Literature Festival, 5th edition, on the 3rd and 4th of May 2022, having as motto the celebration of the centenary of birth of two great names of literature in Portuguese language,...
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Researchers find remains of Dicinodon in Mozambique
A group of international researchers discovered for the first time in Mozambique and Zambia fossils of Dicinodon angielczyki, an ancestor of mammals. The Portuguese paleontologist that is part of the team, Ricardo Araújo, said that the species had already been found in Tanzania, and "it is the first time that we discovered this species in Mozambique and in...