Access Bank Mozambique has just launched Access Africa. This is an international transfer platform which, from the Bank's branches in Mozambique, allows the institution's customers and non-customers to send and receive money to and from all the Group's subsidiaries on the African continent. The platform also allows...
The Minister of Health assured today that all the country's hospitals are "operating as normal", on the first day of the strike announced by the doctors. "The information we have, via telephone contact, is that throughout the country the National Health Service is operating as normal," said Armindo Tiago, during...
A group of three hunters found two bodies of pregnant women with signs of rape, on Sunday, in a stream "known as Mambi", in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique. The victims were allegedly murdered while taking refuge in the bush from armed attacks in the region, according to residents quoted by 'Observador'. The two women, who fled the...
The Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA) is calling on the government to remain vigilant and implement measures to prevent excessive taxation. For entrepreneurs, the trend towards an increase in the tax burden, currently calculated at 36.1%, greatly jeopardizes business sustainability in the country. If there is a progressive increase in the tax burden, it could rise to...
The Minister for Public Works, Housing and Water Resources is urging the managers of the Water Supply Investment and Heritage Fund, FIPAG, to be rigorous in collecting debts owed by various public and private institutions. Carlos Mesquita argues that FIPAG should act as a profit-generating company and not as an institution...
Judge Efigénio Baptista today harshly criticized the void that exists in the country's current Penal Code, which does not specify with the necessary clarity the scale of the penal framework to be applied to those who commit the crime of embezzlement. The judge's position stems from the fact that he couldn't find in the law the corresponding...
The President of the Republic (PR), Filipe Nyusi, launched the electronic system for issuing visas to foreigners, called 'e-Visa', in Maputo today. The system will be operated by the National Migration Service, and is expected to reduce bureaucracy, fight corruption, improve the business environment and encourage good governance. "Another plus...
The Mozambican airline, Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique, LAM, was forced to cancel today's flights (05/12) due to the unavailability of its four aircraft, as they were undergoing a one-off repair, the company said in a statement sent to our newsroom. The statement says that the unavailability of the aircraft was verified this morning,...
The number of HIV infections in Mozambique is higher among women and adolescent girls than among men and boys. One in four women between the ages of 35 and 39 is HIV-positive, equivalent to 26.6%, compared to 15.9% in men, according to the newspaper "Notícias", which cites data from 2021, taken from the...
The National Petroleum Institute (INP) has guaranteed that four more wells will be drilled for oil prospecting and production next year, within the areas awarded under the fifth tender for this purpose. The tender covered the maritime area (east) of the Rovuma Basin, the Zambezi Delta, the area around the concession...