The Portuguese oil company Galp (re)inaugurated, this Wednesday, a storage and bottling plant for cooking gas cylinders, in the city of Matola, Maputo province, whose investment was around 12 million dollars. The new Galp unit is capable of filling 1,200 11-kilogram bottles of cooking gas every hour....
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Will Smith's Porsche 911 Turbo in "Bad Boys" goes up for auction
Will Smith's Porsche 911 Turbo, which he used for scenes in the movie "Bad Boys" in 1996, will be auctioned next January by Mecum Auctions in Kissimmee (Florida, USA). At the end of the action movie starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, this 911 makes a chase...
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Beira City will have a flood mitigation yard as of next January
The city of Beira will have an urban landfill site next January. This is an infrastructure to mitigate the floods that cyclically buffet the central capital city. Sketched out four years ago by the Mozambican Dredging Company (EMODRAGA) and the Beira City Council, this infrastructure will store quantities of sand dredged...
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"Secret Fund" for Cabo Delgado reconstruction is underway in Maputo
The monthly report (October) from Cabo Ligado - an observatory of conflicts in Mozambique - concluded that the Government has consolidated, in Maputo, control of the Reconstruction Plan for Cabo Delgado, leaving little to say to the population that should benefit from the funds. And, on the other hand, the document states that the variations in the estimates...
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Government and Korean agency implement accident reduction project in Maputo
Government and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), are studying ways to reduce blood on the roads of the country's capital, especially on the roads of Maputo Metropolitan Area, which includes the municipalities of Maputo, Matola, Boane and Marracuene. To this end, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC), plans, with support from KOICA,...
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Displaced people complain of lack of food due to reduction of food aid
The reduction of food aid leaves the displaced people from the war in Cabo Delgado starving in Corane Centre, Meconta district, Nampula province. According to them, the government, through the Institute for Natural Disaster Risk Management (INGD), has been distributing food, but it is not enough for everyone. In a...
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Galp points to lasting peace as condition for investment in Mozambique
The development that Mozambique expects from investment in gas projects in Cabo Delgado province is entirely dependent on an environment where sustainable and lasting peace reigns, the chief executive of Galp said on Tuesday in Maputo. According to Andy Brown, in a first instance this condition will help "people, who need security...
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Mozambique and Malawi to link power grids
The presidents of Mozambique and Malawi intend to unite the electricity grids of the two countries to flow the power produced at the Cahora Bassa dam in the province of Tete which borders Malawi. During the launching of the project, on Tuesday in Balaka, (Malawi), it was learned that the high voltage line comprising...
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Oxford Economics Africa to review national economic growth
National economic growth may go from a revision to 2%, according to the consultancy Oxford Economics Africa. And this will be due to the development recorded in the third quarter of 2021, being the highest record since before the pandemic. Analysts say that there was a growth in the order of 3.36% between July and September 2021. The...
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Mozambique launches new tender for oil and gas exploration
The Government will launch, this Thursday, a new tender for the concession of 16 areas for oil and gas exploration and production, in order to meet the needs of energy transition using 'cleaner' energies, such as natural gas. According to the President of the Administration Council (PCA) of the National Petroleum Institute (INP),...