The three main Wall Street indexes opened the first session of the year in the green. The optimism, which has been reigning also this Monday in Europe, comes after the main North American stock markets have closed 2021 registering the third consecutive year of gains. Although usually the New York stock market is not...
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Angola closes the year 2021 with Net International Reserves fixed at 9.8 MM USD
The Net International Reserves (NIR) closed the year 2021 with a value of 9.8 billion dollars, which corresponds to the current volume, the equivalent of 11 months of imports of goods and services. If compared with the closing of the previous year, an increase of more than a billion dollars is observed, remembering that...
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Hidden Debts. Trial has new date to restart and hear Armando Guebuza
The trial sessions on the financial ruin that damaged Mozambique in about US$2.2 billion, known as "Case of Hidden Debts", will resume on January 17 this year, according to an order issued by the judge of the case. With this, Efigénio Baptista changed the initial date, January 6th, foreseen for the...
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Just watching... Rich countries 'cheat' WHO and vaccines arrive in drops for the poor
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Covax Facility initiative with the goal of vaccinating some two billion people worldwide. This purpose had the moral encouragement of the richer countries that promised the WHO enough doses to get there, but it didn't get much more than that....
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National Biotechnology Center wants to train women in bio-entrepreneurship
Women entrepreneurs, students and young people with innovative ideas in the areas of agro-food, health, waste, natural beauty products or nutrition will be trained in February, in Maputo city, on bio-entrepreneurship. According to Notícias, the initiative is carried out by the National Center of Biotechnology and Biosciences (CNBB), an institution under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
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Floating platform for gas exploration is already in Mozambican waters
The National Petroleum Institute (INP) announced, this Monday, the arrival of the floating platform for natural gas exploration in national waters. A statement from the INP said that work is now underway to certify the heliport for landing and take-off of helicopters that will carry the service teams. The platform...
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Hyundai and Kia expect increased car sales amid chip shortage
Hyundai Motor and South Korea's Kia Corp subsidiary have forecast that their combined sales worldwide will increase by 12.1% in 2022, even as 2021 sales fell short of target due to a widespread chip shortage. In the past, the companies have sold 6.67 million vehicles,...
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Mozambique has a deficit of three thousand elementary school teachers this year
The current school year 2022 in the country will start in February with a deficit of three thousand teachers in primary education. According to the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education and Human Development, quoted by Lusa, the government plan pointed to the need to hire a total of 12 thousand teachers for the new...
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Tesla breaks delivery record even as car production supplies run short
Tesla announced that it achieved record sales of electric cars in the fourth quarter of last year, even as supplies for production ran short. This finding suere that the company exceeded Wall Street's expectations as it ramped up vehicle production in China. Tesla managed to deliver 308,600 vehicles...
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More than one million people are food insecure
The Technical Secretariat for Nutrition and Food Security (SETSAN) has made it known that about 1.9 million people could be at high levels of Acute Food Insecurity in Mozambique by March 2022, writes the letter citing a SETSAN study. The conclusion comes after the latest CPI of Acute Food Insecurity concerning...