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Covid-19: International community is being unfair to Africa. "It's an Apartheid of travel"

The United Nations (UN) assumed on Wednesday that the international community is treating the African continent with "injustice and immorality" and that, from the standpoint of the covid-19 pandemic and the climate crisis, Africa is condemned to an extremely difficult situation. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has criticized the countries...

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MTC suspends new interprovincial and international transport tariffs

The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) has decided to suspend the new inter-provincial and international road transport tariffs, proposed by the Mozambican Road Transport Federation (FEMATRO), which should have come into force this Wednesday. According to the MTC there needs to be further negotiations with the operators with a view to finding a middle ground on the public transport tariff. "It is in...

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Europe negotiates an enhanced protocol for resuming flights with Southern Africa

The French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, said today, that Europe is already negotiating an extremely strengthened protocol to be able to resume suspended flights with southern Africa due to the Ómicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, recently detected in South Africa. During an interview with the RTL radio station,...

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WHO wants to reach agreement on preventing and fighting pandemics

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday launched a negotiating plan to reach an international agreement to prevent and fight the next pandemic more effectively. The 194 members of the WHO were unanimous in the decision, after three days of meetings of the World Health Assembly, the highest decision-making body...

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Government creates inspection to investigate subsidies in the INSS

Government said today in parliament that it has ordered an extraordinary and urgent inspection to be carried out at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) in order to clarify the scandal of the approval of the starting allowance for members of the Board of Directors. According to the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Margarida Talapa, who was responding to the...

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Mozambique has already vaccinated 53% of the population living in rural areas

The Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, said today in parliament that 53% of the population living in rural areas has already been vaccinated against covid-19. Responding to a question posed by the parliamentary bench of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), Armindo Tiago, said that the number of the Mozambican population already vaccinated in the countryside exceeds so far the...

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Tourism raises USD 157 million in flights, but omicron threatens CTA expectations

The CTA-Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique said Wednesday in Maputo that the tourism sector has raised about $157 million (14%) in business and leisure flights alone during January and September 2021 as a result of the relaxation of covid-19 prevention measures. During a press conference on the...

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About 2.9 billion people have never used the Internet due to lack of access

The Facts and Figures report from the International Telecommunication Union, ITU, reveals that 37% of the world's population have never used the internet because they do not have access to the resource. This year, the number of people who used the internet rose to 4.9 billion compared to the amount of 4.1 billion in 2019. ITU secretary-general Houlin Zhao states that...