The executive promises to strengthen enforcement measures in order to reduce the rates of traffic accidents and make national roads safer, particularly during the upcoming holiday season. According to the Prime Minister, Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, who was speaking this Wednesday at the government question session in the Portuguese Parliament, the...
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OPEC+ forecasts oil surplus next year
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) predicts that next year there will be an oversupply of oil, estimating that the highest rates will occur from January through March. According to the base case scenario, which takes into account the latest decisions of OPEC+ (OPEC and 10 allied countries)...
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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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Government persists in creating three million jobs for young people by 2024
State Secretary for Youth and Employment Osvaldo Petersburg maintains that the government's goal remains to create three million jobs for young people by 2024. Osvaldo Petersburg made this pronouncement during the opening of a center for the professional training of young people in various specialties, including mechanics....
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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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Fews Network: "Lack of support continues to limit humanitarian food aid to displaced people"
The Famine Early Warning Network (Fews) finds that a lack of support continues to limit humanitarian assistance to war displaced people in Cabo Delgado. In its latest report, the organization reveals that due to a lack of resources, the World Food Programme (WFP) continues to provide half-yearly rations equivalent to 39% of the...