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...
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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...
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Global trade reaches record values in 2021
Global trade could reach the $28 trillion mark this year, reveals a new report from the United Nations Confederation, Unctad, released yesterday. The figure is 23% higher than last year and 11% higher than the figures for 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite this year's positive result, Unctad reveals that...
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UN estimates 38 million people living with HIV by 2020
Today the world marks World AIDS Day. According to data from the United Nations Organization, (UN), by 2020, an estimated 38 million people were living with HIV worldwide. And 2.78 million HIV-positive people are children and adolescents up to 19 years old. UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated...
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Portugal suspends flights with Mozambique until next year
The Portuguese Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI) announced this Wednesday that flights between Mozambique and Portugal will remain suspended until next year, precisely on January 9. And, in case of receiving passengers coming from Mozambique, they are obliged to remain isolated for 14 days. This obligation also applies to citizens "who...