Absa Bank Mozambique attended, on Tuesday (30), the conference "Renewables for Self Consumption in Mozambique" co-organized by the Lusophone Renewable Energy Association (ALER) and the Mozambican Renewable Energy Association (AMER) in partnership with the Industrial Association of Mozambique (AIMO). The focus of the event was to take an X-ray of the market potential and demand...
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Uber lets you book rides via WhatsApp
Uber Technologies recently announced that it plans to launch a feature that would allow users to book rides through the WhatsApp messaging service, which would help Uber tap into Meta Platforms' base of more than 500 million users. "Now you won't have to download or use the Uber app anymore. Everything,...
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Trump seeks to raise $1 billion for his social network
Former President Donald Trump's media company, Trump Media, is looking to raise up to $1 billion by selling shares to hedge funds and family offices to invest in the TRUTH Social network. Sources connected to the process have revealed that Trump Media is now looking to raise another $1 billion from a...
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Oil companies will lose workers to renewables
A survey by a recruitment firm has concluded that the oil and gas industry is on the verge of experiencing a labor shortage as more than half of the sector's workers look to migrate to the renewable energy industry. The survey showed that 43% of workers intend to leave the energy industry...
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Authorities promise to strengthen enforcement measures to reduce traffic accidents
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,...