The Government will tomorrow go to the Assembly of the Republic (AR) to answer 15 questions from the parliamentary benches. Among the issues that Frelimo wants to see clarified are the prevention of road accidents, rainy season (2021/2022) and food prices during the festive season. Renamo wants to know what actions are being taken to stop kidnappings,...
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China blocks Spanish newspaper ABC after criticism of Xi Jinping's government
The Chinese government has decided to block access to the digital edition of the Spanish newspaper ABC, after that newspaper published a profile of the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, and a chronicle on the disappearance of celebrities in the Asian country. According to Pablo M. Díez, ABC's correspondent in Asia since 2005 and based in Beijing, the edition...
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Moza Banco present at the 6th edition of the African Accounting Congress
Moza Banco participated last Friday in the 6th edition of the African Accounting Congress (ACOA 2021), held in Maputo. Co-organized by the Order of Accountants and Auditors of Mozambique (OCAM) and the Pan African Federation of Accountants, the congress gathered 1500 delegates, between national and international. According to the President of the Executive Council (PCE) of Moza...
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Vale begins to transform mining waste into construction materials
Brazilian mining company Vale is now directing its investments toward the construction sector. The company has begun extracting sand from leftover iron ore processing to supply construction projects in Brazil. At the same time, Vale is developing a type of low-emission geopolymer cement that...
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Prime rate will close the year at 18.6%
The Mozambican Association of Banks (AMB) announced today that Mozambique's benchmark interest rate for December will remain for the third consecutive month at 18.6%. The rate calculated by AMB and Banco de Moçambique is based on a single index of 13.3% (calculated by the Central Bank) which remains unchanged and a premium...
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Covid-19: Omicron variant was dectected first in Europe, before South Africa
First the "world" closes its doors to Southern Africa, and today, the Dutch Health authorities reveal that Omicron was already present in the country since the middle of the month. On the portal of the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), we can read that two samples were taken on the 19th and 23rd of...
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France allows vaccinating "vulnerable" children from 5 to 11 years old
France's health authority, Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), has now allowed covid-19 vaccination for children aged five to 11 who are considered at risk, or who live with people vulnerable to the disease. The decision by the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), known on Tuesday, comes after the European Agency's approval...
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WTO report reveals destinations with fully closed borders
The World Tourism Organization (WTO) says that a total of 46 (21%) tourist destinations in the world have their borders closed to international tourism, 26 of them since the end of April 2020. The information is contained in the report on travel restrictions, released Friday, which finds that another 55 (25% of all...
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Covid-19: See the first comparative image of the omicron and delta variant
A team of researchers from the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome, Italy, has sought to map mutations in the omicron variant of Sars-Cov-2 and compare it to existing images of the delta variant. What is already known is that the omicron variant has a higher number of mutations - about 30,000 - than the others, but, as...
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The scenario has changed. Crude Oil is on track for the biggest monthly drop this year
Oil is falling again, after rising more than 3% this Monday, recovering from last Friday's "plunge". This comes at a time when investors' fears are growing due to the omicron variant. This Tuesday, across all markets, oil is in the red. The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is at...