Professor and literary critic Francisco Noa has been a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences since July 6. The Mozambican academic occupies the "seat" of the ACL among the foreign corresponding members of the class of letters, to which José Paulo Cavalcanti, Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito, Roberto Vecchi, Michel Dupuis, Allan Williams,... have also been admitted.
"Tiago, out!": Mozambican doctors demand resignation of Health Minister
The Medical Association of Mozambique (AMM) took to the streets of the capital Maputo today to demand better working conditions, which have been under discussion with the Executive since the end of last year. Today's strike follows the extension for a further 21 days of the announced 21-day strike, the first phase of which began on...
TSU: Government cancels setting new salaries for civil servants in positions of leadership and trust
The time for civil servants and state agents with managerial positions and/or positions of trust to submit their complaints with a view to setting salaries as part of the implementation of the Single Salary Scale (TSU) has run out. In effect, the Executive will no longer set new salaries. The information was shared on Friday (04) by Director...
Mozambique introduces biometric model for carrying out Proof of Life via smartphone
Mozambique is introducing innovations in the Proof of Life model to combat the existence of phantom state officials and agents. The pilot phase of the process is using biometrics. According to the Director of Planning at the Ministry of State Administration and Civil Service, there is awareness...
Doctors/Teachers: MEF guarantees budget allocation of 176 billion meticais for all state agents and employees
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) guarantees that there are funds to meet the commitments to pay salaries and overtime to all state employees and agents, including to meet the demands of the medical and teaching professions. The deputy minister of the MEF, Amílcar Tivane, assured that in order to meet this...
Labor disputes increase by more than 140%
The Maputo Center for Labor Mediation and Arbitration revealed that labor disputes between employees and employers increased by about 1,47%, from 521 last year to 1,288 in the first half of this year. Among the main factors are unfair dismissals, non-payment of wages, unilateral termination of contracts...
FAO DG reappointed until 2027
Chinese diplomat Qu Dongyu was re-elected Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Sunday (02) for four years, with 168 votes in favour, the organization announced. Dongyu was elected with 168 of the 182 votes cast in a secret ballot held at the ministerial conference, the organization said in a statement....
CIP reveals the pattern of state capture by the private sector, especially banking
The Mozambican state is captured by the private sector or private interests, according to the Center for Public Integrity (CIP), which points to the recent appointment of the former Prime Minister of Mozambique, Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, to the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors (PCA) of Banco Comercial de Investimentos (BCI). CIP notes that the "revolving doors" phenomenon,...
TSU: 14,000 Maputo City Civil Servants Integrated
More than 14,400 state employees and agents have been included in the Single Salary Table (TSU) in Maputo City, which corresponds to 95.8 percent of the professionals to be integrated. The integration of the remaining 629 could be completed once the mechanisms for migrating from the registration and management system to the...
PR calls for constructive involvement of state employees in TSU correction
On Friday (23), the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, called on civil servants and state agents to participate constructively in correcting the irregularities in the current framework of the Single Salary Table (TSU). The appeal was made to a group of 50 civil servants and state agents who were...