The Mozambican government, through the National Directorate of State Assets, launched a new Platform for the Registration of Suppliers of Goods and Services to the State in Maputo on Thursday (25). This initiative aims to combat influence peddling, clientelism, undue intervention by business agents and other illegal practices in the country. In...
The public company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is complaining about the high costs of public lighting throughout the country, which amount to 20 million dollars a year, a supply that has no purchase subsidy. Lighting covers cities, large urban centers, towns and neighbourhoods in all municipal territories and beyond, with...
The prepaid energy sales system, also known as "Credelec", of the public company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) will be inoperable next Monday (29), starting at 9pm, the state-owned electricity company announced in a statement. The unavailability of the system, which will last until 10am the following day, April 30, is intended, according to EDM, to allow...
The Instituto Superior de Transportes e Comunicações (ISUTC) has announced the launch of ISUTC Online, an initiative that aims to democratize access to quality education by offering degrees in Engineering and Management through distance learning. In a statement released on Monday (22), the educational institution, created by Transcom, SA, in 1999, explains that...
The Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) collected almost 8.1 billion meticais last year as a result of the implementation of the program to seal alcoholic beverages and manufactured tobacco. According to the deputy director-general of Customs, Fernando Alage, who was speaking yesterday, Wednesday (24), during the launch of the Border Control and Monitoring Project through...
Yesterday (22) in Maputo, the Northern Integrated Development Agency (ADIN) selected three civil society organizations to develop and implement projects to prevent violent extremism in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula. These are ActionAid Mozambique, the Mecanismo de Apoio à Sociedade Civil Foundation (MASC) and the...
A group of 100 workers from the logistics company REEF blocked the main entrance to the camp and the mine area where Fura Mining's ruby washing plant is located, in the district of Montepuez, Cabo Delgado. At issue is a debt of 17 million meticais owed by the company...
The population of the Mudada neighborhood, in the Matutuíne district, in the southern province of Maputo, submitted a petition to the Assembly of the Republic (AR) on Thursday (18) against the Dugongo cement factory for allegedly not honoring its commitments to the resettled people. Inaugurated in 2021, Dugongo, a company with majority Chinese capital, is located in...
The city of Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado, has had its first poultry feed production plant since Tuesday (16), with an emphasis on broilers. This is an investment by the Lovemore Frangos e Rações group, valued at seven million meticais, which reduces the dependence of the city of Pemba on neighboring...
The US oil company, ExxonMobil, has assured the continuity of its natural gas projects in Area 4 of the Rovuma basin, in the north of the country, assuring that it is still "carefully" analyzing the dates for making the final investment decision. The assurance was given by Walter Kansteiner, ExxonMobil's vice-president for External Relations, while speaking to journalists...