A total of 328 contractors have abandoned works that had been awarded by the government in Nampula province, northern Mozambique, due to the alleged lack of disbursement of funds for the execution of the contracts. This is an unquantified number of works in the education and health sector - classrooms and health units - in various...
CTA vs CMondego: Building construction agreement was a "friends thing"
The current board of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA) says that the agreement between the union's previous board and Construtora Mondego (CMondego) for the construction of two buildings was interpersonal and not institutional. It says that there were even payments in meticais and foreign currency before the...
Maputo municipality sets 30-day deadline for licensing works without a building permit
Over the next 30 days, the Maputo City Council expects to license around 500 illegally built or irregular construction projects in all the municipal districts of the country's capital. To this end, CMCM launched yesterday (18) a campaign for the mass regularization of illegal or irregular construction work up to the fourth floor, with...
Concrete company on the Costa do Sol asks for embargo to be lifted
The Chinese-owned company that set up a concrete cement factory in a residential area in the Costa do Sol district of Maputo city has submitted a request to the Maputo City Judicial Court to annul the decision to embargo the project. On March 4, the 9th Section of that court provisionally embargoed...
Sale of cars and real estate for more than 250,000 meticais must be reported to GIFiM
Sales of cars and real estate worth more than 250,000 meticais must be reported to Mozambique's Financial Information Office (GIFiM), according to the institution's Director of Legal Services, Study and Cooperation, Paulo Munguambe. This measure aims to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The automobile...
PGR appeals to Administrative Court to prohibit construction of condominium in Mangal da Costa do Sol
The Public Prosecutor's Office (MP), through the Attorney General's Office (PGR) of Maputo City, has filed an action with the Administrative Court (TA) of Maputo City to request a declaration of nullity of the orders of the Municipal Council of the country's capital that granted the title of Right to Use and Benefit from Land (DUAT) to...
NGO denounces astronomical millionaire fraud in the Housing Development Fund
A public procurement process at the Housing Development Fund (FFH) caused a loss of 14 million US dollars for the state, the Center for Public Integrity (CIP) revealed today. In 2013, the state received a loan of 47 million US dollars from the Exim Bank of India for the construction of 1,200...
Head of State inaugurates 24 houses of the Nascer Project
On Friday, February 16, the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, inaugurated 24 new houses as part of the Renascer Project for young people in the Monapo district of Nampula province. This is an initiative funded by the Housing Development Fund (FFH) of the Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources...
Carlos Mesquita criticizes the proliferation of disorderly construction in Mozambique
The Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Carlos Mesquita, criticized the proliferation of disorderly construction in Mozambique, most of which does not include the provision of utilities such as water and energy. Speaking during the opening ceremony of the 1st Congress of Architecture in Mozambique, a two-day event...
Housing Development Fund plans to build 820 more houses across the country
The Housing Development Fund (FFH) plans to build more houses for people in need. In fact, consultants will be hired this semester to design another 820 projects in various parts of the country, as part of the "Housing Improvement" project. In a publication in the newspaper Notícias, the chairman of the HFF's Board of Directors, Armindo Munguambe, assured...