Maputo — The executive director of the South African Company Fly Modern Ark (FMA), Theunis Crous, is the new general-director of the publicly-owned Mozambique Airlines (LAM). According to a Wednesday statement from LAM, the company’s board of directors has decided to remove João Carlos Pó Jorge from his position as general-director. Pó Jorge, who managed […]
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Maputo — Mozambique’s Central Office for the Fight Against Corruption (GCCC) has opened two investigations into possible criminal activities concerned with the management of Mozambique Airlines (LAM). According to Friday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Carta de Mocambique’, one of them dates back to January 2023, and concerns “the management of the fleet, notably the […]
Maputo — The Mozambican government is working with partners in order to mobilize financial resources to pay overdue allowances to 120 households who were victims of the collapse of the enormous rubbish dump at Hulene, on the outskirts of Maputo city, according to the Minister of Land and Environment, Ivete Maibasse. The disaster happened on […]
Maputo — According to local residents, cited by the Portuguese news agency Lusa, islamist terrorists killed at least four people in an attack on Saturday against the Magaia community, in Chiure district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. “They’ve been there since Saturday morning’, said a relative of one of the victims. “They […]
Maputo — The Mozambican Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has dismissed the complaint against the seven judges of the Constitutional Council raised by the country’s largest opposition party, Renamo, for lacking legal grounds. Renamo accused the judges of committing criminal offences in validating the results of the municipal elections held in October 2023, in which the […]
Maputo — The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) has “noted with great concern the emergence of another wave of threats against journalists dedicated to the independent coverage of the conflict in Cabo Delgado’. The most menacing of these threats came from the Cabo Delgado provincial governor, […]
The ongoing election law is forcing the CNE to announce the number of candidates that parties must submit before it knows how many people have been registered, according to the calendar it released today. Parliament (Assembleia da Republica) constituencies are provinces and provincial assembly constituencies are districts, and the number of seats depends of number […]
Maputo — The outgoing mayor of the northern Mozambican city of Nampula, Paulo Vahanle, has abandoned his threat that, because of the fraudulent nature of the municipal elections held on 11 October, he will not leave office. Speaking at a press conference in Nampula on Tuesday, Vahanle promised to hand over municipal power to the […]
Maputo — Mozambican President, Filipe Nyusi, has announced that the Government is mobilizing resources in order to activate an anti-kidnapping brigade in the country. Speaking in Maputo, on Saturday, at a ceremony marking Mozambican Heroes’ Day, the anniversary of the assassination of the founder and first President of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), Eduardo Mondlane, […]
President Paul Kagame and his Mozambican counterpart Filipe Nyusi on Thursday, January 25 held talks in Kigali. Their discussions centred around “ways to further strengthen the existing productive bilateral cooperation in various areas of mutual interest,” Village Urugwiro said on Friday morning. Rwanda and Mozambique cooperate in ways that include military operations in the Southern […]
Maputo — Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party on Thursday submitted a request for a special session of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, to amend the electoral legislation, so that the date for this year’s voter registration can be changed. The National Elections Commission (CNE) proposed that voter registration, ahead of the presidential, parliamentary […]
Maputo — The director of Maputo Central Hospital (HCM), Mouzinho Saide, has denied rumours that the hospital is facing a shortage of food and of insulin. According to Mouzinho, who was speaking to reporters, on the sidelines of the ceremony to hand over orthopaedic and traumatology instruments to HCM, “It’s not true that there is […]
Maputo — The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has dismissed the request by Mozambique’s largest opposition party, Renamo, to suspend the ruling from the Constitutional Council that validates and proclaims the results of the Municipal Elections held on 11 October. In a note issued on Tuesday, the PGR claims that Renamo’s request is unfounded, “due to […]
Maputo — A wave of disinformation about the causes of cholera has led to the murder of at least three community leaders and the destruction of 50 houses in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, according to a report in Wednesday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Carta de Mocambique’. There have been 14 incidents […]
Maputo — Anybody intending to run in the Mozambican presidential election scheduled for 9 October must submit their nomination papers to the Constitutional Council between 13 May and 10 June. This is one of the key deadlines in the election calendar drawn up by the National Elections Commission (CNE), and distributed to political parties at […]
Maputo — The Maputo Provincial Directorate of Education has submitted a criminal case to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) against four building contractors who received money in the context of Covid-19 pandemic and did not carry out the work contracted for, which was installing taps and associated facilities for hand washing. “As the contractors have […]
Maputo — Mozambique’s main political parties have called for the postponement of the start of voter registration ahead of this year’s presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections, since the date proposed by the National Elections Commission (CNE), 1 February, coincides with the peak of the rainy season. Disquiet at the idea of calling on voters to […]
Maputo — The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) declared on Monday that it is allowing immediate disbursement to Mozambique of 45.44 million Special Drawing Rights (SDRs – equivalent to 60.7 million US dollars), which can be used to support the Mozambican state budget. This follows completion of the Third Review under Mozambique’s […]