The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday, warned the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, that he and his party have no moral justification to attack the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration headed by Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister, who spoke in Abuja on the achievements in the water sector, […]
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The best current pictures of zones of insecurity, areas of return, and motivation for return is given in a 1 November study by Joao Feijó of the OMR (Rural Observatory), based on extensive October interviews. He finds thousands of displaced people are returning home, “mainly motivated by factors of revulsion to the resettlement sites (related […]
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Mozambique: HIV Infections Still Rising
The number of adults infected by HIV has risen by more than 350,000 in six years, according to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of Health on 1 December. Data is from the 2021 Survey on Assessing the Impacts of HIV/AIDS (INSIDA). The Ministry proudly reported that HIV prevalence rate among adults aged between […]
Higher sea temperatures in the Mozambique Channel caused by the climate emergency made the 2019 cyclones Idai and Kenneth particularly devastating. They killed more than 1000 people in Mozambique, displaced 420,000 others, and reconstruction costs were estimated at $3.2 bn. More than three years later, support from donors and lenders has reached $1.2 bn, Public […]
The Cabo Delgado civil war continues, with insurgents moving south into mining areas, Chiure district, and down to the Lúrio River and again into Nampula province. There have been attacks near the two main roads. The Indian-owned Gemrock ruby mine on the border between Ancuabe and Moatize districts was attacked 20 October, with substantial damage […]
The ECOWAS Commission, through its Directorate of Political Affairs, will hold a special retreat for focal point Directorates working with the ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework (ECPF) from 7th – 9th of December, 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria. The retreat, which is financially supported by the Royal Danish Government, is meant among others, to increase the synergy […]
Ending war needs more than military force; End normalised corruption and give youth hope of a better future, say Catholic bishops With young people still joining the insurgents, “we must unite all our efforts to find ways of solving this disgrace, not depending solely on the use of military force,” says a pastoral letter published […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured the Nigerian electorate that Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines were not kept in the facilities recently attacked and burnt by political thugs. INEC also said other sensitive materials that would be used in conducting the 2023 general elections are secure and safe. This was made known […]
Mozambique’s main dams are at least half full and Cahora Bassa is 82% full, very good for this time of year, just before the rains. This comes from the daily Boletim Hidrológico Nacional of the Departamento de Gestão de Recursos Hídricos of the Ministry of Public Works, Housing, and Water. Excellent, detailed, important in the […]
TotalEnergies and France seem to be inching toward resuming work on the gas inside a protection zone run by Rwanda, while the war continues elsewhere in Cabo Delgado. TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne has said repeatedly he would not return until there is peace, but that seems increasingly unlikely, and he is under pressure to generate […]
With Chinese money, the Australian Triton Minerals will go ahead with its Ancuabe, Cabo Delgado, graphite mine, it announced on 1 December. In September Shandong Yulong Gold committed a further investment of $3.4 mn and visited and approved the project on 22 November. Shandong Yulong appears to be part held by state and provincial companies […]
Due to falling foreign aid and loans, government borrowed an additional $900 mn from local banks and bondholders, reported Bank of Mozambique (BdM) in its quarterly economic report (2 Dec). Government domestic borrowing is $4.3 bn, up 25% since December 2021, according to BdM. Domestic borrowing has doubled in three years – in December 2019 […]
The heaviest fighting continues in two places that will worry TotalEnergies. The map below shows insurgents have not been pushed far out of the two gas districts of Palma and Mocimboa da Praia, which TotalEnergies will want as its security zone. In Nangade district on the Rovuma River border with Tanzania, battles have effectively closed […]
An economist, Dr Owusu Adu Sarkodie, has proposed to the government to bring home the Heritage Fund and invest it locally rather than in a foreign country where the interest on the fund is nominal. According to him, the Heritage Fund is not earning any significant interest rate outside the country and would be of […]
There is damning evidence against 10 of the 19 people accused in the $2 bn secret debt trial, but no evidence against 9 lesser figures who had handled money but had no reason to know it was stolen, said Judge Efigenio Baptista in the first four days of delivering his verdict. Total bribes paid by […]
The Accra High Court, criminal division has acquitted and discharged a plumber, who was sentenced to 24 years imprisonment for allegedly robbing boss of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Commissioner of Police (COP) MaameYaaTiwaa Addo-Danquah at her residence in 2016. Emmanuel Darko, on October 17, 2017 was found guilty by the Accra Circuit […]
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has strongly cautioned personnel to desist from tendencies and behaviours that tend to tarnish the corporate image of the service. The warning comes as an officer in uniform was seen drunk in a viral video circulating on social media. The Director of Public Relations of the GNFS, Assistant Chief […]
Special adviser to the Edo State governor on media projects, Mr Crusoe Osagie, has said the data recently released by the federal government has validated the figures published by the commissioner for finance, budget, economic planning and development, Joseph Eboigbe, which stated that Edo only received N2.1 billion from the N28 billion that accrued to […]