Although the current cholera outbreaks have affected all provinces, with the exception of Gaza, in the south, the situation cannot be described as a disaster ...
19 January, 2009
Solidarity with Zimbabwean cholera victims
The Mozambican government has delivered health and water equipment worth over $200,000 to Zimbabwe, as a gesture of solidarity in the face of the cholera epidemic and the dramatic collapse of the health service.
19 January, 2009
Constitutional Council validates election results
Mozambique’s Constitutional Council on 16 January validated and proclaimed the results of the local elections held on 19 November in the country’s 43 municipalities.
19 January, 2009
Renamo “will not respect municipal bodies”
Renamo announced on 16 January that it would not cooperate with the municipal authorities formed as a result of the 19 November local elections.
19 January, 2009
Frelimo celebrates
The huge victory of Frelimo in the municipal elections “is the unequivocal demonstration that this is the party of the people, a party committed to the well-being of municipal citizens”, declared the mayor-elect of Maputo, David Simango, on 17 January.
19 January, 2009
Flooding threatens islanders
Despite repeated warnings during the Zambezi valley floods of 2007 and 2008, some people have returned to live in the most dangerous and flood-prone parts of the valley – the islands in the middle of the river.
19 January, 2009
Demining to continue until 2014
Newly identified areas containing landmines has postponed the date for clearing the country until 2014.
19 January, 2009
Todinho shot dead by police
The Mozambican police have announced the death of Luis de Jesus Tomas “Todinho”, one of the three assassins who escaped from the cells of the Maputo City Police Command on 7 December.
19 January, 2009
New district attorneys sworn in
Twenty six new district attorneys took office on 15 January at a ceremony in Maputo, as part of the efforts to strengthen the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
19 January, 2009
Maputo Council plans to ban plastic bags
Maputo Municipal Council plans in the near future to ban the production and use of plastic bags in the city, according to the City Councillor for Health, Joao Schwalbach.
13 May, 2019
Anadarko reaches agreement with JERA and CPC
The Anadarko Petroleum Corporation on Monday announced that the Mozambique LNG1 Company, owned by Anadarko and its partners in exploiting the natural gas in Area One of the Rovuma Basin, off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA)
13 May, 2019
Cyclone Idai wiped out over 80,000 hectares of crops
A complete assessment of the impact of cyclone Idai on Mozambican agriculture shows that it devastated 813,000 hectares of crops in the 71 districts affected by the cyclone, according to Agriculture Minister Higino de Marrule.
10 May, 2019
More than a quarter of a million new electricity connections
New connections to the national electricity grid benefitted 257,490 households in 2018, according to the chairperson of Mozambique’s publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, Aly Sicola.
19 January, 2009
