July 22, 2022
Mozambique: Bank of Mozambique Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged
The Bank of Mozambique on Thursday decided to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged. Read more »
Mozambique: Hidden Debts - Credit Suisse Obliged to Compensate Ematum Bondholders
The bank Credit Suisse has admitted that much of the money supposedly intended to create a Mozambican tuna fishing fleet was in fact diverted into bribes and kickbacks and has… Read more »
Mozambique: Elections Body Plans Monitoring and Management System
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) plans to set up a monitoring and management system, costed at about 81,000 US dollars, for electoral risks which could come from a… Read more »
July 11, 2022
Mozambique: Trade Unions Denounce Government's Transport Plans
The main Mozambican trade union federation, the OTM (Mozambican Workers' Organisation), has denounced the government's plans for passenger transport, in unusually strong language. Read more »
July 10, 2022
Mozambique: Dhlakama Family Threatens to Sue Sibindy
The family of Afonso Dhlakama, who led Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, from 1979 until his death from diabetes in 2018, is threatening to sue a minor opposition figure,… Read more »
Mozambique: Nyusi Calls for Redoubling of Solidarity
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi declared on Saturday that the Muslim celebration of Idul Ad'Ha should serve as a source of inspiration for the current crucial moment in the… Read more »
July 06, 2022
Mozambique: Senior Frelimo Official in Tete Charged With Embezzlement
The Mozambican Public Prosecutor's Office is charging the First Secretary of the ruling Frelimo Party in the western province of Tete, Goncalves Jemusse, of acts of corruption,… Read more »
July 05, 2022
Mozambique: Urban Transport Crisis Persists, Amid Doubts as to Viability of 'Passenger Subsidy'
Even after the government and operators of the minibuses, commonly known as "Chapas", which provide much of the passenger transport in Mozambican cities, claimed they had reached… Read more »
Mozambique: District Electon Chairpersons Take Office
The chairperson of the Maputo City Provincial Elections Commission, Ana Chemane, on Tuesday urged the chairpersons of the city's seven district elections commissions (CDEs) to… Read more »
Mozambique: Nyusi Asks China to Help Rebuild Main North-South Road
The Mozambican government has requested assistance from China for the rehabilitation of the country's main north-south highway (EN1). Read more »
Mozambique: PM Wants Better Supervision of Natural Gas Projects
The Mozambican Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, on Monday challenged the National Petroleum Institute (INP) to improve the inspection of the natural gas exploration and production… Read more »
July 04, 2022
Mozambique: Repatriation of Mozambicans From Malawi This Month
The voluntary repatriation of about 1,600 Mozambican families, from Nsanje in Malawi, where they fled from tropical cyclone Ana in January, will start this month. Read more »
Mozambique: Maputo-Kigali Direct Flights From August
The Rwandan national airline, RwandAir, will start operating direct flights between Maputo and Kigali, in August. Read more »
June 30, 2022
Mozambique: Nyusi Demands Scientific Responses for Local Problems
Mozambican President, Filipe Nyusi, on Tuesday challenged higher education institutions to produce scientific knowledge to solve the local problems that the country has been… Read more »
June 29, 2022
Mozambique: CNE Seeks Strategies for Elections in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) is looking for safe measures to conduct voter registration for next year's municipal elections in the northern province of Cabo… Read more »
Mozambique: CNE Trying to Secure Funds From Donors
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) is dependent on foreign donors, known tactfully as "cooperation partners" to produce the funding required to prepare the 2023… Read more »
Mozambique: Parliamentarians Want Prisons Moved Away From Central Maputo
Parliamentarians of the Commission for Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Legality (CACDHL) of the Mozambican Parliament (Assembly of the Republic), have called for moving… Read more »
Mozambique: Minister of Interior Demands Services Free From Corruption
The Mozambican Interior Minister, Arsénia Massingue, has demanded humanized, organized and quick provision of services in the National Immigration Service (SENAMI), free… Read more »
June 27, 2022
Mozambique: Commonwealth Supports Fight Against Terrorism
Mozambican Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane declared in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Saturday night, that the member countries of the Commonwealth are agreed on the need to make… Read more »
June 26, 2022
Mozambique: Nyusi Warns of 'Real Threat' to Country's Independence
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Saturday expressed his concern at the involvement of some of "our fellow countrymen" with the terrorist groups who have been attacking parts of… Read more »
June 23, 2022
Mozambique: U.S.$292 Million Needed for Elections
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) needs 18.7 billion meticais (about 292 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate) for voter registration and other… Read more »
June 16, 2022
Mozambique: Cne Proposes Voter Registration for First Quarter of 2023
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) has proposed that voter registration ahead of the municipal elections scheduled for 11 October 2023 should be held between January… Read more »
Mozambique: Minister Defends Maximising Benefits of the Sea
The Minister of the Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries, Lidia Cardoso, on 8 June called for maximising the benefits that the sea offers. Speaking in Maputo, during a seminar held as… Read more »
Mozambique: Justice Minister Promises Protection of People With Albinism
No crime against albinos will go unpunished in Mozambique, declared Justice Minister Helena Kida in Maputo on 13 June. Speaking at a ceremony to mark International Albinism… Read more »
Mozambique: Renamo Demands Elections for District Assemblies Must Go Ahead
Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has insisted that elections for district assemblies must go ahead in 2024, even though there is no clarity on what these assemblies will… Read more »