June 26
Mozambique: UK & US Subsidies Take Electric Car Battery Jobs Away From Mozambique
Workers in Vidalia, Louisiana, USA began producing anodes for lithium batteries for electric cars in February, using graphite from Balama, Cabo Delgado, mined by Australian company… Read more »
June 23
Mozambique: A High Risk Strategy
The ENDE ends with a set of risks. One is that "the risk of poor diversification of the economy (industrialisation, production, productivity, technology and innovation) can result… Read more »
Mozambique: Praising Health and Smashing Education
Improvements in health are notes by ENDE, while education is heavily criticised. Read more »
Mozambique: Economic Diversification is Essential But is Not Happening, Says ENDE
GDP has been growing at 7% per year for two decades, yet poverty increases. Changing this requires "economic diversification", which is not happening, admits ENDE. In 2022, 75% of… Read more »
Mozambique: Government Admits Huge Rise in Poverty - Mozambicans Who Are Poor Jumped From 46% to 65% in a Decade
The 20-year-development plan approved by the Council of Ministers Tuesday (17 June) admits the past decade has been a disaster. "Lower than expected economic growth resulted in… Read more »
June 10
Mozambique: CNE Approves Fraudulent Registration of 878,868 Non-existent Voters
The CNE today announced total registration figures and admitted that they include 878,868 registered voters that the National Statistics Institute (INE) says cannot exist. That… Read more »
June 09
Mozambique: Calendar Changes Fall; All Candidates To Be Submitted By Monday
The main purpose of the 30 April changes was to give candidates an extra 15 days to submit documents - 10,000 notarised signatures for presidential candidates and six documents for… Read more »
Mozambique: Nyusi's Electoral Law Veto Ensures Frelimo Victory on 9 October
At the last minute on 30 May, President Filipe Nyusi vetoed revisions to the electoral law agreed by consensus by parliament a month earlier. The veto ensures Frelimo victory in… Read more »
June 04
Mozambique: Will They Rubber Stamp a Huge Crime? STAE Asks CNE to Approve Registration of 1.2 mn Voters Who Do Not Exist
STAE has submitted to CNE for approval this week the final list 17.2 mn registered voters. But 1.2 mn of them cannot exist and must be false. Will the CNE approve? Read more »
May 30
Mozambique: Electoral Laws Remain With Wrong Calendar
President Filipe Nyusi has not yet promulgated the amendments to the electoral legislation that were passed by parliament a month ago, on 30 April. Thus the CNE is insisting on the… Read more »
Mozambique: CNE Owes $54mn to Suppliers, Who Refuse Equipment for 9 Oct
Suppliers of election materials have stopped providing services because of accumulated debts, delaying the organization of the general elections scheduled for 9 October, National… Read more »
May 20
Mozambique: Registration Interrupted in Quissanga Because of Insurgent Threats
Voter registration has not finished in Quissanga district, Cabo Delgado. On 14 May, the registration brigades in the Mahate administrative post (Indigue, Namange, Nacoba and… Read more »
Mozambique: Everyone Knows Calendar is Wrong, But CC and CNE Refuse to Admit it
The CNE and CC are giving parties the wrong dates to submit candidates for the 9 October elections. The law approved by parliament three weeks ago, on 30 April, has still not been… Read more »
May 17
Mozambique: Gaza and Inhambane Ghosts Will Have 7 Seats in Parliament
Ghosts can register and vote without being seen and Gaza ghosts will have 6 seats in parliament and Inhambane ghosts 1 seat. But candidates for parliament must be real people who… Read more »
May 14
Mozambique: Insurgent Food Raid on Macomia Was Big and Well Organised
The insurgent raid on Macomia town Friday morning 10 May was the largest and best organised since the insurgents took the coastal town of Mucojo, 40km east of Macomia town, on 10… Read more »
May 12
Mozambique: Who Profits From the Climate Emergency?
"Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5ºC above preindustrial levels this century", compared to the agreed… Read more »
Mozambique: What About The Gas?
Mozambique's huge off-shore gas field is controlled by two consortia. Area 1 nearest the coast is led by the French TotalEnergies and area 4 further off-shore by the US ExxonMobil,… Read more »
Mozambique: Big Rise in Insurgent Activity in Past Month
A major insurgent attack on Macomia town at 05.00 Friday morning (10 May) underlined the increase in insurgent activity since the end of Ramadan a month ago. An estimated 100… Read more »
May 10
Mozambique: Frelimo Not Returning Voter Cards Collected Two Weeks Ago in Alto Molócuè
Frelimo political leaderships in many places have been collecting voters' cards, which supposedly belong to voters. In the municipality of Alto Molócuè, and in five villages in… Read more »
Mozambique: Assembly Candidates Must Be Submitted by 10 June; Presidential Deadline Extended to 25 June
43 parties, coalitions and citizens' lists have registered with the National Elections Commission (CNE) for the 9 October election, the CNE said today in a press conference. The… Read more »
May 02
Mozambique: CNE Admits Huge Fake Registration - More Than Half a Million Ghosts Can Vote in October
There are 587,941 more registered voters than there are voting age adults in Mozambique, the National Elections Commission admitted this morning. And it stressed that the figure is… Read more »
April 30
Mozambique: In Brief
Voter rolls on display until 3 May: The official period in which voters can consult the voter rolls displayed at the voter registration posts where they voters registered, in order… Read more »
Mozambique: Registration in Quissanga Begins on Wednesday
The training of brigade members for voter registration in the town of Quissanga ended on Monday (29 April) in Pemba, Cabo Delgado. Registration in Quissanga is scheduled to start… Read more »
Mozambique: STAE Told to Register Children in Nyamayabue
The number of potential voters seeking to register Nyamayabue, Mutarara, Tete has jumped. In the first fortnight of April, the Nyamayabue municipal area saw only 2 and 3 people… Read more »
Mozambique: Zimbabweans and Malawians Registering?
Zanu and the MCP may be mobilizing Zimbabweans and Malawians to register as Mozambican voters. The people benefit because their voters card serves as an ID document and they can go… Read more »