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As BBC News reported, footballers who play for clubs in Mozambique’s top football league have been allowed to return to training. But the national championship, known as Mocambola, is not being allowed to resume yet. It was suspended in early February because of a spike in coronavirus cases. President Filipe …

Mozambique’s newly appointed head of the military, Eugénio Ussene Mussa, died on Monday after contracting Covid-19. He died while undergoing treatment at Mozambique’s biggest health facility, the Maputo Central Hospital. It is less than a month after he took office, as he was sworn in as chief of the general …

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced Thursday that in order to curb the coronavirus pandemic, the southern African nation will go under night curfews from Friday following. A first curfew in Mozambique since the civil war ended in 1992. The curfew will run from 5th February until 7th March. The curfew …

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has offered amnesty to citizens who joined the Islamist insurgency in the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado. President Nyusi promised that there will be no retaliation against those who surrender and return to their families. He made the pledge on Wednesday as the country paid …

In January, Mozambique recorded 210 deaths from Covid-19. According to the health ministry, it is its worst month since the pandemic started. The number is more than half of the 367 deaths recorded from the disease. The southern Africa country also confirmed 20,012 new cases in January, about a half …