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A 40-year-old man has escaped death after being attacked by wandering lion in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, local media reported. The victim suffered serious injuries and is currently receiving medical care in a hospital. According to a local administrator, the lion that attacked the man had escaped from …

Mozambique’s Tax Authorities (AT) seized luxury vehicles, alcohol and around 20,000 mobile phones smuggled into the country. Addressing a Maputo press conference on Monday, the AT’s director of customs operations, Gimo Jona, said the phones were contained in 250 disguised boxes. They were seized for lack of import documents, false …

Authorities in Mozambique say over 14,000 HIV patients have abandoned antiretroviral therapy in the first three months of the year in the central province of Zambézia. Male patients form the largest part of those no longer taking the drugs, according to Dr Cheinaze Veríssimo – the provincial head of the …

A teenager in northern Mozambique who was presumed dead and whose funeral was held in November has turned up in her home village of Lindi, local media reported. The community is referring to Eurélia Manuel Benjamim as having been resurrected from the dead, but she says she had just gone …

Rwanda said it needs additional funding to keep its troops in northern Cabo Delgado region in Mozambique where they are fighting Islamist militants. Rwandan High Commissioner to Mozambique said they had asked the European Union for financial support for the troops to bring the situation in the region under control, …

Mozambique has imposed a partial ban on South African imports of cattle, goats, sheep, pigs and their meat and by-products following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the neighbouring country. The ban covers products from the South African provinces of North West, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. The three provinces reported …

The death toll from Cyclone Gombe, which hit Mozambique last week, has risen to 53, authorities in Nampula province said on Thursday. Cyclone Gombe has affected tens of thousands of people since making a landfall last week. The cyclone has destroyed houses, local health centre, schools and crop fields. Mossuril …

Mozambique on Monday recorded its first day of zero Covid-19 infections since the outbreak of the disease in the country in March 2020. The country also recorded zero Covid deaths and zero hospitalisation in 24 hours throughout the country. “Some 18 people remain hospitalized across the country,” the health ministry …

The Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday appointed Adriano Afonso Maleiane as the new prime minister, shortly after sacking six ministers as part of a cabinet reshuffle. Adriano Afonso Maleiane now replaces former Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário. The president also named Ernesto Max Tonela as the Minister of …

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has sacked six government ministers, including the finance minister, in what we call a major reshuffle. Besides the Minister of Finance, President Nyusi also sacked the Ministers of Mineral Resources and Energy, Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries and Public Works, Housing and Water. The reasons for …