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At least five people have died and many others injured after heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, thunderstorms and lightning left a trail of destruction in Mozambique’s southern Gaza province, local media reports. The spokesperson of Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in the area, Bonifacio Cardoso …

A Ugandan court has ordered the police to release Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, a prominent writer arrested last week for criticizing President Yoweri Museveni and his son Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba on social media. Mr Rukirabashaija’s lawyer said he had not yet been released but he expected the authorities to comply with the …

The Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi and his wife have tested positive for covid-19 and are isolating, the president’s office has announced on Monday. A statement from the presidency said Mr Nyusi and his wife had decided to isolate in accordance with health guidelines after testing positive, even though they were …

Islamist militants are blamed of beheading a church leader in the Macomia district of the gas-rich northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, local media reported. Last Wednesday, a resident of Nova Zambézia village went to the district police command, carrying a bag that contained a human head belonging to her …

The Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, has urged people to comply with preventive measures and get vaccinated in order to curb the spread of the new coronavirus variant. His declaration comes amid a rise in recent days of the number of daily infections. “The situation is not good. The day before …

Health officials in Mozambique have announced that the country is seeing a sharp increase in coronavirus-related cases after months when figures were either declining or stabilized. Authorities said over 1,000 cases have been recorded since Friday. The country’s health ministry has launched a program of mobile vaccination units to try …

At least 600 women and girls have been abducted and enslaved in the last three years by militants in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Accord to the report by the rights group, the IS-linked militant group, known as Al Sunnah wa …

Government in Mozambique says more than two million people in the country are at risk of acute hunger due to the violence caused by the insurgency and recurrent natural events. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme had earlier warned of a rise in acute food …

Four people have been charged with lynching and burning to death an elderly man accused of being a sorcerer, in Zavala in southern Inhambane province in Mozambique, local media reported. The tragedy occurred after a traditional doctor accused the 73-year-old man of being behind the murder of two young men. …

The Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has appointed Amade Miquidade, an interior minister recently sacked as the country’s high commissioner to Rwanda. Amade Miquidade was dismissed from office last week and was replaced by the country’s first woman interior minister, Arsenia Massingue, two days later. Before his dismissal, he was one …