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 …
Read More »COVID-19: Mozambique records sharp increase in cases
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 …
Read More »Mozambique: at least 600 women and girls abducted by jihadists
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 …
Read More »Mozambique: more than two million at risk of hunger
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 …
Read More »Mozambique: four detained for burning an old man accused of witchcraft
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. …
Read More »Mozambique: sacked minister appointed envoy to Rwanda
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 …
Read More »Mozambique: president Nyusi appoints first female interior minister
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has appointed Arsenia Felicidade Felix Massingue as the country’s first female interior minister and Cristóvão Artur Chume as national defence minister. The previous ministers in charge of defence and interior security were both sacked this week. Mr Chume is a major-general noted for commanding the forces …
Read More »Mozambique: two arrested for forging Covid vaccine cards
Police in Mozambique say they have detained two health workers for their alleged involvement in the forgery, issuing and sale of Covid-19 vaccine cards. The two, a government general medical practitioner and an intern, had been assigned to the Bagamoyo health centre in the capital, Maputo. Police seized the forged …
Read More »Mozambique: villagers rescued after being abducted by Islamists
Southern African Development Community (SADC) troops rescued forty-seven people who had been kidnapped in northern Mozambique by Islamists. There was no confrontation between SADC troops and the Islamic State-linked militants, because the five hostage-takers fled when they realised the presence of the regional force, reports say. Read also: Cambridge to …
Read More »Mozambique: civil society groups decry maternal health negligence
Some 40 civil society groups in Mozambique have written a letter in which they denounce the mistreatment of pregnant women in health facilities. The groups rallied and demanded action against doctors whose work they say has resulted in maternal and child deaths. In a letter to the health minister, the …
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