45 people have died in the storms and floods which have hit parts of northern Mozambique since the start of the current rainy season in October. Speaking at a Maputo press conference on 5 February,...
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US$374 million for fight against AIDS, TB and malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on 17 June announced that US$374 million will be disbursed to fight these diseases in Mozambique. The Global Fund, the Ministry of Health, the...
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HCB to protect pylons against floods
Hidroeletrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river, has announced that it will spend 480 million meticais (US$14 million) on protecting HCB...
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Japan donates 10,000 tonnes of rice
The Mozambican and Japanese governments signed an agreement in Maputo on 19 March under which Japan will donate 10,000 tonnes of rice, valued at US$6.2 million. The rice is commercial food aid. The...
Outbreak of dengue fever in Nampula
The Health Ministry on 16 March confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever in the northern province of Nampula. Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, is a disease caused by the dengue virus which...
Moody’s expects floods to cut growth
The international ratings agency Moody’s on 9 February stated that the heavy rains and flooding that have hit the centre and north of Mozambique are likely to cut between 0.2 and 0.5 per cent from...
President Nyusi meets Cholera Emergency Group
President Filipe Nyusi on 19 February met with the Emergency Group on Cholera, which briefed him on the current state of the cholera outbreaks in Tete, Nampula and Niassa provinces. Among the group...
Inhambane declared free of land mines
Mozambique’s National Demining Institute (IND) on 6 November formally concluded mine clearance in the southern province of Inhambane. Over the past 16 years, 6.5 million square metres in the province...
Food fortification programme expanded
The Mozambican government is expanding the national food fortification programme in line with its commitment to reducing malnutrition. On 2 May the Ministry of Industry and Trade delivered equipment...
Incomati flood laps at edges of EN1
The flood surge down the Incomati River in southern Mozambique on 9 March reached Manhica district, about 80 kilometres north of Maputo, and was lapping at the edges of the country’s main north-south...
Mozambique could be free of land mines this year
Mozambique could be free of anti-personnel land mines by the end of this year, according to the head of operations of the National Demining Institute (IND), Antonio Martins. Speaking at a Maputo...
Flooding displaces hundreds in Zambezia
Heavy rains in the central province of Zambezia have forced 110 families to leave their homes in the districts of Mocuba and Maganja da Costa. According to Maria Luciano, the Zambezia provincial...
New programme to eliminate severe hunger
The Mozambican government and the European Union on 7 August launched a programme on accelerating progress towards achieving the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are the set...
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Further funds pledged for demining
The Australian government is to provide, via the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), $3 million to support demining programmes under way in Mozambique. This financial aid will be channelled...
Plan to cut chronic malnutrition
The Mozambican government has set itself the ambitious task of reducing the rate of chronic malnutrition (stunting) among children under the age of five from the current figure of 44 per cent to 20...
Flooding cuts north-south highway
Flood waters of the Incomati River swept across Mozambique’s main north-south highway on 21 January, cutting Maputo off from the north and centre of the country for three days. The Incomati was...
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More Japanese food aid promised
The Japanese government is to provide Mozambique with rice valued at $7.1 million under an agreement signed in Maputo on 10 January by Mozambican Deputy Foreign Minister Eduardo Koloma and Japanese...
Mozambique must increase agricultural efficiency
For Mozambique to become more competitive, it is fundamental that the country should invest in improving the efficiency of its agricultural production, according to the National Director of...
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Rwandan refugees refuse to return home
According to the director of Mozambique’s National Institute of Support to Refugees, Marcos Namashulua, there have been no formal requests for repatriation from Rwandan refugees. Mozambique hosts...
Mozambique: Food security must be improved
Deputy Minister of Agriculture Antonio Limbau said in Maputo on 10 March that the country's food and nutritional security must be "deeply improved". Speaking at the launch of a new agricultural and...