Mozambique
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, the director…
Mozambique
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 US-based charity World…
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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 transmission lines from the effects…
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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 money raised by selling…
Mozambique
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 is carried by…
Mozambique
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 its…
Mozambique
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 were the Ministers of…
Mozambique
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 has been cleared of land mines, and…
Mozambique
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 to two food processing factories in Beira. Vitamin A…
Mozambique
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 highway. Water was on…