Women’s Rights ‘Underrated, Ignored, Trampled Upon’
Africa’s first women’s rights legal framework has the potential to benefit millions of women when governments not only ratify but also ensure its domestication in national laws, with accompanying resources for its implementation. In Africa, women’s rights have been underrated, ignored and trampled upon. The place of the African woman is often regarded as that […]
Renamo Threatens to Impose Its Will By Force
Mozambique’s former rebel movement Renamo has threatened to set up its own armed forces and police to impose what it calls “provincial municipalities” in the north and centre of the country. The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, in late April voted against a Renamo bill on provincial municipalities, on the grounds that many […]
Mozambican Claims To Be President Mugabe’s Son
A MOZAMBICAN national accused of illegally entering Zimbabwe through South Africa stunned a Harare magistrate’s court last week when he said he came into the country to look for President Robert Mugabe whom he claimed to be his biological father. Gabriel Ricardo was arrested on May 30 this year after entering the country through the […]
Mozambique Taking Measures Against Pharmaceutical Theft
The Mozambican Ministry of Health is to cut down the number of warehouses storing medicines in an effort to reduce the amount of pharmaceuticals that are stolen. Speaking in the central city of Beira on Saturday, Health Minister Nazira Abdula said a plan to end the theft of medicines has been approved, but first the […]
Kuwaiti Group Promises Mozambique Massive Sugar Cane Plantation
The Kuwaiti group, the Al-Badel International Development Company, has guaranteed that, within the next three months, it will launch a gigantic project to grow sugar cane in Massingir district, in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza. The sugar cane grown in Massingir is intended essentially for the production of bio-ethanol, a supposedly clean source of […]
Mozambique and Zambia Forced Sex Camps – Child Marriage
Casablanca — Girls as young as eight in Mozambique and Zambia are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage. These sexual initiations begin once menstruation starts and sometimes […]
Dar es Salaam, Maputo Relax Visa Protocol
Tanzanians wishing to visit Mozambique for holiday and business have been exempted from applying for visa for stays of up to 90 days – the same applying to citizens of Mozambique.This has been made possible following the signing, at the State House, of an amendment to the agreement between the governments of Tanzania and Mozambique […]
South Africa Deports Hundreds of Mozambicans
The official death toll is seven with South Africans authorities claiming the murder of one Mozambican man was a case of criminality and not xenophobia-related. Some of the returned Mozambicans said on Saturday that they were arrested and taken to a detention centre when they were found in South Africa without proper documents. In mid-May, […]
Record ivory, rhino horn cache seized: Mozambique
Police in Mozambique have seized nearly 1.3 tonnes of ivory and rhino horns, obtained from the illegal slaughter of 65 rhinos and 170 elephants, from a house belonging to a Chinese national. Mozambique is a known source of poachers willing to cross the porous border to South Africa to fill orders for rhino horn from […]
Mediators Say Talks Have Failed – Dhlakama & Nyusi Must Meet
Disgusted mediators yesterday said the Renamo-government talks have failed. Father Filipe Couto, speaking for all the mediators after the 104th session Monday, said “we lack the courage to admit that we do not have the energy to go forward and there is no chance to solve the problems. “In this case, only two people have […]
