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Mozambique Gemfields Ruby Auction Raises Record 72 Million Dollars

Mozambique Gemfields Ruby Auction Raises Record 72 Million Dollars

The London-based mining company Gemfields on Monday announced that last week’s auction in Singapore of rough rubies from its mine in the northern Mozambican district of Montepuez raised a company record of 71.8 million US dollars. Of the 86 parcels of rubies available at the auction, 82 were sold – fetching an average price of […]

Experts Alarmed at Rise of Mozambique Jihadi Terrorism

Experts Alarmed at Rise of Mozambique Jihadi Terrorism

On Friday, the U.S. embassy in Mozambique issued a security alert, warning all U.S. citizens to avoid visiting the Palma district in Cabo Delgado province, and urging those already there to “consider departing the area immediately.” The embassy issued the warning “in light of information pointing to the likelihood of imminent attacks on government and […]

35 Dead in Islamist Fighting in Coastal Mozambique Cabo Delgado

35 Dead in Islamist Fighting in Coastal Mozambique Cabo Delgado

Five people were killed last night in an attack on Namaluco, Maomia district, late last night (6 June). No more details are available. Seven people were killed and 164 houses and five vehicles burned late Monday night (4 June) in Naunde village, Macomia district, just 130 km north of Pemba on the coast road. Six […]

How Mozambique smugglers nurtured Jihadists

How Mozambique smugglers nurtured Jihadists

Attacks by young Islamist militants in northern Mozambique are fuelled by a mix of poverty and corruption, writes Joseph Hanlon. In the most recent attack, 10 people were decapitated with machetes in Palma district in the country’s northerly Cabo Delgado province. More than 300 people have been detained by the police and army since the […]

Suspected Al-Shabaab Islamists behead 10 villagers in Mozambique

Suspected Al-Shabaab Islamists behead 10 villagers in Mozambique

Ten people including children were beheaded in a village in northern Mozambique in a weekend attack blamed on suspected Islamists, local sources said on Tuesday. The attack occurred in Monjane village. Since October , the country has seen a number of attacks by suspected radical Islamists. One of the victims of the weekend attack was […]

Mozambique Internal Public Debt Set to Increase

Mozambique Internal Public Debt Set to Increase

The Government of Filipe Jacinto Nyusi plans to increase the Internal Public Debt during the 2018 fiscal year by at least 84.2 billion meticais to finance its State Budget which is expected to continue without support from the Cooperation Partners for the third consecutive year, V erdade ‘s Adérito Caldeira reports. The largest beneficiaries of […]

Madagascar Stun Mozambique in Cosafa Group A Opener

Madagascar Stun Mozambique in Cosafa Group A Opener

Mozambique coach Abel Xavier watched his former club Liverpool lose in Saturday’s UEFA Champions League final after two goalkeeping howlers and the next day saw a similar fate befall his side as they were beaten 2-1 by Madagascar in the opening game of this year’s Cosafa Cup at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane […]

Filipe Nyusi Urges Calm As Dialogue With Renamo Continues

Filipe Nyusi Urges Calm As Dialogue With Renamo Continues

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday appealed for calm in the current phase of the government’s dialogue with the main opposition party, the rebel movement Renamo, in order to secure a definitive peace. Speaking at a rally in the Siluvo locality, in Nhamatanda district, during his working visit to the central province of Sofala, Nyusi […]

President Filipe Nyusi Inaugurates Third Nacala Cement Factory

President Filipe Nyusi Inaugurates Third Nacala Cement Factory

Nacala (Mozambique), 25 May (AIM) – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Friday inaugurated the third cement factory built in the northern port city of Nacala. The factory, Cimentos de Maiaia, is 85 per cent owned by Chinese private interests, and 15 per cent by Mozambicans. The factory’s production target is 250,000 tonnes of cement a […]

Mozambique Severe Drought Affects Electricity Generation

Mozambique Severe Drought Affects Electricity Generation

The severe drought that has affected parts of Mozambique and the Southern Africa region in two last years has contributed to reducing electricity generation at the Cahora Bassa dam (HCB), on the Zambezi river, in the western Mozambican province of Tete. Nelson Beete, executive director of Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates […]

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