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Parts of Mozambique were shaken on Tuesday night by a moderate earthquake that measured 4.4 on the Richter scale hit, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Tropical cyclone Gombe has claimed 12 lives in Mozambique since it hitting the shores of the southern African country at the end of last week, the National Institute for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction (INGD) announced on Sunday.
Another tropical storm is headed Mozambique’s way and is expected to make landfall on Friday, according to the National Institute of Meteorology (INAM).
President Filipe Nyusi has dismissed Carlos Agostinho do Rosario as Mozambique’s prime minister and replaced him with former finance minister Adriano Afonso Maleiane.
President Filipe Nyusi has dismissed Mozambique’s finance minister and five other ministers, his office announced in a short statement late Wednesday.
Former Mozambican president Armando Guebuza denied any wrongdoing when he testified on Thursday in the corruption trial of his son and other officials accused of illegally benefitting from a secret loan borrowed by his government in 2014.
Aid workers have warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Mozambique amid fears that the annual tropical storm cycle could fuel an already dire situation caused by a four-year-old armed insurgency.
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) has directed the continental body’s Ethiopia-based secretariat to provided military equipment to Mozambican forces who are battling an insurgency in the north of the country.
The US has launched a joint military training exercise with Mozambique to build the southern African country’s capacity to contain a four-year-old insurgency by Islamic State-linked militants, Washington’s top envoy in Maputo said late Thursday.
Mozambican forces have killed a Tanzanian national believed to be one of the leaders of insurgents causing mayhem in the northern Cabo Delgado province.