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Organisers of the Maputo International Fair (FACIM) missed their target for foreign participation as the number of countries that have confirmed participation at this year’s event was 50 percent lower than expected due to the effects of COVID-19 pandemic.
A South African court has ordered a stay of the planned extradition of jailed former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang pending the outcome of an application by civil society activists to have him sent to the United States where he also faces similar money laundering and embezzlement charges.
South Africa plans to extradite former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang to Maputo where he will face embezzlement charges following a 2018 secret government loans scandal, APA learnt here on Wednesday.
European Union (EU) foreign ministers have approved the launch of a military training mission to train and support Mozambique’s armed forces battling a jihadist insurgency in the country’s troubled Cabo Delgado region.
European Union officials have agreed to set up a military mission in Mozambique to assist the southern African country train its security forces in fighting Islamic State-linked insurgents in its Cabo Delgado province.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has agreed to deploy a force to contain disturbances by Islamic State-linked insurgents in northern Mozambique.
Close to 10,000 Mozambicans have been turned away after attempting to cross into neighbouring Tanzania to escape instability in northern Mozambique, the United Nations revealed on Tuesday.
At least 51 children have been abducted by armed groups in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province over the past year, according to a new report published by Save the Children on Wednesday.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said Thursday that it had agreed to work closely to address the festering terrorist insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province but remained mum on the nature of regional intervention being mooted.
Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders are meeting in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday to discuss a regional response to the volatile security situation in the mineral-rich north of the country.