Browsing: Mozambique

Weather experts on Monday warned of a tropical storm that is building up in the Indian Ocean and could make landfall in Madagascar at the weekend and proceed towards the Mozambique Channel early next week.

More than 530,000 people have been displaced armed gangs waging attacks in Mozambique’s gas-rich Cabo Delgado region, the UN Refugee Agency said on Friday.

The World Bank has approved a US$100-million grant to support an urban renewal project that is set to transform the Mozambican capital Maputo.

Corruption has become a serious headache for the Mozambican government amid revelations that leakages from the system are on the rise and costing the fiscus millions of dollars.

Mozambique’s National Meteorological Institute (INAM) has warned of a heat wave on Tuesday in the provinces of Gaza, Maputo and Tete.

Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Wednesday warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in Mozambique unless urgent action is taken to address the needs of more than 400,000 people who have fled an armed insurgency in the country’s northern Cabo Delgado province.

The number of people displaced by the ongoing insurgency in northern Mozambique and the country’s central region has risen by 2,700 percent since the end of 2018, according to a report seen by APA on Tuesday.

The capital of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is receiving up to 1,000 people per day who are running away from an armed insurgency in parts of the region, a non-governmental organisation revealed on Friday.

The Mozambican government is losing revenue amounting to more than 1 billion meticais (US$13.6 million) annually to corrupt activities by public officials, according to reports monitored here on Wednesday.

The European Union has accepted Mozambique’s request for support to deal with an armed insurgency in the north of the country.