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Mozambique: Buddhist charity helps over 2,000 malnourished children since 2021

The Buddhist charity Tzu Chi has helped over 2,000 malnourished children in the province of Sofala, central Mozambique, since 2021, the organisation said on Monday. In a statement, the charity said it assisted the children as part of an ongoing...

Mozambican airline requires exclusivity agreement from new manager

Mozambican airline requires exclusivity agreement from new manager

An extraordinary meeting was convened on Sunday, June 29, 2025, during which the board reaffirmed that the duties of the president of the LAM management committee must be performed exclusively, ensuring full dedication to the company’s...

Mozambique-based bar attendant arrested with illicit drugs in Nigeria + Video

Mozambique-based bar attendant arrested with illicit drugs in Nigeria + Video

At the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted a Maputo, Mozambique-based bar attendant Ezenwaka Chibuzor Emmanuel, with illicit drugs. According to available...

Mozambique Grants Zambia Land for Dry Port in Nacala

Mozambique Grants Zambia Land for Dry Port in Nacala Transport and Logistics Minister Frank Tayali says a dry port has been bequeathed to Zambia by the Government of Mozambique. The development was revealed by Mozambique’s Minister of Transport...

Experts want drug users spared jail term and cannabis legalised

Experts want drug users spared jail term and cannabis legalised

A new push to spare drug users prison term and instead provide them with the necessary health support is gaining ground. The approach – which also crusades for the legalisation of marijuana (cannabis) through policy and regulation – is a...

Nontsetselo Magongo: Meet the ninth wife who accompanied King Mswati III to Ghana

Nontsetselo Magongo: Meet the ninth wife who accompanied King Mswati III to Ghana

Nontsetselo Magongo was the only wife who accompanied King Mswati III of Eswatini during his recent state visit to Ghana to discuss pressing issues on the African continent. Born in 1985, Magongo is 40 years old and is the king’s ninth wife. They...

Liu Jianchao meets ministers from Mozambique and Botswana

Liu Jianchao meets ministers from Mozambique and Botswana

Liu Jianchao, Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee (IDCPC), met on June 13 with Maria Manuela dos Santos Lucas, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique, and Phenyo...

NDLEA arrests ex-international football player, 4 others over 22.6kg cocaine at Lagos airport

NDLEA arrests ex-international football player, 4 others over 22.6kg cocaine at Lagos airport

By OLA MODUPE, Abuja- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an ex-international football player Segun George Hunkarin along with his businessman partner Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu over attempt to smuggle a...

China and Mozambique celebrate 50th anniversary

China and Mozambique celebrate 50th anniversary

Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged messages with his Mozambican counterpart Daniel Francisco Chapo on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of their establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations. On June 25, 1975, Mozambique declared its...

NDLEA arrests ex-international footballer for ‘cocaine smuggling’ at Lagos airport

NDLEA arrests ex-international footballer for ‘cocaine smuggling’ at Lagos airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested Segun George Hunkarin, a former international footballer, alongside his business partner Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu over an attempt to smuggle cocaine into Nigeria through...

Mozambican operator Tmcel warns of slow and restricted Internet.

Mozambican operator Tmcel warns of slow and restricted Internet.

“Tmcel – Moçambique Telecom S.A announces there is currently a slowdown in mobile Internet access and a restriction on fixed Internet access,” reads a statement from the operator released today. Tmcel, which is state-owned by the Mozambican...

Vision of hope: Mozambican student builds smart glasses to guide the blind — right from his dining room

Vision of hope: Mozambican student builds smart glasses to guide the blind — right from his dining room

MAPUTO, June 29 — When Armando Ernesto Chau straps on the futuristic smart glasses that a young Mozambican robotics student is developing in the family dining room, he has a vision of a life less confined to his modest home. Chau is the prototype...

Mozambique probes claims of army atrocities near TotalEnergies site

Mozambique probes claims of army atrocities near TotalEnergies site

Mozambique's human rights commission said on Friday it has opened an investigation into media reports of deadly abuses by government soldiers against villagers fleeing jihadist unrest near a major TotalEnergies gas plant. Politico reported in...

Learn nothing, remember nothing

Learn nothing, remember nothing

MORE often, reports have emerged of bloated lists of government officials, parliamentarians, senators and even councillors making foreign trips. MORE often, reports have emerged of bloated lists of government officials, parliamentarians, senators...

Law enforcement agencies inspecting Kosi Bay border gate, targeting undocumented foreign nationals

Law enforcement agencies inspecting Kosi Bay border gate, targeting undocumented foreign nationals

DURBAN - Various law enforcement agencies are inspecting the Kosi Bay border gate and its surroundings to tackle crime and clamp down on undocumented foreign nationals. This is to curb criminal elements at the border gates between South Africa,...

Mozambique's struggle with jihadist rebels

Mozambique's struggle with jihadist rebels

A group of women were wading through the blue water of the Indian Ocean towards Pemba, capital of Mozambique’s northeastern province of Cabo Delgado. They balanced buckets of fish on their heads, to sell at market in the city’s oldest...

Millions of people dead. On purpose.

Millions of people dead. On purpose.

• “USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years“ More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to...

Minister Barbara Creecy outlines South Africa’s rail, logistics and transport recovery plan

Minister Barbara Creecy outlines South Africa’s rail, logistics and transport recovery plan

South Africa’s Minister of Transport, Barbara Creecy, says fixing the country’s transport and logistics infrastructure is one of government’s biggest priorities, with both urgent short-term interventions and long-term reforms on the table. Creecy...

MOZAMBIQUE: Over 120 children abducted by jihadists in Cabo Delgado

Asurge in abductions by jihadist fighters in Mozambique’s troubled Cabo Delgado region has led to the kidnapping of at least 120 children in recent days, according to Human Rights Watch. The organization issued a warning Tuesday, highlighting an...

President lifts Tanzania globally – PM

DODOMA: PRIME Minister Kassim Majaliwa has lauded President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan’s leadership for setting Tanzania on a new path of inclusive development, diplomacy and national cohesion through the implementation of the 4Rs philosophy. In his...

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