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More than 1,000 Mozambicans are thought to have died in
#CycloneIdai
, President Filipe Nyusi has just said, in comments carried on Radio Moçambique.
"The Pungue and Buzi rivers have burst their banks, and from the air, many bodies can be seen floating," he said.
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Mozambican political activist Dário Camal could be sanctioned by the United States of America for his role as an observer in illegal elections organised by Russia in occupied Ukrainian territories.
Read the full story ⤵️
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Total pulled all its staff out of the Mozambique LNG project today, leaving the security of the mothballed project entirely in the hands of Mozambique’s defence and security forces
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Around 170 people who attempted to flee the Hotel Amarula in Palma, Cabo Delgado on Friday afternoon fell into an ambush by Islamist insurgents — with at least seven killed but likely many more
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Graça Machel has written to Credit Suisse urging it absolve Mozambique of the responsibility to repay the 'hidden debts'
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President Nyusi met Afonso Dhlakama, and Renamo fighters, in Gorongosa today. Nyusi said he and Dhlakama discussed 'Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration' of Renamo's forces.
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BREAKING: Filipe Nyusi and Afonso Dhlakama met today in Gorongosa, to discuss peace in Mozambique
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The port of Mocímboa da Praia today received its first commercial cargo ship since it fell to insurgents in 2020.
Port concessionaire CP Porto has rehab-d the jetty which today received a ship from Pemba, in the presence of TotalEnergies country head, & the provincial governor.
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Yes, this was our mistake. Thank you for pointing it out. The article has been amended. The Joint Task Force is purely Mozambican.
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Private military companies have joined the fight against insurgents in Cabo Delgado, though the basis for their involvement remains unclear
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Rwandan and Mozambican troops retook the strategically and symbolically significant town of Mocímboa da Praia, on the anniversary of its fall to Islamist insurgents
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A Rwandan company has won an $800,000 contract to upgrade a resettlement village for people forced to move by the Mozambique LNG project in Cabo Delgado
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Total has suspended all construction work at its LNG project on the Afungi peninsula in Cabo Delgado following a spate of violent incidents close to the site
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Downtown Maputo is in turmoil following a clash between police and demonstrators participating in a march organised by opposition party Renamo.
Police, including agents in plain clothes, fired rifles into the air to disperse crowds.
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Palma town is under attack from suspected insurgents, according to multiple sources who contacted Zitamar News in the last hour
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Filipe Nyusi has won Mozambique's Presidential election with 73% of the vote, election commission CNE has just announced. On a turnout of 50.74%, Renamo's Ossufo Momade came second with 21.88%, MDM's Daviz Simango third with 4.38%, and Mario Albino of AMUSI got 0.73%.
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The holding company of Rwanda’s ruling party has opened a private security company in Mozambique, to add to a growing list of commercial interests in the province of Cabo Delgado
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FREE TO READ
Insurgents based in Mozambique conducted a major attack on the Tanzanian town of Kitaya on Wednesday night
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South African private military contractor DAG is due to pull out of Cabo Delgado next month, with responsibility for aerial support being taken over by the Mozambican military
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Rwandan president Paul Kagame will visit Cabo Delgado today, being received by his Mozambican counterpart Filipe Nyusi.
More:
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President Nyusi will meet with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the city of Chimoio today, accompanied by defence minister Jaime Neto. They will discuss bilateral cooperation and security in the region, a note from the Mozambican Presidency said.
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French energy company TotalEnergies aims to restart work on its project to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility in Cabo Delgado province by the end of the year, chief executive Patrick Pouyanné said while presenting to analysts today.
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Civilians in some conflict-hit parts of Cabo Delgado are reporting they feel safer since foreign troops joined the counter-insurgency effort
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Part of a Chinese donation of military equipment to the African Union will be delivered straight to the SADC mission in northern Mozambique later this year
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Norwegian fertiliser giant Yara has abandoned plans to develop a plant in Cabo Delgado — raising questions over the viability of the government's hope that domestic gas projects would drive economic development in the troubled province
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Only 6% of Mozambican households can be considered ready for a full lockdown, according to UNU-WIDER economists
Republished from
@TC_Africa
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Mozambique yesterday approved visa-free travel for tourists coming from 28 countries.
Full list on our Telegram Channel:
or on government website:
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SIMO, majority owned by the Bank of Mozambique, has admitted that its failure to pay licencing fees has caused the failure of almost all ATMs and card payment points in the country
SIMO has called a press conference for 10am tomorrow (Sunday) to update on the situation
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Mariano Nhongo, the leader of the hardline Renamo Military Junta group, was killed by Mozambique’s Defence and Security Forces this morning in Cheringoma, Sofala, police chief Bernardino Rafael has confirmed.
More details to follow…
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Insurgents in Cabo Delgado province moved south throughout January, recapturing the town of Mucojo, inforcing Sharia and carrying out increasingly aggressive attacks
Read the full story by Tom Gould below ⬇️
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💥 Suspected insurgents have attacked the Gemrock ruby mining project near Montepuez in Cabo Delgado.
No deaths have been reported so far, but contact with some employees may have been lost. The nearby Gemfields-owned mine is preparing to evacuate.
📸from
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Suspected insurgents launched multiple attacks on the Cabo Delgado district of Macomia on Thursday morning, simultaneously attacking the town of Macomia and the villages of Chai and Litamanda
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Zitamar is proud to present Angola Elects 2022, a special newsletter with regular updates from Luanda by our correspondent on the ground, Fernando Lima.
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Mozambique government fails to pay April salaries after T-bond auction failure
The Mozambican government is working to find a solution to pay civil servants’ salaries for April after failing to borrow MZN 3 billion from the domestic banking system
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Now FREE TO READ:
Rwanda says its intervention in Mozambique is a self-financed act of African solidarity - but France is nevertheless likely to be playing a key role
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It is unclear why Nyusi would want a personal campaign contribution paid via a scrap metal merchant — or why Privinvest was happy to make political donations via a UAE-registered company instead of directly to Frelimo’s bank account
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Manuel Chang in the dock for his extradition hearing in Pretoria, South Africa
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Ossufo Momade has won the Renamo leadership election, according to a Congress delegate who contacted Zitamar this morning.
The votes are currently being recounted to confirm Momade's margin of victory over Elias Dhlakama. Manuel Bissopo was best of the rest with just 8 votes.
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Mozambique’s security and defence forces (FDS) are “trying to control” a "tense and fluid” situation in Mocimboa da Praia after “successive waves of attacks”over the past week, defence minister Jaime Neto said
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President Filipe Nyusi and Daniel Chapo, ruling party Frelimo's presidential candidate, visited Rwandan capital Kigali unnanounced on Saturday, and may have met with Rwandan president Paul Kagame. The Mozambican government has not acknowledged the trip
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Thread - Miracle on the Lucite river
1/ On Tuesday afternoon, a boat carrying eight people, including a baby and a 4 year old, capsized in the rapid waters brought by Cyclone Freddy. A 44-hour search and rescue operation brought them all to safety.
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Bound, blindfolded and kicked into the sea: Mozambican marines have been capturing and even killing innocent people they find on boats off the Cabo Delgado coast, multiple sources say
Read more here ⬇️
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Tanzanian authorities “de-activated” a group of suspected insurgents attempting to cross the Mozambique border to go to Mocímboa da Praia this week, Mozambique’s foreign minister says
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The attack is the first outside Cabo Delgado since 17 June, when a civilian was beheaded in the village of Lúrio in Nampula
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It took three weeks, but as expected, the insurgency in Cabo Delgado reacted brutally to the death of Ibn Omar, the military commander of IS Mozambique.
What comes next?
Analysis from the Cabo Ligado project, free to read ⤵️
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"The security environment created by the Rwandan presence in Palma and Mocímboa da Praia has completely changed the local dynamics of the conflict."
Read our journalists' essay produced for the Hudson Institute on the conflict in Cabo Delgado since 2021:
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Insurgents attacked the village of Limala in Mocímboa da Praia district, Cabo Delgado, at around 4am yesterday, and lost over twelve fighters to Rwandan security forces stationed nearby. Other insurgents also set up two roadblocks on the N380 highway.
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Testimonies from people who were in Palma when it was attacked in March dispel accusations of racism on the part of the Dyck Advisory Group, but point to an almost total failure of the government forces to protect the town and people
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Mozambique’s tax authorities want to insert a new clause into the country’s taxation treaty with Mauritius to prevent mining and oil and gas companies from using the African island nation as a way to avoid Mozambican taxes
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Local authorities ordered civilians in the Macomia coast, Cabo Delgado province, to leave their homes, as insurgents have recently moved freely in the area. Though unconfirmed, the order to clear the area may be aimed at carrying out a security operation.
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President Nyusi to meet with SADC 'Troika' - Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa, Botswana's Masisi, and Zambia's Lungu - in Harare tomorrow to discuss the Cabo Delgado insurgency
@edmnangagwa
and
@SADC_News
#Troika
to meet on northern
#Mozambique
jihadists.
cc
@VanguardAfrica
@OpenParlyZw
@4ThinkTank
@DrTaxs
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Rwanda's military intervention in Cabo Delgado has brought some successes, but much remains to be done, while questions of financing remain unclarified
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Gorongosa coffee is partnering with Swiss coffee giant Nespresso, to start producing limited edition capsules of the Mozambican coffee in 2021 or 2022
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💥 Ibn Omar, said to be the leader of the IS-Mozambique insurgency in Cabo Delgado, has been killed in a military operation in Macomia district, the Mozambican military has announced.
More on our Telegram channel (and in comments below the original post):
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Mozambique has found no new cases of coronavirus over the last 24 hours, the health ministry has just announced, at its daily briefing. The total in the country remains 7.
Jack Ma Foundation has donated 20,000 coronavirus tests, 100,000 masks, and 100 personal protection kits
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Government forces are attempting to regain control of Mocimboa da Praia after insurgents drove them out in a dawn raid this morning
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Independent security analyst Johann Smith's report on the fight for the strategic Cabo Delgado town of Macomia, 28-31 May 2020
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Mozambican and regional allied forces are struggling to contain insurgent attacks and stabilise security in Cabo Delgado province’s northern districts bordering Tanzania
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Mozambique government forces with mercenary air support attacked an insurgent base in Mocimboa da Praia district on Tuesday, forcing insurgents to head north
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Despite escalating violence Cabo Delgado, the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) is set to end in July.
Our analysis on what this means for the conflict ⬇️
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'Cabo Ligado' is a new Mozambique conflict observatory launched by
@ACLEDINFO
in partnership with Zitamar News and Mediafax.
Cabo Delgado - the main focus of the project - is often called 'Cabo Desligado', or 'disconnected cape', by its people who feel forgotten by Maputo.
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A major attack on the town of Mocímboa da Praia in recent days has culminated in the capture of the town’s heavily defended port by insurgents, according to multiple sources
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Contradictory statements make the outcome of Chang's extradition case 'totally unpredictable'
Read Zitamar's update on the situation here:
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Cabo Ligado Weekly: 24-30 May 2021
▪️ Insurgents in Palma, militia in Muidumbe
▪️ Life in Macomia vs. Nangade
▪️ Thousands still stuck on Afungi; SADC resolves to meet again
Full report in English:
And in Portuguese:
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Credit Suisse has admitted to defrauding US and international investors in financing Ematum, and will pay more than $547m in penalties, fines, and 'disgorgement'.
More details and statements on the Zitamar Live Blog:
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Sasol is abandoning its exploration license for two blocks offshore Mozambique, after plans to drill near the Bazaruto Islands provoked a strong backlash from environmental groups and tourism operators
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A major relief effort is underway in Beira and the surrounding area for what may be the worst weather-related disaster ever to hit the southern hemisphere
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💥 Insurgents in Cabo Delgado launched attacks last night on the village of Naquitengue in Mocímboa da Praia district and the area around Lake Nguri in Macomia district.
Several people were reportedly beheaded at Naquitengue, according to local sources.
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The entire coast of Cabo Delgado has been designated a ‘Listed Area’ by the Lloyd’s Market Association Joint War Committee — meaning ship owners will be required to notify their insurance underwriters of voyages in that area
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Brazilian mining giant Vale and the Mozambican government have been hiding figures that show dangerous and illegal levels of air pollution in Moatize, where Vale operates two coal mines
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The Area 1 Mozambique LNG project is Africa's biggest single foreign direct investment — until the neighbouring Area 4 Rovuma LNG project is signed off, expected later this year
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Brazilian mining giant Vale has appointed a Mozambican to head its Mozambican subsidiary, for the first time in the company’s history
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FREE TO READ
The police in Cabo Delgado have failed to locate a journalist who went missing a week ago — and yesterday harassed another who was documenting alleged human rights abuses by the police
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Two girls escaped a large insurgent camp near the Messalo River, under tree cover so dense that lamps and lanterns were needed even during daylight hours — and helicopters failed to locate it
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More than 3,000 people in central Mozambique say they have been forced to leave their homes by violence perpetrated by the Renamo Military Junta and by government forces
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Insurgent-linked timber exports are part of a wider trade in which hundreds of thousands of tonnes of timber are being illegally exported to China every year
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Daniel Francisco Chapo has been elected Frelimo’s candidate for Mozambique's presidential election in October, state broadcaster TVM is reporting, making him the most likely person to be Mozambique's next president.
More:
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The Presidents of Mozambique and Tanzania spoke by telephone today, agreeing among other things to reinforce coordination in the fight against terrorism in both countries. (File photo)
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President Filipe Nyusi was the “prime mover” in the contracts between the Mozambican state and shipbuilder Privinvest that led to the so-called “hidden debts” scandal, a court in London heard on Monday
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Parliamentary hearings on proposed new media laws took place last month. Media professionals across the sector argued that the legislation would allow the government to control the press in ways that violate Mozambique’s constitution
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Mozambique airline board sacked after fuel shortage leaves Prime Minister stranded
The entire board of Mozambique's state-owned airline LAM was fired yesterday, after a fuel shortage left all of its passengers, including the Prime Minister, stranded
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Attacks in Palma district are leaving the population fearful, though the LNG project seems well defended
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Mozambique has banned all international passenger flights in and out of the country, except for certain authorised charter flights such as for humanitarian and diplomatic purposes, with immediate effect
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President Filipe Nyusi has landed in Tanzania, received by his counterpart John Magufuli, for a two-day visit.
Rais wa Msumbiji, Filipe Nyusi akiwasili nchini Tanzania na kupokelewa na mwenyeji wake, Rais Dkt.
@MagufuliJP
katika Uwanja wa Ndege wa Mkoa wa Geita. Rais Nyusi anafanya ziara ya kikazi ya siku mbili.
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Mozambique president Nyusi is Kroll’s ‘Person Q’
To say that Nyusi is tainted by the deals is a serious understatement - as Zitamar has been reporting since 2016
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Insurgent violence against civilians tripled between December 2023 and January 2024, as the insurgents captured Mucojo village in Macomia district and killed 21 civilians last month
Read Cabo Ligado's January summary here⬇️
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We are proud to launch the Angola Economic Briefing in partnership with Moxico Risk Consulting LLP, and
@Markbohlund
.
Sign up here for twice-weekly updates, analysis and forecasts on the latest political, economic and energy-sector developments in Angola:
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Chinese businessmen operating in Sofala have exported thousands of tonnes of unprocessed timber from Mozambique over recent years, in defiance of a Mozambican ban, Chinese import data shows
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Mozambique's Attorney General has filed charges at a court in Maputo against former finance minister Manuel Chang, and three former central bank employees
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FREE TO READ:
The head of Mozambique's Bar Association says the Association will do everything it can to have the debts ruled illegal or 'odious'
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NGOs lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of aid and equipment in the insurgent attack on Macomia town on 10 May. The
#WFP
lost 160 tonnes of food and had to suspend operations in the district, despite over 80,000 people facing acute food insecurity
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FREE TO READ
Mozambique must immediately free journalist Amade Abubacar and investigate allegations that he has been ill-treated, United Nations human rights experts said today
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This week, Mozambicans voted in local elections.
Both Frelimo and Renamo have claimed victory in several contested municipalities.
Watch our explainer ⬇️
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Media licencing fees a ‘blatant attack on press freedom’ in Mozambique
International press freedom organisations condemn "unwarranted and unprecedented fees" that raise fears of crackdown on press freedom
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Nyusi’s role as defence minister when the three companies were established has meant he has been unable to wash his hands of the biggest scandal in Mozambique’s history
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FREE TO READ
The supply of essential goods to Mozambique should not be disrupted — but a global and local economic slowdown, combined with inflation and a falling metical, will need careful management by the Mozambican authorities
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Mozambique's police and military have confirmed a massacre that took place in Cabo Delgado on 7 April
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The current minister of defence helped a secret service officer launder $1 million of bribes received from Privinvest, according to Mozambican prosecutors' case
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Insurgents in northern Mozambique killed at least five people in attacks launched near the Nangade district headquarters yesterday, while President Filipe Nyusi was visiting the district
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