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August 24, 2026, 4:52 pm
GCERF Calls for Integrated Response Against Terrorism
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), an independent and non-profit foundation based in Geneva, calls for integrated response to violent extremism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
Sasol Paid More Than 670 Million Dollars in Taxes Over Past 11 Year
- [AIM] Maputo -- The South African petrochemical giant Sasol paid, over the past 11 years, more than 670 million US dollars to Mozambican State in taxes.
Chapo Urges Senior State Officials to Address Population's Main Concerns
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican President Daniel Chapo, as leader of the ruling Frelimo party, has encouraged the senior state officials to seek solutions to address the population's main concerns, especially unemployment and hunger.
Fishermen Kidnapped By Terrorists in Quissanga
- [AIM] Maputo -- Residents of the coastal district of Quissanga, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, have denounced the disappearance of four fishermen while at sea.
Frelimo Calls for Stronger Measures Against Terrorism
- [AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party calls for stronger measures against the Islamist terrorism that has been plaguing the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
Generational Challenge Demands Measures Toward Economic Independence
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican President Daniel Chapo, as leader of the ruling Frelimo party, believes that the country's generational challenge demands a paradigm shift toward the achievement of economic independence.
Mozambique LNG Already Trained 100 SMEs in Cabo Delgado
- [AIM] Maputo -- The French oil and gas company TotalEnergies, which heads the liquefied natural gas (LNG) consortium, in Palma district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, has already trained 100 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in that province.
Islamist Terrorists Have Stepped Up Recruitment in Cabo Delgado - UN
- [AIM] Maputo -- An United Nations report submitted to the Security Council points out that the Islamist terrorists have stepped up recruitment in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, growing to between 400 and 500 fighters.
Police Commander Arrested for Illegal Mining
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Police commander of Chinde District, in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the illegal mining of tantalite.
Tanzanian Metl Group to Invest 250 Million Dollars in Mozambique
- [AIM] Maputo -- MeTL Group, a Tanzanian conglomerate and one of the country's largest companies, has announced 250 million dollars investment in Mozambique.
Government Lays First Stone for 9.4 Million Dollars Topuito Industrial Park
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government on Wednesday launched the construction of Topuito Industrial Park, in Larde district, Northern Province of Nampula, budgeted at 9.4 million US dollars.
Nuvunga Challenges GCCC Decision to Close Investigation Into Aircraft Purchase
- [AIM] Maputo -- A prominent Mozambican NGO, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), on Wednesday challenged the decision by the country's Central Office for the Fight against Corruption (GCCC) to close an investigation into alleged irregularities in aircraft acquisitions by employees of the publicly-owned company Air Mozambique (formerly known as Mozambique Airlines, LAM).
Okapi - New Book Celebrates a Once Famous Animal and Recovers Indigenous Experts' Place in Its History
- [The Conversation Africa] As a child growing up in the Ndumo Game Reserve on the South Africa-Mozambique border, Simon Pooley read an animal encyclopaedia given to his family by a visiting scientist. He became fascinated by the okapi, a striking animal from the Congo Basin rainforest. Decades later as a conservation scientist and environmental historian recovering from dengue fever contracted during research, he returned to that early interest. Visiting London Zoo, he began investigating the okapi's history, discovering in the
Zambezi Valley Agency to Disburse Six Million Us Dollars for SMEs
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Zambezi Valley Agency, based in the central Mozambican province of Tete, will disburse six million US dollars aimed at funding small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the central and northern Mozambique.
Malawi's Power Crisis Deepens As Mozambique Lifeline Misses Third Deadline
- [Nyasa Times] Malawi is entering yet another dark chapter in its electricity crisis. The much-touted Mozambique-Malawi Interconnection Project, meant to inject urgently needed power into the national grid, has missed its third commissioning deadline.
Nine Senior Lam Officials to Face Trial for Mismanagement
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Central Office for the Fight against Corruption (GCCC) has announced that nine senior officials of the publicly-owned company Air Mozambique (formerly known as Mozambique Airlines, LAM) will face court proceedings over alleged mismanagement.
Governo Concretiza Parque Industrial De Topuito Para Facilitar Ligação Entre Pmes E Kennmar
- [AIM] Larde, 19 de Agosto (AIM) -- O Governo de Moçambique concretizou, esta quarta-feira, no distrito de Larde, província de Nampula, o arranque da construção do Parque Industrial de Topuito, uma infra-estrutura avaliada em 600 milhões de meticais, concebida para aproximar as Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PMEs) das oportunidades de fornecimento de bens e serviços geradas pela Kennmar, empresa que explora areias pesadas na região.
Government's Agricultural Plan Budgeted At Two Billion Us Dollars
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government's agricultural plan is budgeted at two billion US dollars, said the Minister of Planning and Development, Salim Valá, speaking to reporters during his working visit to areas hit by floods in the southern province of Gaza.
Can Mozambique's New Counter-Terrorism Centre Deliver?
- [ISS] The centre fills a major counter-insurgency gap in the north, but the challenge will be translating good intentions into results.
Chamboco Confident Mozambique Can Make Their Mark At TotalEnergies CAF Futsal Afcon Morocco 2026
- [CAF] Mozambique international Fernando Chamboco believes the continued growth of futsal in his country has created a platform for the nation to challenge strongly at the TotalEnergies CAF Futsal Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026.
Ramaphosa Pledges to Strengthen Regional Integration
- [AIM] Durban -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday took over chairmanship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), pledging to strengthen regional integration through policies of economic inclusion.
Violence Will Never Be Path to Resolving Migration-Related Conflicts - Chapo
- [AIM] Durban -- Mozambican Daniel Chapo urged that violence will never be the path to resolving migration-related conflicts between peoples who share the same history.
Rehabilitation of Ressano Garcia Border Post Budgeted At 980 Million
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Minister of Transport and Logistics, João Matlombe, on Monday laid the first stone for the rehabilitation of Ressano Garcia One-Stop Border Post, which is budgeted at 980 million meticais (14.9 million dollars at the current exchange rate).
ExxonMobil Awards Contracts Worth About $1.1 Billion Dollars
- [AIM] Maputo -- The US oil and gas company ExxonMobil has announced the award of contracts worth about 1.1 US billion dollars in pre-investment for critical long-lead upstream equipment, supporting the first phase of the development of Rovuma LNG project, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
Koica Disburses 7.7 Dollars for Hospital in Katembe
- [AIM] Maputo -- The South Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has disbursed 7.7 million US dollars for the construction of a district hospital in KaTembe, Maputo city.
Modernization of Machipanda Border Budgeted At 37.2 Million Dollars
- [AIM] Maputo -- The Integrated Project for the Modernization and Expansion of Machipanda Border is budgeted at 37.2 million US dollars.
Mozambican Police Accused of 'Eliminating Those Who Think Differently'
- [AIM] Maputo -- Venancio Mondlane, former presidential candidate and leader of the National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique (Anamola), accuses the Mozambican Police (PRM) of eliminating those who think differently.
Anarme Seizes Unspecified Quantity of Unlabeled Medicine
- [AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's National Medicine Regulatory Authority (ANARME) has seized an unspecified quantity of unlabeled medicine and substances from a private clinic located in the country's capital, Maputo.
1.4 Tons of Fentanyl Seized At Maputo International Airport
- [AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) has announced the seizure of 1.4 tons of fentanyl at the Maputo International Airport cargo terminal.
South African Diplomat Issues Apology Over Recent Acts of Xenophobia
- [AIM] Maputo -- The newly designated South African High Commissioner to Mozambique, JT Pitswane, on Wednesday issued a formal apology to Mozambicans over recent acts of xenophobia in his territory, describing the attacks as contrary to the historic ties of friendship between the two nations.
