This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) captures the interplay between development challenges and climate change and climate policies in Mozambique, with the objective of identifying synergies and tradeoffs. The CCDR informs the World Bank Group’s engagement in Mozambique, alongside other key products, such as Systematic Country Diagnostics (SCDs) and …
A deadly storm has killed five people and injured 39 others in Boane district, about 30 kilometres south-west of the Mozambican capital Maputo, an official said Sunday.Boane district administrator Teresa Mahuai told APA that the catastrophic incident occurred after a prolonged severe drought devastating Maputo province and many parts of …
The Mozambican government announced on Thursday that it has collected eight tons of plastic bags with a thickness of less than 30 micrometres all over the country in its latest campaign to ban their usage. The Ministry of Health says that plastic bags pose a danger for people's health. The …
Severe droughts and floods triggered by one of the strongest El Niño weather events ever recorded have left nearly 100 million people in southern Africa, Asia and Latin America facing food and water shortages and vulnerable to diseases including Zika, UN bodies, international aid agencies and governments have said. New …
45 people have died in the storms and floods which have hit parts of northern Mozambique since the start of the current rainy season in October. Speaking at a Maputo press conference on 5 February, the director of the National Operational Emergency Centre (CENOE), Mauricio Xerinda, said that the deaths …
London — The US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) on Saturday warned that drought conditions caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon are likely to cause further deterioration in food security in Mozambique. The Mozambican government estimates that 176,000 people are currently in need of food aid. However, …
More than 10,000 people living in the outlying neighbourhoods of the western city of Tete are without clean drinking water. The people affected live outside of the area covered by the piped water system run by the government's Water Supply Investment and Assets Fund (FIPAG). The problem was raised at …
Provincial authorities in Mozambique’s resource-rich Tete province say at least 450,000 peasant farmers have been affected by drought in the region where up to 64,000 hectares of crops have been lost, APA can report.Data released by the provincial permanent secretary, Lina Portugal at a meeting in Tete on Wednesday reveals …
A combination of torrential rains in the north of the Zambezi and severe drought in southern Mozambique has prompted the country’s relief agency, the Disaster Management Technical Commission (CTGC) to issue an orange alert. This is one step removed from the maximum state of disaster readiness, a red alert. The …
CITES called on Tanzania and Mozambique – both of which have lost more than half their elephants since 2009 – to take critical steps against ivory trafficking before its next meeting in September. Meanwhile, the committee recommended that Angola, Laos and Nigeria should face sanctions on trade in CITES-listed species …
Maputo — More than 10,000 people living in the outlying neighbourhoods of the western Mozambican city of Tete are without clean drinking water, since there is a shortage of water sources in these parts of the city. The people affected live outside of the area covered by the piped water …
Mozambique is one of many countries feeling the strain of El Nino, which has dried up rainfall across southern Africa over the last year, killing crops and disrupting hydropower production. Although various factors have contributed to the area's food security issues in recent years, for this year, extremely high temperatures, …
Lions are getting pregnant and the waterbuck population is soaring at one of Mozambique’s main national parks, once the scene of fighting during a civil war which virtually wiped out the park’s lions, elephants and many other species. The 15-year conflict that killed up to 1 million people ended in …
Mozambique’s relief agency, the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) says about 140 families were left homeless following heavy rains that pounded the Montepuez district in the country’s northern province of Cabo Delgado at the weekend. INGC said heavy rains accompanied by strong winds destroyed 17 homes, while leaving some …
Mozambique’s Food and Nutritional Security Technical Secretariat (SETSAN), and the relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) have disclosed that more than 170,000 people in the country’s southern provinces of Gaza and Inhambane, are facing acute food insecurity due to the drought which has hit this part of the …
Maputo — The data from the 2014-15 Household Survey, undertaken by Mozambique's National Statistics Institute (INE), and released in Maputo on Wednesday, show an across the board improvement in living standards since the previous survey, held in 2008-09. Perhaps the most startling figure is the declining percentage of disposable income …
Land, Forestry and Rural Development Minister Celso Correia says Mozambique is losing more than 219,000 hectares of forest annually due to illegal logging, a reality that particularly affects the provinces of Tete, Manica, Zambézia, Nampula and Cabo Delgado.According to state-controlled daily Noticias, Correia revealed that the situation had been aggravating …
The African Development Bank has launched the report, “Transition towards Green Growth in Mozambique: Policy review and recommendations for action,” which summarizes the development process of the Green Economy Action Plan (GEAP) prepared to operationalize the ambitious goals of the country’s Green Economy Roadmap – a plan that outlines the …
This book provides ideas and methodologies for fostering and developing partnerships for climate compatible development that truly acknowledge the concerns and needs of local communities, especially those communities that host the urban poor and the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. It proposes a Participatory Action Planning methodology to organise …
Maputo — The Mozambican Health Ministry intends to introduce a new vaccine against poliomyelitis, which will be officially launched on Friday in Manhica district, 89 kilometres north of Maputo. This is the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which contains inactivated strains of all three poliovirus types. Since it is not a …
The Manica provincial police commander, Armando Canheza, has said the recently established Natural Resources Protection Police of Mozambique has seized 124 pumps that were being used for illegal mining in the province.Local media reported on Tuesday that the police are seeking to combat gold mining techniques which lead to pollution …
