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 …
Maputo — The final death toll from the storms and floods that hit Mozambique in the 2014-15 rainy season was 163, according to the Minister of State Administration, Carmelita Namashalua. Speaking in the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, in response to questions about the impact of the floods, …
Maputo — The Mozambican government has passed a decree regulating the use of plastic bags, in order to reduce the environmental problems associated with the proliferation of plastic bags. Explaining the measure to reporters on Tuesday, after the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet), the government spokesperson, Deputy …
U.S. intelligence agencies are considering whether to provide information, analysis and possibly tactical lessons to African governments about how to attack wildlife poaching networks, according to a top official. “We are looking for opportunities” where “we can contribute,” Terrance Ford, the national intelligence manager for Africa in the office of …
MAPUTO - Mozambique has lost half its elephants over the past five years, part of a wave of poaching driven by red-hot demand for ivory from fast-growing Asian economies such as Chinaand Vietnam, a conservation organisation said on Tuesday. The results of a survey indicate the southern African nation's elephant …
Poachers have killed nearly half of Mozambique’s elephants for their ivory in the past five years, the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday. A Mozambique government-backed survey showed a dramatic 48% decline in elephant numbers from just over 20,000 to an estimated 10,300, the WCS said. “This decline is …
Maputo — The governor of the central Mozambican province of Sofala, Helena Taipo, has authorized the resumption of logging, after a closed door meeting with timber operators, local chiefs and staff of the provincial forestry and wild life department, reports the latest issue of the independent weekly “Savana”. Throughout Mozambique …
Mozambique lost 48 percent of its elephants from poaching in the past five years—a decline from 20,000 to 10,300—the Wildlife Conservation Society reported on Tuesday. Earlier this month, authorities confiscated 65 rhino horns and 1.2 tons of elephant ivory from a private residence on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique's capital. …
Mozambique is mulling a plan to lease 240,000 hectares of prime farmland to investors to grow crops for export, threatening to displace more than 100,000 local residents, activists and academics said, citing a leaked document. The Lurio River Valley Development Project in the country's northeast aims to produce cotton, corn, …
Mozambican police have seized nearly 1.3 metric tons (1.4 tons) of ivory and rhino horns, obtained from the illegal slaughter of 65 rhinos and 170 elephants, in a house belonging to a Chinese national. Mozambique is a major source of poachers willing to cross the porous border with South Africa …
Rhino poaching in South Africa is at record levels, the country’s environment minister has warned, with an 18 % rise in the first four months of 2015 on the same period a year ago. Edna Molewa said that by the end of April 2015 the number of rhino lost to …
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has approved a USD 740,000 technical assistance grant to the Government of Mozambique to enhance the enabling environment for private investments in the country's promising renewable energy sector. Specifically, the new SEFA grant will support the implementation of the country's feed-in tariff regime …
Over the last seven years the Mozambican village of Guguruni has housed hundreds of people whose homes elsewhere were destroyed by floods. This year it succumbed. The plight of its inhabitants, who again are seeking a place to settle, underscores the task confronting authorities scrambling to find dry land for …
Maputo — Delegations from the Mozambican and Zimbabwean authorities met this week in the central city of Chimoio to discuss the pollution of international rivers caused by illegal artisanal gold mining, according to a report in Thursday's issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”. The Revue and Pungoe rivers are being …
In a country afflicted by chronic malnutrition, the fertile soil of Mozambique’s central Manica province offers up rich sustenance to those who know how to work it. Subsistence farmer Lianeva Candiado, a grandmother who has been raising her one-year-old grandson, Pedrito Artur, since the death of her daughter, is learning …
Maputo — The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank on Monday approved a loan of 50 million US dollars to improve food security in Mozambique. The loan is described as the second of a series of three agriculture budget support operations that finance agricultural reform in Mozambique. A …
A hunter who paid $350,000 last year at a Dallas auction for a license to hunt an endangered black rhino in Namibia will be able to bring home a trophy despite protests from animal rights groups that said the sale was immoral. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on …
The Health Ministry on 16 March confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever in the northern province of Nampula. Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, is a disease caused by the dengue virus which is carried by mosquitoes of the aedes genus, mainly the species aedes aegypti (different from the …
An ongoing decline in overall elephant numbers remains likely as the poaching of African elephants continued to exceed population growth rates throughout 2014, a new United Nations-backed report warned today. "African elephant populations continue to face an immediate threat to their survival from high-levels of poaching for their ivory, especially …
LILONGWE, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has intensified support for Malawi and Mozambique in the wake of an outbreak of cholera in the two African countries, the UN health agency said. "The WHO offices in Malawi and Mozambique are facilitating cross-border meetings for the ministries of …
Maputo — The cholera outbreaks in central and northern Mozambique, which began in late December, have now claimed 41 lives, according to the deputy national director of public health, Quinhas Fernandes. Fernandes told a Maputo press conference on Monday that the number of confirmed cases in the four provinces affected …
