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 …
This report outlines the results of a scientific study of the impacts of weather, climate variability, and climate change on health in Mozambique, with a focus on diarrheal disease and malaria. The principal objective of this work is to build a scientific knowledge base to support informed investments and decision …
MAPUTO (Reuters) - The southern hemisphere summer rainy season has killed 50 people in Mozambique since October, the country’s National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) said in its latest update on Thursday. This figure includes 17 people killed in the capital Maputo on Monday when a 15-metre pile of garbage …
The European Union (EU) in Mozambique told Xinhua on Thursday in Maputo that it has an aid package of more than 300 million Euros (about 370 million U.S. dollars) to support the country's rural development in the northern province of Nampula and central Zambezia, in sectors of energy, agriculture and …
Maputo — The storms that have lashed much of Mozambique, particularly the northern provinces, since the start of the current rainy season last October have caused 50 deaths to date, and have affected about 130,000 people. Speaking to reporters in Maputo on Wednesday, the spokesperson for the relief agency, the …
Cape Town — Mozambique authorities have announced a return to water restrictions of 2017 due to the scarcity of water in the Pequenos Libombos reservoir, Verdade Online reports. "We are going to retake those burdensome restrictions that we had introduced last year," said Gildo Timóteo, Director of the Water Production …
Cape Town - The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump’s recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Department of Interior to allow elephant trophies into the United States. In 2016 alone the US imported 3 249 …
Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes in Mozambique reveal patterns consistent with inefficiency …
Maputo - Mozambique authorities on Wednesday introduced water rationing to more than a million residents in the capital Maputo due to a severe drought. The city is cutting the water supply to consumers to just 40% of normal levels, Casimiro Abreu, deputy director of the National Emergency Centre said in …
The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis on Thursday allocated 515 million U.S. dollars to support Mozambique’s combat against the three infectious diseases, the leading cause of deaths in the southern African country. “HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria remain responsible for high morbidity and mortality in the country,” Mozambique’s …
Maputo — The Mozambican government on Tuesday approved a contingency plan for dealing with possible natural disasters during the 2017-2018 rainy season, budgeted at a billion meticais (about 17 million US dollars). Speaking to reporters at the end of the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet), the government …
Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are among the 15 countries accounting for about 80 per cent of malaria deaths globally in 2016, says the World Malaria Report 2017. The other countries in Africa with a high incidence of malaria cases and deaths are Ethiopia, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan …
From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and infringements of the rights of vulnerable …
Kenya is among countries where trafficking in wildlife trophies is rampant, a new report indicates. The findings are contained in a task force report by the US Department of State released on Thursday last week. The report lists Kenya in the league of notorious countries that still have loopholes allowing …
The World Bank says $5 million in emergency funding will help Madagascar finance the response to the island nation’s plague outbreak, as the death toll has reached at least 127 victims there – and threatens to spread to neighboring nations. More than 1,800 suspected cases have been reported since August …
Australia’s corporate regulator has revealed it could pursue criminal charges against Rio Tinto executives after the company failed to promptly tell shareholders about a multi-billion dollar write-down of a coal asset in Mozambique. Greg Medcraft, the chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic), was asked a series of …
Scientists at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) have designed a forest observatory database that gives information on activities that contributes to the destruction and degradation of forests in Africa. Ngugi Kimani, a scientist at RCMRD told Xinhua in Nairobi on Friday that the Eastern African …
This report summarises the main findings and recommendations of recent research into the barriers to accessing climate finance for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in Mozambique. WaterAid commissioned this analysis by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in 2016 as part of the WaterAid Climate Finance Initiative, which aims …
Following two decades of having signed a power trade agreement, the Mozambique-Malawi power transmission line project is officially set to begin in 2018. According to the Southern Times, the delay in the project has been due to former Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika, who argued that Malawi was too poor …
MAPUTO Mozambique (Xinhua) -- The Mozambican Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development (MITADER) announced here on Monday that 20 Tanzanian citizens will be deported for their involvement in poaching in northern Mozambique. According to the MITADER’s note, these Tanzanian illegal hunters were sentenced to three or four years in …
MAPUTO (Xinhua) -- National fuel authorities confirmed in Maputo on Monday that Mozambique will introduce fuel with low sulfur content this September complying with the recommendations from the United Nations Agency for Environment. The National Director of Hydrocarbon and Fuel, Moises Paulino said that this move is part of the …
