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Mozambique’s former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang, will reportedly be extradited to New York next month to face charges in the United States over his role in a $2 billion bond fraud scandal involving also Credit Suisse Group AG that paid $475 million for its role in alleged fraud, a UN prosecutor said on Monday June […]
South Africa has never really been affected by terrorism attacks. Its democracy is solid, its economy stable. However, it is considered a stronghold for the financing of the Islamic State (IS) group and other Islamist organizations, South African counter-terrorism expert Jasmine Opperman told AFP. Islamist financiers gather money in the country and transfer it into […]
Egypt and Angola signed Wednesday two Memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in fields of security and groundwater on the sideline of the visit of the Egyptian leader Abdelfattah al-Sisi. Angolan President Joao Lourenco and his guest al-Sisi witnessed the signings following talks between the two leaders. The talks according to al-Sisi’s Office covered a […]
The former Cameroon international Samuel Eto’o arrived in Guinea-Bissau Monday to animate the election campaign of the Movement for Democratic Change (Madem-G15), announcing the party that is running for the legislative elections on June 4. Currently president of the Cameroon soccer Federation, Eto’o is being announced in the official organs of Madem-G15 as a “guest […]
Italian oil and gas major Eni started drilling new exploration well off the coast of Mozambique, while the country’s authorities have green-lighted the resumption of the $20 billion Cabo Delgado gas project, in which TotalEnergies owns an operating stake of 26.5%, The Italian oil and gas giant Eni is drilling its first exploration well in […]
China is importing more food products such as avocados, cashews, sesame seeds and chili peppers from Africa, after President Xi Jinping promised to increase non-resource imports from Africa and agriculture is emerging as the new focus of Beijing’s engagement with the continent. In the first two months of this year, Shanghai ports handled more than […]
The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), a humanitarian fund set up by the United Nations, has granted Malawi $5.5 million expected to be used to back hundreds of thousands of people affected by Freddy, a tropical cyclone that has hit the country in the past days. The South of the African country has been battered […]
The South African military (SANDF) intervening in Mozambique against jihadists said Tuesday it is investigating the involvement of its soldiers after a video widely shared on social media showed soldiers burning dead bodies. The command is “investigating the involvement of its members in this despicable act,” the SANDF said in a statement. “The culprits will […]
Mozambique, Ecuador, Japan, Malta and Switzerland received a formal welcome as non-permanent members into the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, January 3, taking the two-year seats they won unopposed in June last year. Mozambique replaced Kenya as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council from 1 January, having been elected in June 2023 […]
Some jurists consider controversial the thesis defended by the president of the Mozambican Association of Judges, Carlos Mondlane, that the cases of terrorism in the country should be judged by military courts, arguing these courts created in the past serious transgressions to human rights. Carlos Mondlane responds that the cases of terrorism in Mozambique should […]