LAKE NIASSA is another reasons why you should visit Mozambique

Malawians call it Lake Malawi, Mozambicans call it Lago Niassa .

Some say the Mozambican shore is nicer,quieter and more rugged.

Off the beaten track,lake Niassa (Nyasa), the Mozambican side of Lake Malawi boasts a phenomenally beautiful and unspoiled countryside and shoreline well worth exploring if you have the time and patience.

Lake Niassa is the third largest lake in Africa – 100 km across and 585 km long, and much of it is surrounded by the imposing Rift Valley Mountains.This great lake's tropical waters are reportedly the habitat of more species of fish than those of any other body of freshwater on Earth,including more than 1000 species of cichlids.

Lake Niassa was officially declared a reserve by the Government of Mozambique in 2011 in an effort to protect one of the largest and bio-diverse freshwater lakes in the world Niassa is located to the west in the northern province of Niassa and forms part of the border between Malawi and Mozambique.

LAM offers regular flights from Maputo, Beira and Nampula to Lichinga airport.

From Lichinga public transport can be used to visit certain areas on the lake but for more remote destinations you will require your own vehicle or a private transfer.

To see it at its best,head for Nkwichi lodge,a beautiful low-impact lodge in the Manda Wilderness area in Northern Mozambique.

Nkwichi is built into the rocks and around the trees of one of the lake’s most remote bays.

You can get there by charter flight (expensive) or by the lake ferry MV Ilala from Monkey in Malawi to Likoma Island where the lodge will fetch you.

Swim,eat, lie in the sun, paddle a canoe, drink a cold beer, eat lunch, have an afternoon doze, repeat. 

Visit Manda wildness.

SOURCE SUNDAY TIMES.

PHOTOS:THE MOZA EYE

Wild mountain flowers blooming after the first rains

LAURENTINA PRETA:top quality Mozambican beer,Dark in colour, Preta delivers smooth coffee and caramel notes without the harsh burnt taste of other dark beers.

Laurentina Preta is the only dark lager in Mozambique and has been internationally recognised for its quality.

The unique combination of four selected barley maltsgiveLaurentina a special taste that make it Mozambique’s premier top quality beer.

GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK:one of the best reasons to visit Mozambique

GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK

Before the civil war came(30 May 1977–1994),Gorongosa was one of Africa’s great game parks,teeming with elephants buffaloes,lions – the park’s emblem -and majestic sable antelope.

The game park was devastated by the fighting as hungry soldiers butchered the animals for food.

Since the philanthropic Carr
Foundation,a U.S. not-for-profit organization,that teamed with the Government of Mozambique to protect and restore the ecosystem of Gorongosa National Park and to develop aneco tourism industry to benefit local communities)arrived and began rebuilding the park animal numbers have recoverd and the reserve is on track once more to becoming one of earth’s great wildlife experiences.

One of Africas wild kingdom has been reborn and who dosen't want to be there?National Park: 1960–1980

Photo:Xenophobic attacks that took place in South Africa

EMMANUEL SITHOLE WAS ATTACKED AND KILLED WHILE PEOPLE LOOKED ON,this current year when South Africans went on a xenophobic rage that targeted fellow Africans in South Africa.Many died.
Mozambicans hate xenophobia and do not practice it and have never practised at any time.Mozambicans love foreigners from all over the world.

Mozambican women

Mangoes are plentyful in Mozambique

Beira

beach market

Mozambican necklace

Mozambican necklace.

Ceiling collapses and causes two deaths in a mosque

MAPUTO CITY 27 NOVEMBER 2015

It looked like a normal day,but the intense heat that reached the maximum temperature of 39,7ºC in
Maputo city originated the low
pressure system at the end of the day, causing strong winds,which reached 90 km per hour accompanied by rain.

The bad weather caused some accidents in downtown.The most notable accident took place at an improvised mosque,at Av. Albert
Lithuli.The tragedy struck during worship time yesterday afternoon.
According to Bay Bique, one of
the mosque believers, of the 200 people who were on the spot,eight were injured and two died- a child and an adult.

Besides the mosque,the Primary School 24 de Julho, at Av.Josina Machel,was also affected.The winds drag ram plates from the ceiling onto the road.
The event coincided with a passing car down the avenue and it was fought with the ram plates.Fortunately,the driver was unharmed in the accident.

Scadoxus multiflorus -Gorongosa National Park

Scadoxus multiflorus -
Gorongosa national park

Nyusi requires transparency in the election of the new secretary general of OJM

The Mozambican Youth Organisation (OJM) elected today the new Secretary
General,a post for which three young men competed in particular Dalfino Guila,Hendro Nhavene and Mety Gondola.

Pedro Cossa's successor election is one of the main agenda points of the first congress of the youth wing of Frelimo, which yesterday took off in Matola.

The opening ceremony was addressed by the president of Frelimo,whose entry into the courtroom of the Party Central School was cheered by 1125 delegates (the 1200 squad)and guests.

Filipe Nyusi watched the parade and
greetings of social organizations of the party and founders of OJM.On behalf of the founders,Zacarias Kupela recalled
that it was the November 29,1977 that the then President,Samora Machel, proclaimed on behalf of Frelimo,the creation of OJM as party cadres school

The president of Frelimo drew
attention of young people to the need to respect the pre-established rules during the electoral process.Filipe
Nyusi's trip to Malta and could not keep up with the election of the new
Secretary General of the party youth arm, the first of its consulate.

Maleiane says that state has money to pay salaries,including bonus

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Adriano Maleiane,spoke yesterday
to reporters,in response to a question about the delay in the payment of salaries in the Civil Service.

Employees of various sectors of the
state apparatus have not yet received wages this month,at least until the end of yesterday afternoon,something that has not been common.

The situation left the public officials apprehensive several days ago.
The situation began to be noted on Monday,day 22,when employees of somensectors in particular military
and Defense Mozambique,Police of Mozambique,education, health, among
others, began to complain about
the delay in various media.

The silence from the authorities about the delay was reason even more anxiety generated within the staff.The Ministry of Sea, Inland and Fisheries, through theDAF / 2015 note, the
Department of Administration and Finance,was one of the few institutions that warned employees about the
situation,although it has not revealed the reason for the delay

Traditional leaders In Mozambique

SONGO CAHORA BASSA.

SECRETARIAS/SECRETERIES are traditional leaders who rule over villages in Mozambique.

They are very powerful and execute a lot of duties like presiding at local traditional ceremonies,receiving important gorvenment figures,writing declarations of proof of residence for those who want to open bank accounts,get loans from the gorvenment and banks or process birth certificates and IDs

They also give land to Mozambicans who need it.In the following photos the local village leaders are waiting to receive Presdent Filipe Nyusi on his visit to Cahora Bassa to participate at the 27th of November ceremony to Commemorate another anniversary for the reversal of HCB

Read more about REVERSAL OF Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa

PROTECTION OF THE ALBINO PERSON: COUNCIL OF MINISTERS APPROVES DECREE LAW

Albinos now have greater protection and security against criminal acts and
segregation.The government approved Wednesday,the ordinance that ensures the safety and protection of albino people in Mozambique.

The dramatic situation of abductions and extraction of albino organs in the country is making the government very concerned.Tuesday the Cabinet had to approve a legal provision that will protect and give proper security to the albino person in Mozambique.

The government said that it had already established a line of social action,through the ministries of Health and Social Welfare for assistance to this group of people but now it is to safeguard their physical integrity.

In the fortieth session of the
Council of Ministers the government approved the decree-law establishing the installation of toll gates in Maputo.

It does not point how many gates but it is estimated maybe five.Prices may vary 50-900 meticais,depending on the vehicle class.

Another measure taken by the government aims to make public transport cheaper for albino passengers through the exemption from VAT rate.Read more here

ASSAULTS WITH FIRE WEAPONS AND MATCHETES:POLICE DETAINED THREE INDIVIDUALS IN PEMBA,CABO DELGADO

The Police of the Republic of Mozambiwue in Cabo Delgado detained three individuals indicted of theft with use of machetes and firearms.

From the district of Nacala,Nampula province, the accused confessed their involvement in that type of crime.YoutubeASSALTOS COM RECURSO
A CATANAS E ARMAS
FOGO POLÍCIA DETEVE
TRÊS INDIVÍDUOS EM
PEMBA, CABO DELGADO

Nacala airport will open to the world in 2016

Nacala Airport will start receiving international traffic March 2016.

According to the president of the public company Airports of Mozambique (MoS),Emanuel Chaves, the airport will receive next month,December,their certification to operate as an international airport.

With the certification,airlines operating in Mozambique will now use the Nacala Airport in 2016.

Emanuel Chaves said he had already handed over to the national authorities a request for the airport of Nacala to be the only one in the north of the country to process International flights.

"It is expected that from March the companies operating in the north of the country shall begin to use the
airport infrastructure'',said Chaves, quoted by Macauhub.

The project of transformation of the Nacala airport into an international airport will mainly involve companies carrying passengers linked to the exploitation of natural gas deposits discovered in the Rovuma basin.

Zambezia want to increase production of cashew to 10,000 tons

Zambezia province intends to increase sales levels of cashew nuts.
In 2014/2015,the province did not exceed nine tons of cashew nuts.
In the current year (2015/2016) Zambezia expects to get an output of
just over 10 thousand tons.

The delegate of the National Cashew Institute in Zambezia,Jabula Zubia, warned producers to be more organized so as not to be obliged to change the prices of cashew nuts.
Unlike the price of other products, cashew nuts is set by buyers.

First lady says women should become involved more in the fight against "hunting" of albinos

The first lady of the republic yesterday
urged women of Nampula province to increasingly get involved in the fight against albino kidnappings plaguing
the country in recent times.

Isaura Nyusi was speaking at a meeting with the women of Nampula, the province with the highest incidence of albino abductions.

"We are here at this time,to attend to the issue of discrimination of our brothers albinos .We have to further intensify our work in hard form, because only with our firm can we transform this society'',said Isaura Nyusi.This year, 15 cases were recorded between kidnappings and murders of albinos.

Of the 22 individuals suspected of practicing this crime and held in different jails in Nampula,five already confessed to murdering and selling parts of human organs of albino citizens.

Albinos complain of persecution and insecurity

ALBINOS complain of persecution and
stigmatization in society.They say they have the same rights as any other Mozambican citizen,so it makes no sense to be treated as a source from which to create wealth.

Albinos complain about lack of security and stigmatization in schools,transport and public places.

In tones of indigination,they also say they have the same rights as any other Mozambican citizen and must never be seen as means for individuals to acquire wealth.

Albinos in Mozambique,at the instigation of wicked traditional healers,are kidnapped and murderd for their body parts which are then sold to businessmen in Mozambique or Tanzania.

This act is especially rife in the Nampula province of Mozambique.
Several people are arrested each year for engaging into this vile act.

The Mozambican gorvenment is doing its best to ensure safety for albinos,and parliament even passed bills to protect such individuals,but the most important thing to do is is to educate the Mozambican society and get over to them the message that people with albinism can't bring wealth them through satanic and evil rituals.

African Mangosteen or Garcinia Livingstonei.

We call the fruits from this
tree''matunduru''.Singular for
matunduru is ''dunduru''.The tree itself is''mutunduru''.I sometimes eat of the ripe fruits here in Songo Cahora Bassa.

They taste bitter...sometimes a little
sweet...but thats what WE love about the fruit!We eat them when they are truly ripe.Beautiful
African Mangosteen or
Garcinia Livingstonei.

Mozambicans love their traditional dances

THE MOZA EYE: Cactus plant

THE MOZA EYE: Cactus plant: CACTUS SOON AFTER THE FIRST RAINS,SONGO,CAHORA BASSA,TETE MOZAMBIQUE.

Cacti plant

                        

CACTI  SOON AFTER THE FIRST RAINS,SONGO,CAHORA BASSA,TETE MOZAMBIQUE.

A rare,strange way to bury the dead in Tete,Mozambique.

PHOTO:THE ROAD TO CAHORA BASSA


AN UNUSSUAL WAY TO BURY THE DEAD.
There is a place called Cabvurancie in the Tete province of Mozambique.

There,in 2012,I witnessed the strange burial of a woman who had died.They did not dig a grave for her,but all the same they''buried''her.You may wonder how.

It was,and still is,the most strangest of burials I have ever witnessed here and you may not have heard of any other burial like it that takes place in this modern time of ours.A small simple open shed made out of indigenous wooden poles and sticks.

On a makeshift wooden table in the shed was laid her simple coffin of reeds.Thus she was laid to rest in a dark,frigheningly quiet forest of prime,gigantic trees.I heard those present saying that ''the hyenas would come for her''.

'Do not turn back to look,just move on ahead!'',we were warned.I tried to restrain myself,but my great curiousity soon won over,and I turned to look.There was no ghost,no strange sight to see behind me except the dark,thick forbiding forest.

Later at the village,I asked why they had buried her in such a way.They told me that she had been very old and the siege of a strange illness had wasted her completely.Besides,she had been possesed,during all her days on earth,by the spirit of ''mphondoro'',the spirit of the lion.It seemed she had been a very imporntant person in her society.Their culture and tradition said such people had to be laid to rest that''special way''.

Mine collapse kills 3 in Zambezia

The tragedy occurred shortly after 08:00 on Friday.A popular group went into the mine for extraction of mineral resources,but the mining structure collapsed and fell on the miners.

Three people died and two others were seriously injured.The case occurred in Muiane lot in Gile district, Zambezia province.It is a mine that has been invaded by gold miners,an act that led the management of the mine that extracts precious stones in the region to leave the place.

On site the danger is imminent for hundreds of people trying to make a living in the mine.This is because the operations of the now defunct company,Tantalum ores,was done using machines,and that left cracks on the mountain structure.However, since the invasion of Tantalum mine,the government of Zambezia province, through the Provincial Directorate of Mineral Resources,has not yet taken any position in order to remove the miners from the site.

SURVIVAL OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES THAT BROUGTH INDEPENDENCE TO SOUTHERN AFRICA AT RISK IF THERE IS NO COOPERATION AMONGST THEM:FILIPE NYUSSI

Filipe Nyussi,President of the Mozambican ruling party,Frelimo,has called upon all the liberation movements in the Southern Africa region to influence their governments to strengthen economic cooperation between the countries to sustain their political survival.

Speaking Friday on the first day of the summit of former liberation movements in the region,which first took place in Mozambique,Nyusi expressed concern about the current economic situation and argued that economic cooperation between the parties in the region can be output to cope with the crisis.

According to Mr Nyusi,governments in the region should open the doors to entrepreneurs and other actors of the regional economy, in order to join energies aimed at finding a way out to avoid the suffocation that the situation seems to want to impose.

"If there is no question of our fellowship,our solidarity,our diplomatic political cohesion,there should be no fears about our economic relations. Economic cooperation will surely sustain our political survival, "Nyusi said.

The president of Frelimo,who is also the presdent of Mozambique, highlighted that the work culture and productivity that the former liberation movements are called to promote in their countries will strengthen the trust contract that people still celebrate with such parties

Peanuts production boosted by Olipa

Seven tons of peanut seed have just been delivered to producers based in the districts of Murrupula and Mogovolas,in Nampula province,as part of efforts aimed at ensuring meeting the targets set for the marketing year 2015/16.

The move is by Olipa - a non governmental organization working in the field of agriculture and sustainable development, which is currently deployed in the two districts supporting a total of 1500 producers.

In the same districts about 7500 indirect beneficiaries receive support in agricultural inputs in order to meet the difficulties they face in their acquisition.

According to Abdulrazaque Muinde, executive director of that organization, it is expected that producers of peanuts that received the seed can get a harvest of about 100 tons of that income product which when placed on the market will yield an approximate value of five million meticais.

The peanut crop registers high demand at the market level in Nampula province for placement in other provinces and for export to other countries.Abdulrazaque Muinde said that it is a culture that must be a major priority in efforts to reduce dependency levels that many families remain subject.

Helena Monteiro, president of the Forum of Women Producers of the agricultural industry of Nivurraco, Murrupula district, stated that the agricultural campaign is already in progress in the germination phase stimulated by the record in the last days of rainfall. "Now we dream of literacy of our members at the forum level because it is aimed at improving the management level of revenues from sales of peanut crops and savings we are making organized under revolving credit groups," said Helena Monteiro.

Abdulrazaque Muinde ensured that the ambition of women farmers in Nampula will be realized to the extent that the Olipa-Odes has a memorandum with a local organization to support adult literacy called Uataf that besides the formation of animators provides educational materials to students.

LIMPOPO NATIONAL PARK:PROBLEMATIC WILD ANIMALS TO BE SLAUGHTERED

The Gaza provincial government urges the sectors of forest and wildlife management to implement mitigation actions to lower the higher degree of human-animal conflict in the Limpopo National Park and Banhine.

Gathered this Wednesday past at its nineteenth regular session,the Gaza executive announced the death this year of four people of the more than two hundred cases of human-wildlife conflict.

Most cases involve crocodiles,buffaloes and other wild animals in dispute with men for water and food.According to the provincial government spokesman, the situation is receiving greater attention and in cases of imminent threat to human life,the animals iconsidered problematic will have to be done away with.

Bad weather to hit Gaza,Inhambane and Maputo.

Heavy rains accompanied by
thunderstorms and blasty winds
of up to 50 miles per hour,are expected to hit the provinces of Maputo,Gaza and Inhambane as of tonight.

According to a statement from Mozambique's National Institute of Meteorology,this is as a result of a low pressure system.Bad weather is also expected for the coastal areas.

Rainfall,accompanied by terrible thunderstorms,very low visibility and winds of up to 35 knots are expected,with the likelihood of big waves.The public is advised to take precautionary and safety measures.

Mozambique remains as one of the most less prosperous country in the world.

The prosperity and quality of life in Mozambique are still very poor and,in a list of 147 countries assessed by the Legatum Institute, the UK, our country sticker is in 119th position in this annual ranking, Norway is considered, for the seventh year consecutive, the most prosperous country in the world.

The list,known as"Prosperity Index" was released this week by the Legatum Institute,and aims investigating prosperity not only in the economic, but also the well-being and quality of life that each offers.

Thus,the Prosperity Index studies the performance of 142 countries in eight categories.

In the category"Economy", are assessed aspects such as the size of the labor market, unemployment rates,inflation and expectations for the economic environment of the country; in "entrepreneurship and opportunities", they are assessed aspects such as costs for starting a business in the country, spending on research and development and the economic environment of the country is favorable to entrepreneurs; the "Government" variable, are assessed aspects such as the stability of the Government and its effectiveness, corruption, separation of powers and the rule of law.

The other categories are "education",assessed are aspects such as the quality of school education and higher education and the student-teacher relationship; under the "health", the study evaluates aspects such as infant mortality, per capita expenditures of the government with the sector, the beds in hospitals and even water quality; in the chapter on "Safety" are assessed aspects such as the number of refugees and internally displaced persons and political and urban violence; with regard to "individual liberties" are seen aspects such as tolerance toward immigrants and minorities and civil liberties; and, finally, as regards the "capital", the study examines the percentages of people who perform social work, donations for establishing charities, the marriage rates and even religiosity of the population.

Rumors of demolition generate confusion in city ​​of Beira

Dozens of residents living in Xota neighborhood,Beira rioted yesterday morning opposite the Beira Municipal Council building in protest against the alleged usurpation of their land.

Drumming and screaming the residents of the neighborhood of Chota wanted explanations from the Municipality on the urbanization project that is underway in that neighborhood.

It appears that there is bad communication or else the citizens did not understand the objectives of the local authority because they think that their spaces were allegedly sold to Ugandan citizens who were willing to finance a project to build two thousand social housing facillities.

"They say they want to build many homes and who want to live in that house will have to pay a rent for 25 years.

The Mozambique that we love is a land of great contrasts from beautiful rainbows,mountains and beaches to sadly,dangeroys floods