Man murders own daughter in Maputo city

An individual is in the hands of
the police in the district of Marracuene,Maputo province,
charged with murdering his own
daughter who is only a year old.

The murder happened after his wife had left the house,following an argument,leaving the child under the father's responsibility.

The indicted states that he could not bear the loneliness,coupled with the responsibility of taking care of two small children,the one-year he murdered,and the ldest of two years and three months.

The indicted,this time in the cells of the PRM in Maputo province,says he is sorry about the act he committed.


Crime is rife in Maputo city.Even in recent days,in Maputo province, police detained two individuals 23 years of age,caught in possession of two rinho horns.

Extinction of a species:Elephant poaching on the rise in Moza.

Poaching of trophy animals,most notably the elephant,is to observe a sharp rise due to the increase of the monetary value on the Asian black market.

As a result,this species is in severe danger of disappearing in the country. 

About eight elephants are killed daily by poachers all over the country and this practice is intensifying in the reserves or parks located in the northern and central regions,particularly in Niassa reserve,Quirimbas National Park and Gile Reserve,in the Niassa,Cabo Delgado and Zambezia provinces respectively.This sitution worries,increasingly,managers of national parks.

For example,recently there was a meeting in Xai-Xai,Gaza province,where several entities of the southern region as authorities,judges,prosecutors,tourism managers and others deeply discussed the poaching and trafficking of elephants and rhinos,and there was remarkable doubt,for example,about the existence of rhinos in national reserves. 

As witnessed on site,there was a serious and profound contradiction between the major players in flora conservation sector and fauna that claim,on the one hand,that you can see traces of the presence of that animal in the Limpopo National Park and others defend themselves, almost assure, that this animal no longer exist in the country.

At the time,Andrew Lumbe,South African fiscal authourities,said he has knowledge that there are two rhinos in that country that sometimes enter the country.But he said he is concerned about their safety.

Regarding the elephant,the participants were unanimous in considering that in the last three years have seen a growing demand for its trophies and pointed out that this phenomenon is due to ivory prices in the Asian black market,where the cost is between 1,000 to $ 1,200 per kilogram of crude ivory.

Because of this high demand,it was revealed that about 90 percent of the elephant population that exists in the country is in a situation of insecurity and only 10 are living in peace.

That the population of elephants at this time is in a situation of insecurity is one that is evident in the provinces of Niassa and Cabo Delgado, while the southern region is not suffering from any threat. According to Abel Nhabanga,fauna expert,the situation is more worrying in Niassa National Reserve where even with the new measures the phenomenon tends to increase. 

To address this situation, Nhabanga said investments were made in the inspection sector, as the acquisition of an airplane for surveillance.

Even so,the current human resources are less than desirable.Niassa Reserve is the largest conservation area that exists in the country with 42 000 square kilometers and consevationists allocated to that conservation area, as well as watch over hunters also are on the trail of other criminals like those who develop the practice of cutting Illegal wood,as well as mining.

Abel Nhabanga said there is work ongoing in different reserves and parks in the country. 

Proof of this, only in the province of Niassa,were convicted this year,eight poachers,including six foreigners,with sentences ranging from 1-10 years in prison.

In Pemba was recently arrested one of the largest elephant hunters in Niassa Reserve in possession of some trophies.An individual of Tanzanian nationality coordinated a very extensive network. One of the condemned is the son of this, individual.


GAPS IN THE LAW


Parliament approved last year, 2014, the law that condemns poaching in the country. 

A year later,it was found that it has some shortcomings, particularly on how it is treated the individual who are found in possesion of trophies of the big 5.

It is understood that there is little ambiguity about this aspect because the law condemns to prison sentences individuals who are found to hunt while those who are found to carry only pay a fine.

As a result,many offenders use Mozambique as a hunting ground and running for evacuation of their merchandise.However, to reverse the scenario is in progress the review process of some articles of this law in order to find better ways to discipline the offenders.

It is a review that will allow that individuals who are found with trophies is are punishable as a primary offenders.

For example,the bad guys that draw the horns of rhinoceros in South Africa,using Mozambique as a getway because they know that our law opens some gaps, he said.

To Nhabanga constituents should receive more aggressive penalties because it is they who encourage Mozambicans to hunt down the elephants and these lead to the black market where they earn more. According to a source this law is ongoing its regulation.The consultancy has already been made.


FRUSTRATION

CONSERVATION AUTHOURITIES of national reserves are Frustrated with the measures that are taken by the courts because when they send notices to justice institution that some detainees have been freed allegedly because there is not enough data that may lead to conviction.

Sometimes,the few who are convicted fail to pay the fines because they are not located,others because they can not afford.

Last year got about 46 million meticais corresponding to fines imposed on offenders,but only received two thousand meticais instead.

This year it was expected to receive 887,000 meticais, but the state coffers only got 60,000 meticais.


For the fiscal situation is frustrating and demotivating. José Zavale, ,Limpopo National Park,said that center has a researchp unit that claim that in the near future to improve its research capacity to consolidate evidence. 

"The intention is to apply more in patrol activities. We want to make ambushes to catch t.poachers on the ground to hunt, even to transport them with their instruments. In the future we think of put cameras to not only help monitor all movement of criminals in the park, but also to make the registration of animals'',he said.

In another development, Zavale said that the board has been experiencing an increase in subsistence hunting levels.

It is the practice in some communities using steel cable,to snare animals for consumption or marketing.This is due to drought in some districts of Gaza province.

To Zavale the situation is worrying because this hunt is practiced every day by several individuals who seek to ensure the livelihood of their families.

"Imagine that a community of 20 hunters,every day go in the bush looking for animals.How many are we losing a month, six months or even a year!This year we captured 61 hunters''',he said.

However,in the implementation of operations "Nature" and "Lebombo," the Police for the Protection of Natural Resources and Environment (PPRNMA) in coordination with the game park authouriries kept the reserves neutralized, several gangs of poachers,illegal transporters of wildlife products, seized vehicles, firearms, traps, ivory horns, horns of rhinos and other probited wildlife products .

PPRNMA arrested 66 poachers this year,of which 54 are Mozambicans,five Chinese,four Vietnamese, two Koreans and a South African.

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.

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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.

Supposed patrol group assaults a citizen

A citizen was assaulted by an alleged patrol group of residents in Tsalala neighborhood in the city of Matola.

He is resident in Tchumene neighborhood, but during wrong time was stopped in the wrong place at the Tsalala district, municipality of Matola and assaulted by suspected members of community police armed with machetes.

The relatives of the victim are outraged with the situation and accuse the local leader of doing nothing to solve the case and are threatening their family.

The head of the neibhourhood denies the charges and says that sometimes he is not aware of patrols carried out in his neighborhood and that the citizen was mistaken for a criminal. 

It is in response to the alleged lack of police raids that residents of some neighborhoods do patrols,usually during the dead of night.

MINOR ALBINO MURDER: INDIVIDUAL ARRESTED IN Balama, CABO DELGADO

A citizen was detained by the police of the Republic of Mozambique in Balama district of Cabo Delgado,charged with murdering and extracting genitals including hair, from a minor carrier of albinism.

The case was denounced by the wife of detainee, who claims to have lived moments of panic to see her husband bearing genital organ of a human being.

ROBBERS FATALLY SHOT IN NACALA PORTO

In Nacala-Porto, police fatally shot three members of a gang that had robbed a tourist resort, in broad daylight,stealing large sums of money.

During the exchange of fire 4 escaped and one has been admitted to the District Hospital of Nacala.

At mid-morning, according to eyewitnesses a gang of eight bandits subdued the guard of a tourist resort located on the beach of Ferdinand Veloso armed with two weapons of the AKM type and a pistol,some masked and dreadlocked and assaulted the establishment requiring the code for the safe and money.

As there was resistance from the owner,their solution was to shoot him in the abdomen.He has been admitted to the district hospital in Nacala.

He underwent surgery because the bullet was found still lodged in the bladder region, the medical team explained,saying the state of the patient is still critical.

Once notified,the police unleashed a furious,well coordinated hunt for the robbers,and it was a chase and exchange of fire that followed.

The bad guys were shooting at the police,and as a result three of the eight robbers ended up losing their lives,dying on the spot,the other four managed to get away carrying the stolen money and a gun.

However the other one wounded once fell into the clutches of PRM.
At the hospital even after dodging death,he denied his involvement.

The police says that this is a dangerous group from the city of Maputo and promises to go hunting the four escapees.

Robbers arrested in Beira

PRM in Beira neutralized two individuals who are part of a group that staged robberies using firearms PRM seized a pistol and 20 ammunition held by the criminals.

More than 400 arrested for poaching

From 2014 to date at least 434 people were arrested in Mozambique as a result of poaching.

Poaching, a phenomenon that seems to have taken deep root in the country, was examined today at the 39th session of the Council of Ministers.

According to the government spokesman, Mouzinho Saide, of the 434 people, 158 were held in 2014 and the other 276 this year.

Poaching is motivated by the large sums paid by buyers and in this game have been used large- caliber weapons, including weapons of war such as the AK-47, often with forged documents and altered registration numbers, explained Saide, speaking at a briefing at the end of the session.

According to data presented at the time by the spokesman, this year were seized 75 kg of rhino horns and 1124 kg of raw ivory, having been destroyed by incineration, 1935 kg of rhino horns and 2199 kg of raw ivory as well as 236 kilograms of worked ivory. Later this year were removed 5,110 traps, used by hunters in their actions, and seized 55 firearms.

Three individuals caught in possession of human bones

Police in Massinga district stopped, last night, three individuals found in possession of human bones - allegedly of an albino person - which they wanted to sell in Cabo Delgado.

If true, it is the case to say that the hunting of people with albinism continues, and this time the playing field was the province of Inhambane, this time with a different "modus operandi".

According to police sources, the three individuals are engaged in the mining activity in the province of Cabo Delgado. They went to the Massinga district, where they exhumed the body of an albino man and took the bones, with the aim of selling them.

The Individuals had been informed of the existence of a grave where the remains of an albino lay,and the information was provided by a family of criminals, in the Malova region, Massinga.

Buchili confronted with complaints about crime in Nacala-porto

Residents of Nacala port(Nacala Porto)in Nampula, asked on Wednesday, the Attorney General of the Republic, Beatriz Buchili, to intervene and reduce the crime wave plaguing that city.

The complaints of the population were raised during a meeting between the prosecutor and the local authorities, to address the crime problem.

Some speakers deplored the behavior of some police officers, accusing them of releasing crimes suspects without any foundation.

"In some stations, we know and we can say that the police let loose criminals without any justification to the population therefore increasing the level of impunity that exists in Nacala-porto", denounced Luis Lucio.

Other speakers raised the issue of persecution of albinos, a phenomenon that in recent times has been reported in the province of Nampula and Nacala-porto in particular.

One dead, two injured in attempted kidnapping in Maputo

Maputo lived a moment of panic yesterday.Frustrated criminal action took the life of an innocent citizen and injured two other people.

The drama began some some time after 16:00 when three strangers tried to kidnap the owner of Socoal, a shop selling electrical goods and medical supplies located at the corner between the Guerra Popular avenues and Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo.

On site, the kidnappers fired more than five shots to create panic and take the victim easily.They shot dead the security guard who was on duty and also shot and injured a customer who was shopping.They ended up confusing the victim to be,namely the owner of the shop,and took the property manager.

SOURCE:O Pais.

Seven robbers arrested by police in Maputo

Seven youths aged between 24 and 34, allegedly belonging to two gangs that were engaged in raids in several districts of Maputo city and province. The first group of five young men was detained by police on the outskirts of the capital, after having committed an assault,in which they allegedly took about two million meticais from informal money changers in Ressano Garcia, in Maputo province. The group in question used two weapons - a pistol and AK47 - which are now in the hands of the police. Part of this group is a young man who had been arrested in January and charged with kidnapping, but later escaped from the Civil Prison in the city of Maputo. Another group of two young men armed with machetes was neutralized in the neighborhood Hulene by the population during a robbery, and one of the elements escaped lynching thanks to the prompt intervention of the police.

Unknown individuals exhume corpse from grave.

Unknown individuals dug up a grave in the cemetery of Namacula in Lichinga,exhumed and removed the genitals of the corpse.The case took place early on Tuesday, and the Police of the Republic of Mozambique in that local are said to be''investigating''.

SOURCE:TVM

Deputies enable revision of the Code of Criminal Procedure

The Committee on Constitutional Affairs,Human Rights and Legality already has a mandate to revise the Code of Criminal Procedure (CPP). It is an essential tool for the application of the new Penal Code, adopted in 2014, during the eighth legislature.In fact, the lack of an updated CPP is creating difficulties in implementing the new Criminal Code,which,although reflects the reality of the country,lacks regulations to effectively respond to the needs of the population.It was no accident that the three parliamentary groups in particular Frelimo, Renamo and MDM approved by consensus the resolution empowering the First Committee to review the CPP, a legacy of the colonial period.Frelimo and Renamo, however,suggest the extension of the period - September to December 2016 - for the specialized committee to present to the plenary the draft revision of the Criminal Procedure Code.Just yesterday,deputies mandated the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Legality to revise the Code of Execution of Penalties and custodial and non-custodial measures of Liberty. This is a code regulating the application of penalties and alternative measures to prison, whose law was passed by Parliament last year

Police say they are investigating cases of abduction that occurred last week

Police say they are on the trail of the
criminals who last week abducted two
citizens in the city of Maputo. The PRM
made this pronouncement yesterday, in
the usual press briefing, which
addressed several crimes that occurred during date 12 to 18 of this month.
Among the occurannces especially
armed robbery and kidnapping, crimes
that are part of the day-to-day violent life of Maputo city as
well as road accidents.Of the crimes
occurred, the police considered "relevant" three, in particular two
kidnappings and one case of murder. Cases of
abduction were registerd on the 13th of
this month, one at 7:00 a.m., in broad
daylight, on the promenade of FPLM,
and another at 19:00, at the Polana Cimento neighborhood. Police say the
two cases are under investigation.
"Several steps were carried out, to
clarify. We can not have information now, so
do not misrepresent the investigation.
We shall speak out as soon as the investigation is completed, "said
Orlando Mudumane, police spokesman,
in the police command centre of Maputo.

"Machete men,''arrested in Maputo.

Six (6) individuals are in police cells since last weekend suspected of belonging to a group that terrorizes the Maxaquene and Polana Caniço neighborhoods on the outskirts of Maputo. The individuals concerned are being accused of belonging to the infamous gang known as ''machete-men" who in night raids assault people and
homes using machetes, axes and other
blunt instruments. The suspects are young with age ranging between 14
and 20 years, and virtually control the neighborhoods in question, with
almost daily performances.

Mob justice:Criminal burnt to death in Chimoi

Residents of the neighborhood of 7
de Abril in the city of Chimoio beat and burned alive in the early hours of Monday (12) a young man accused of belonging to a dangerous gang made up of five individuals, who staged robberies and several other crimes in the city of Chimoio . The individual,whose identity is unknown, fell into the meshes of the populace when together with his accomplices, they tried to steal a car March, resorting to achieve their attempts, to blunt instruments to
deliver blows to the owner who requested relief and the population came to his aid and ended up surprising the unlucky lynched.