The FIRST LADY of the Republic, Isaura Nyusi, said it was important that Mozambicans act energetically in the fight against early marriages, given the consequences that the practice is in the lives of victims, with particular emphasis on the girl.
Nyusi expressed this concern at the Health Sciences Institute of Chimoio, where she met with women from Chimoio district at the end of a three-day working visit last week made to the province. At the time Isaura Nyusi maintained that early marriages call into question the future of girls, arguing that this is a nation wide issue whose solution should be the responsibility of all segments of society, who fit the task of raising awareness among promoters to the urgent need for change in mentality.
Despite the efforts undertaken by government authorities in the emancipation of women in Mozambique, Isaura Nyusi said cases of girls who drop out of school to meet forced marriages still persist, often supported by their own parents, a situation which obstructs the future of this vital segment the in country's development.
"We must act quickly against these practices in order to insure the future of girls so that they can have academic training and thus contribute to social and economic growth of the country," said the First Lady of the Republic, noting that greater focus should be given to parents,who are considered the main promoters of the phenomenon.
At the event were reaveled some of the causes that are behind the early marriages, most of which are of economic and financial context. In fact, some participants at the meeting accused many that many parents prefer "to sell their daughters" charging exorbitant amounts to in-laws as a way to seek to get rid of the poverty problem that they have.
Isaura Nyussi considers early marriages as a phenomenon whose combat should be without complacency, drawing attention to the need for this task from the family and then reach all segments of society and should not be only mothers and girls.She highlighted the key role that mothers have been playing in the protection of girls in their involvement in early marriages, often at war with their parents, instead of bringing up their daughters prefer to get them into early,often promiscuous,marital unions.
TELENOVELAS ARE HARMFUL
Another factor identified and considered stimulating for early marriages is the proliferation of immoral soap operas and movies that are aired on most TV channels, just Agnes Rosse, a teacher with over 50 years of age,said.For her soap operas that are displayed stimulate prostitution, sexual promiscuity and contribute to early marriages, especially in urban areas, where the assimilation of Western cultural habits has led to an adverse effect on social morality that is intended to be built in the country.
In a message presented at the meeting, women of Manica welcome the development of the situation in the province. "We women in Manica province welcome the efforts undertaken by government authorities in the empowerment of women and, through it,came to be no exclusive space for men,and man and woman can cohabit in a professional relationship.That's where we can see women operate tractors, become drivers and giving their contribution to the country's growth, "said the women of Manica, in a message presented to the First Lady. In the city of Chimoio, last leg of her trip to Manica, Isaura Nyusi visited the Provincial Nursery,at the Centro de Saúde 1.º de Maio and inaugurated the local maternity, which will be a model with respect to humanized deliveries, under a project which is being implemented with funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Nyusi expressed this concern at the Health Sciences Institute of Chimoio, where she met with women from Chimoio district at the end of a three-day working visit last week made to the province. At the time Isaura Nyusi maintained that early marriages call into question the future of girls, arguing that this is a nation wide issue whose solution should be the responsibility of all segments of society, who fit the task of raising awareness among promoters to the urgent need for change in mentality.
Despite the efforts undertaken by government authorities in the emancipation of women in Mozambique, Isaura Nyusi said cases of girls who drop out of school to meet forced marriages still persist, often supported by their own parents, a situation which obstructs the future of this vital segment the in country's development.
"We must act quickly against these practices in order to insure the future of girls so that they can have academic training and thus contribute to social and economic growth of the country," said the First Lady of the Republic, noting that greater focus should be given to parents,who are considered the main promoters of the phenomenon.
At the event were reaveled some of the causes that are behind the early marriages, most of which are of economic and financial context. In fact, some participants at the meeting accused many that many parents prefer "to sell their daughters" charging exorbitant amounts to in-laws as a way to seek to get rid of the poverty problem that they have.
Isaura Nyussi considers early marriages as a phenomenon whose combat should be without complacency, drawing attention to the need for this task from the family and then reach all segments of society and should not be only mothers and girls.She highlighted the key role that mothers have been playing in the protection of girls in their involvement in early marriages, often at war with their parents, instead of bringing up their daughters prefer to get them into early,often promiscuous,marital unions.
TELENOVELAS ARE HARMFUL
Another factor identified and considered stimulating for early marriages is the proliferation of immoral soap operas and movies that are aired on most TV channels, just Agnes Rosse, a teacher with over 50 years of age,said.For her soap operas that are displayed stimulate prostitution, sexual promiscuity and contribute to early marriages, especially in urban areas, where the assimilation of Western cultural habits has led to an adverse effect on social morality that is intended to be built in the country.
In a message presented at the meeting, women of Manica welcome the development of the situation in the province. "We women in Manica province welcome the efforts undertaken by government authorities in the empowerment of women and, through it,came to be no exclusive space for men,and man and woman can cohabit in a professional relationship.That's where we can see women operate tractors, become drivers and giving their contribution to the country's growth, "said the women of Manica, in a message presented to the First Lady. In the city of Chimoio, last leg of her trip to Manica, Isaura Nyusi visited the Provincial Nursery,at the Centro de Saúde 1.º de Maio and inaugurated the local maternity, which will be a model with respect to humanized deliveries, under a project which is being implemented with funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that between the 1st of January to September of this year, diarrheal diseases killed a total of 388 people in the country.
THE governments of Mozambique and South Africa are working on Ressano Garcia border pass to run 24 hours a day to further facilitate the movement of people and goods in what is the main and the busiest border crossing between the two countries. 
In November 2014, the National Assembly approved the Right to Information Law and in the second week of October 2015 the government approved its regulations.
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.
