Dutch investment expands access to water
The Netherlands will invest 23 million dollars in the form of donation for the construction of additional infrastructure for water supply to the wide region of Maputo, which should serve the current 1.1 million consumers and other 650,000 people in 25 neighborhoods.The funding was announced as part of the 40 years of cooperation in the water sector between Mozambique and the Netherlands, reported this month by holding various events, including a symposium under the theme "Delta Countries Preparing for the Future".
The project arises from the realization that, despite recent investments not all districts are covered, persisting challenges in terms of service in areas further north of the cities of Maputo and Matola.
According to a source from the Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, in the face of this situation, it prepared a project aimed at improving the water supply conditions for the current 1.1 million consumers and increase the provision and access to services for more than 650,000 people living in more than 25 districts and urban settlements of Maputo city and province;that is residents of the districts of Matola-Gare, Nwamatibwana, Matlemele, Nkobe, Zimpeto, Mucatine, Boquisso, 1st May, Khongolote, Mualaze, Km 15, Ndlavela, Green Zone, Intaka, Cumbeza, Mali, Mumemo, District 1 and 2, Mapulango, Zintava, Marracuene village, Agostinho Neto, Abel Jafar, Guava, Mutanhana and Sun Coast, in the city of Maputo and surrounding areas.
The coverage of services will therefore,if all goes according to plans, grow by more than 26 percent in urban areas by 2019, thus fulfilling the goals of the Five-Year Plan of the Government of Mozambique.
The implementation of the project is assured from the donation of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency - ORIO and provides for the implementation of water supply infrastructure, including four distribution centers with a capacity of 2,500 cubic meters each in Matola-Gare, Matlemele, Guava and Marracuene, 200 kilometers of distribution network and installation of 20,000 new household connections.
An agreement for the project gross will be signed between the two countries on the 3rd of November in Amsterdam, Netherlands, within the framework of the visit of the Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Carlos Bonete, to that country from day two. The visit comes as part of the celebrations of 40 years of cooperation between Mozambique and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands, Carlos Bonete will participate in the International Water Week taking place from 2 to 6 November. On the other hand, during the stay in the Netherlands will be visited projects of infra structures resilient to floods and shared experience of this country in the field of water management.
Discussions under this componenet shall culminate with the signing of a memorandum for the training of Mozambican technicians in the amount of 3 million euros, through the program of the Netherlands for the Development NICHE capabilities (Netherlands Initiative for Capacity Development in Higher Education ).
Accompanying the Minister on this visit will be senior cadres of the Water Sector in particular Suzana Saranga and Pedro Paulino.
"Mozambique lives an undeclared war situation"
Interview with Mozambican academic Lourenço do Rosário, one of the mediators who tried for months to bridge the gap between Renamo and the Government of Frelimo.
Lourenço do Rosário is rector of the Polytechnic University in Maputo .The Mozambican academic, Lourenço do Rosário is rector of the Polytechnic University in Maputo and one of two mediators in the ongoing negotiations to bring peace and understanding between the government of Frelimo and Renamo in the past two years.The other is the Mozambican Anglican Bishop,Dinis Sengulane.
None are official mediators because "there has never been official appointment of mediators," says Lourenço do Rosário in an interview with PUBLICO in Lisbon on the sidelines of the Second Conference on the Future of the Portuguese Language in the World System, where he was a participant on the first day.
"Renamo wanted to force the key, but the government found that the conditions for a mediator without dialogue were not exhausted." Renamo returned in recent days,and wants an external, independent mediatiors for effective dialogueu
But this dialogue is possible only after "both parties create conditions for Dhlakama to reappear freely in public life," says Lourenço do Rosário. What happened in Beira city when Dhlakamas residence was invaded and his guardsmen forcibly disarmed,he emphasized,was a provocative military operation. "Mozambique lives an undeclared war situation."
Lourenço do Rosário is rector of the Polytechnic University in Maputo .The Mozambican academic, Lourenço do Rosário is rector of the Polytechnic University in Maputo and one of two mediators in the ongoing negotiations to bring peace and understanding between the government of Frelimo and Renamo in the past two years.The other is the Mozambican Anglican Bishop,Dinis Sengulane.
None are official mediators because "there has never been official appointment of mediators," says Lourenço do Rosário in an interview with PUBLICO in Lisbon on the sidelines of the Second Conference on the Future of the Portuguese Language in the World System, where he was a participant on the first day.
"Renamo wanted to force the key, but the government found that the conditions for a mediator without dialogue were not exhausted." Renamo returned in recent days,and wants an external, independent mediatiors for effective dialogueu
But this dialogue is possible only after "both parties create conditions for Dhlakama to reappear freely in public life," says Lourenço do Rosário. What happened in Beira city when Dhlakamas residence was invaded and his guardsmen forcibly disarmed,he emphasized,was a provocative military operation. "Mozambique lives an undeclared war situation."
Betting on disclosure of laws to ensure their implementation.
The Dilemma of the effectiveness of the laws in Mozambique focuses on their weak disclosure, which contributes to they not being effectively implemented, said yesterday in Maputo, the academic Carlos Serra.
The lawyer, who spoke during the discussion seminar on the effectiveness of laws relating to environmental issues, maintains that it is not enough to have a good legal framework if it is not known who must implement the laws.
"There needs to be greater dissemination of the approved legislation, at all levels, to be better known and thus can then be implemented",he reiterated, and then noted that the second factor for failure in the effective and efficient implementation of laws has to do with its regulation.
According to Carlos Serra Jr., who is an adviser in the Ministry of Environment, there are delays in component regulation laws.However,Funds for disseminating the laws are not avaible.
Serra pointed out, however, that Mozambique has had some successes in spreading the laws, referring to the Land Law and the Family Law, which, according to him, had a positive impact in Mozambican society. "So we must consider how it led to greater awareness of these laws and do the same with other legislation, particularly laws related to natural resources."
In turn, the Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Legality, Edson da Graça Macuácua, said the central idea of the seminar is to reflect on the legal effect of legislation passed by Parliament.
"We are empowering members to improve efficiency in the disclosure, regulation and enforcement of laws on the ground, as well as their implementation," said the President of the First Committee, for whom this is the first seminar of one cycle that will be taken out by the Commission in several areas. According to the chairman of this committee, during this meeting was chosen the area of natural resources as they are the basis for development, provided their use is rational, to ensure that future generations enjoy their fruits.
The lawyer, who spoke during the discussion seminar on the effectiveness of laws relating to environmental issues, maintains that it is not enough to have a good legal framework if it is not known who must implement the laws.
"There needs to be greater dissemination of the approved legislation, at all levels, to be better known and thus can then be implemented",he reiterated, and then noted that the second factor for failure in the effective and efficient implementation of laws has to do with its regulation.
According to Carlos Serra Jr., who is an adviser in the Ministry of Environment, there are delays in component regulation laws.However,Funds for disseminating the laws are not avaible.
Serra pointed out, however, that Mozambique has had some successes in spreading the laws, referring to the Land Law and the Family Law, which, according to him, had a positive impact in Mozambican society. "So we must consider how it led to greater awareness of these laws and do the same with other legislation, particularly laws related to natural resources."
In turn, the Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Legality, Edson da Graça Macuácua, said the central idea of the seminar is to reflect on the legal effect of legislation passed by Parliament.
"We are empowering members to improve efficiency in the disclosure, regulation and enforcement of laws on the ground, as well as their implementation," said the President of the First Committee, for whom this is the first seminar of one cycle that will be taken out by the Commission in several areas. According to the chairman of this committee, during this meeting was chosen the area of natural resources as they are the basis for development, provided their use is rational, to ensure that future generations enjoy their fruits.
More than five billion dollars have been invested by public and private sector in social and economic areas, since 1995 in the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC
More than five billion dollars have been invested by public and private sector in social and economic areas, since 1995, the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC
The coordinator of the Special Development Programme (PDE) , which protects the Mozambican development corridors, said the amount was applied in port rail infrastructure, road and energy and business projects in sectors such as industry, tourism and commercial farming .
"Despite the huge investment already made since it began implementing the concept of development corridors, the CDM( Corredor de Desenvolvimento de Maputo)still has a huge potential that can be tapped through public-private partnerships," said to the press, coordinator of PDE( Programa de Desenvolvimento Especial),Odete Semião,entity attached to the ministry of Transport and communications,on the sidelines of an investor conference in Maputo
The coordinator of the Special Development Programme (PDE) , which protects the Mozambican development corridors, said the amount was applied in port rail infrastructure, road and energy and business projects in sectors such as industry, tourism and commercial farming ."Despite the huge investment already made since it began implementing the concept of development corridors, the CDM( Corredor de Desenvolvimento de Maputo)still has a huge potential that can be tapped through public-private partnerships," said to the press, coordinator of PDE( Programa de Desenvolvimento Especial),Odete Semião,entity attached to the ministry of Transport and communications,on the sidelines of an investor conference in Maputo
Success in an unlikely trade:Young man BECOMES SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR.
A young man of 30 years has become a successful entrepreneur in Mozambique,and his type of business is of the strange sort.
Mfumo owns a small company that has innovated the food industry services in Maputo. With a fleet of bicycles,the entrepreneur makes food delivery to workers whose financial conditions do not allow them to eat in restaurants.
He studied and put into practice what he learned at school.To be an entrepreneur in Mozambique, according to Dita Mfumo,does not recquire a lot of money, it is just enough to know and study the market and implement the results of your study.
Today, the entrepreneur has a company called Taxo Espress that prepares and distributes food to workers whose financial conditions do not allow them to eat in luxury places.He has in total ten bicycles and a team of over twenty cyclists to deliver different parts of Maputo city.
Mfumo says the initiative also arises from the need to make this faster and more hygienic service. The entrepreneur says others should also start selling food in ways only directed for this purpose.He said the action would reduce food poisoning.
Mfumo owns a small company that has innovated the food industry services in Maputo. With a fleet of bicycles,the entrepreneur makes food delivery to workers whose financial conditions do not allow them to eat in restaurants.
He studied and put into practice what he learned at school.To be an entrepreneur in Mozambique, according to Dita Mfumo,does not recquire a lot of money, it is just enough to know and study the market and implement the results of your study.
Today, the entrepreneur has a company called Taxo Espress that prepares and distributes food to workers whose financial conditions do not allow them to eat in luxury places.He has in total ten bicycles and a team of over twenty cyclists to deliver different parts of Maputo city.
Mfumo says the initiative also arises from the need to make this faster and more hygienic service. The entrepreneur says others should also start selling food in ways only directed for this purpose.He said the action would reduce food poisoning.
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.
Nyusi :governance with less foreign currency
No remorse at all:Filipe Nyusi.
The President of the republic said yesterday that he has no remorse,but merely acknowledges that he assumed his governance during a period of bad forex, in a context where the metical tends to lose ground against the US dollar.
Filipe Nyusi added that the reduced availability of foreign currency is due to the reduction of external assistance to the country.
The presidential confession was virtually confirming the figures released this week by the Bank of Mozambique, marking a fall of 33.9% of the metical by September of this year.
"This reality can not put us in a desperate situation. This is about to challenge us - leaders, financial system and the country - to raise the indicators towards sustainable economic development, "advanced Nyusi in a speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Millennium Bim, a gala held in Maputo and attended the by leaders of public and private entities.
Even with the high level of weakening of the metical, the President considered that the performance of the national economy remains satisfactory.
The Head of Government appealed to the evolution of macroeconomic indicators to support his position: "Inflation remains low and controlled. In September, annual inflation was 2.7% against a target of the year of 5%. The (growth) of gross domestic product in the first half was 6.3%, although below 2014 levels, "but within the path consistent with the objectives for the full year 2015,of 7.5%".
The President of the republic said yesterday that he has no remorse,but merely acknowledges that he assumed his governance during a period of bad forex, in a context where the metical tends to lose ground against the US dollar.Filipe Nyusi added that the reduced availability of foreign currency is due to the reduction of external assistance to the country.
The presidential confession was virtually confirming the figures released this week by the Bank of Mozambique, marking a fall of 33.9% of the metical by September of this year.
"This reality can not put us in a desperate situation. This is about to challenge us - leaders, financial system and the country - to raise the indicators towards sustainable economic development, "advanced Nyusi in a speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Millennium Bim, a gala held in Maputo and attended the by leaders of public and private entities.
Even with the high level of weakening of the metical, the President considered that the performance of the national economy remains satisfactory.
The Head of Government appealed to the evolution of macroeconomic indicators to support his position: "Inflation remains low and controlled. In September, annual inflation was 2.7% against a target of the year of 5%. The (growth) of gross domestic product in the first half was 6.3%, although below 2014 levels, "but within the path consistent with the objectives for the full year 2015,of 7.5%".
Cholera outbreak killed three people and hospitalized 480 since September
With the current hot season and the arrival of the rainy season, Mozambique may face an outbreak of cholera.The Ministry of Health says it has registerd cases above those estimated for the time before the arrival of the rainy season. Since September, the "disease of dirty hands" killed three people and a total of 479 were hospitalized nationwide. Most cases were diagnosed in Nampula province, particularly in the provincial capital (Nampula) and Malema district.
The health sector said, yesterday, in the usual briefing on the epidemiological situation, on the status of the cholera and found that Mozambique is on high alert. "We are on high alert status, because we already have cases of cholera in some provinces. Nampula, for example, has been declared cholera epidemic. We are certain that we must work more with sanitation issues of the environment and prevent more people from being infected with this type of disease, "said Benign Matsinhe, Deputy National Director of Public Health.
In Nampula, the Malema district is considered highly endemic, with 180 cases and three deaths, but is below the numbers recorded in the city of Nampula: 299 people in two months.
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