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Integrated community case management (iCCM) has now been implemented at scale globally. Literature to-date has focused primarily on the effectiveness of iCCM and the systems conditions required to sustain iCCM. In this study, we sought to explore opportunities taken and lost for strengthening health systems through successive iCCM programmes. We employed a systematic, embedded, multiple case study design for three countries—Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique—where Save the Children implemented...

In light of this research context and the different hypotheses that have been put forward, particularly those attributing the conflict to the dynamics of po-verty, social marginalization and the resource extrac-tion dynamics, an argument for a ‘new’ dimension of research in light of the conflict in Cabo Delgado is made. A wide range of information and analysis has been produced, but systematic analysis of broader processes of agrarian change in light of the conflict in Cabo Delgado and their...

In light of this research context and the different hypotheses that have been put forward, particularly those attributing the conflict to the dynamics of po-verty, social marginalization and the resource extrac-tion dynamics, an argument for a ‘new’ dimension of research in light of the conflict in Cabo Delgado is made. A wide range of information and analysis has been produced, but systematic analysis of broader processes of agrarian change in light of the conflict in Cabo Delgado and their...

Principal Findings What’s new? Militant attacks and security force operations in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province have claimed nearly 3,000 lives, while displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Insecurity has prompted the suspension of a massive gas project. The Islamic State (ISIS) claims ties to the insurrection. Southern African governments are lobbying to send troops. Why did it happen? Mozambican militants have been motivated by grievances against a state that they see as...

O que há de novo? Os ataques de militantes e as operações das forças de segurança na província moçambicana de Cabo Delgado já custaram praticamente 3000 vidas e deslocaram centenas de milhares de pessoas. A insegurança levou à suspensão de um gigantesco projeto de gás. O Estado Islâmico (ISIS) reivindica laços com a insurreição. Os governos do Sul de Africa estão a exercer pressão para o envio de tropas. Porque aconteceu? Os militantes moçambicanos foram motivados pelo descontentamento em...

Figuring out “what is the work?” we actually do sounds like a simple task, but in fact, it’s surprisingly difficult.

Mais de 30.500 pessoas que abandonaram as suas casas devido aos ataques terroristas na vila de Palma em Março último continuam a enfrentar dificuldades de alimentação e de abrigo nos centros de acolhimento. A maioria está no centro de trânsito de Pemba e outros nos campos de deslocados de Metuge. A Matriz de Monitoria de Deslocamentos da Organização Internacional para as Migrações (OIM) continua a registar a chegada diária de deslocados que fogem da insegurança no norte de Cabo Delgado. As...

Falando em representação da Governadora da Província de Gaza, a Directora Provincial de Cultura e Turismo denunciou o velho problema de usurpação e acumulação de terra para fins de especulação latifundiária. Trata-se de uma prática comum em Moçambique em que as elites económicas e políticas se apropriam de terras valiosas e ficam à espera do melhor momento para fazer a transacção, preferencialmente com o capital estrangeiro. A representante da Governadora de Gaza disse que esta prática...

Depois da cerimónia inaugural de quinta-feira na Província de Gaza, ontem, sexta-feira, 07 de Maio, foi a vez de Inhambane acolher o debate público no âmbito da auscultação de jovens sobre a revisão da Política Nacional de Terras. Falando na abertura da cerimónia, o Director dos Serviços Provinciais do Ambiente, em representação da Secretária de Estado da Província de Inhambane, defendeu que um dos desafios que a Inhambane enfrenta é o aumento do número de população perante um recurso terra...

Since October 2017, Cabo Delgado Province has been an arena of armed conflict, translating into destruction and looting, abductions and killings of civilian populations. The conflict intensified throughout 2020, with attacks on district headquarters villages, leading to the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of individuals. The history of armed conflicts in Mozambique shows that they have had enormous impacts on the civilian population, placed between two opposing groups: rebel...

This exploratory research set out to survey possible points of entry for POTENCIAR programme interventions and gather methodological insights for the ethnographic research component of the programme’s analytical strategy. It wil be used alongside other analytical studies undertaken by POTENCIAR (including the health sector analysis and the political economy analyses) to identify and design programme interventions. Following an inductive method, the team sought to assess the conditions and...

Illicit flows are a major part of the political and economic landscape of northern Mozambique. In South Africa, the trade in poached abalone and the trafficking of synthetic drug still remain joined today. The impact that heroin capsules have had in Durban in terms of violence, profitability and local demand for heroin. How illicit gold from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo flows through Uganda

"Como é que um corrupto pode lutar contra si mesmo? É preciso uma espécie de revolução." As ameaças do governo. A guerra. E o deslocado que disparou contra insurgentes. Entrevista ao Bispo de Pemba.

French energy giant Total SE suspended its $20 billion liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique indefinitely due to an escalation of violence in the area, including a March attack by Islamic State-linked militants.

Following the recent attacks in Palma Sede, DTM teams in Nangade, Mueda, Montepuez, and Pemba districts continue to register significant rise in IDP arrivals since 27 March. On 26 April 2021, an estimated number of 1,118 IDPs were registered in the four districts bringing the total number of IDPs to 27,913 people who have been displaced from Palma. IDPs continue to arrive in Nangade on foot and by bus from Nangade to Mueda, Montepuez, and Pemba.

In its first step to exit the coal business, Brazilian mining firm Vale will acquire all stakes held by Japanese trading house Mitsui in the Moatize coal mine and Nacala corridor coal infrastructure in Mozambique.

Cenário Fiscal de Médio Prazo (CFMP 2022-2024), instrumento que marca o início do ciclo de planificação e orçamentação, avança cenários preocupantes em relação à evolução da dívida pública de Moçambique. Por exemplo, as projecções relativas às despesas públicas mostram que os encargos com a dívida pública, isto é, os pagamentos de juros relacionados com o serviço da dívida, passarão de 27.114,8 milhões de meticais em 2021 para 38.731,8 milhões de meticais em 2022, evidenciando um crescimento...

English Situation Report on Mozambique about Coordination, Protection and Human Rights, Epidemic and more; published on 21 Apr 2021 by UNHCR

Insurgents struck throughout Nangade district last week, nearly isolating Nangade town in a series of attacks. On 1 March, insurgents began setting roadblocks on the R763 south of Nangade town, cutting off the main route between Nangade and Mueda. The same day, insurgents killed two farmers working near the village of Eduardo Mondlane, just east of Litingina. On 2 March, more insurgent roadblocks sprang up near Muiha village, in the northwest of Nangade district, near where the borders...

A visual explanation of how Mozambique’s islamist group al-Shabab has grown over the years in the northern Cabo Delgado province.