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After suffering decades of under-investment, government negligence, and crushing poverty, the province of Cabo Delgado, the poorest in Mozambique, is now the site of a raging insurgency. Over 1,300 civilians have been killed; another 500,000 have been displaced, and towns and villages have been left in ruins. Fighting has intensified since an armed group locally known as Al-Shabaab attacked the northern port town of Mocímboa da Praia in October 2017. In a series of attacks, Al-Shabaab has...

After suffering decades of under-investment, government negligence, and crushing poverty, the province of Cabo Delgado, the poorest in Mozambique, is now the site of a raging insurgency. Over 1,300 civilians have been killed; another 500,000 have been displaced, and towns and villages have been left in ruins. Fighting has intensified since an armed group locally known as Al-Shabaab attacked the northern port town of Mocímboa da Praia in October 2017. In a series of attacks, Al-Shabaab has...

In This Report: Analysis of the IS claim of the Palma attack in the context of the overall relationship between IS and the Cabo Delgado insurgency Discussion of growing tensions between displaced people, host communities, and aid organizations in districts with growing displaced populations Update on international involvement in the Cabo Delgado conflict and analysis of the role that South African companies Dyck Advisory Group and Paramount Group play in the conflict

O presente estudo visa identificar e analisar as narrativas dominantes de deslegitimação do papel da sociedade civil e sua contribuição para a obstrução do espaço cívico em Moçambique. O estudo também analisa como essas narrativas são disseminadas e as dinâmicas de poder que as sustentam. O estudo pretende providenciar estratégias que se contrapõem às narrativas desqualificadoras, e na construção de novas narrativas. Para o efeito, foram analisadas peças informativas ou opinativas nas redes...

Mozambique’s climate is characterized by relatively uniform temperatures across the country and a north-south rainfall gradient which results in higher more reliable rainfall amounts in the North, and lower more variable rainfall amounts in the South Historical climate analysis for the country shows that temperatures are already increasing and rainfall trends are dominated by year-to-year variability. Livelihoods and agricultural production systems are already being affected by the...

On 22 February, insurgents conducted two attacks along the border between Nangade and Mocimboa da Praia districts. The first, a morning attack, took place at Ingalonga, Nangade district. Insurgents beheaded two people there. Later that day, across the border in Mitope, Mocimboa da Praia district, insurgents captured three women and three men who had been working in their fields. One woman was released, and the three men were beheaded. Local militias deployed to the area in response, but no...

To understand how land-use frontiers emerge, we studied the actors driving investments in Niassa province, Mozambique. Our ethnographic research over 2017-2018 among commercial agriculture and forestry investors shows that successive waves of actors with different backgrounds, motives and business practices, arrived in Niassa to establish farms or plantations yet repeatedly failed. Waves come and go but leave sediments – legacies – that add up to gradually build the conditions for a frontier...

A review of key developments in 2020 with a look toward trends to watch in the coming year.

Neste artigo, usamos 'diários de governação' para analisar as interações entre pessoas pobres e autoridades em contextos de Fragilidade, Conflitos e Violência (FCVAS) em Moçambique. Questionamos os significados de empoderamento e responsabilização, sob ponto de vista de pessoas pobres e marginalizadas, e procuramos perceber como essas pessoas vêem as instituições que as governam, incluindo as que as providenciam bens e serviços básicos, entre os quais os de saúde e segurança. As conclusões...

The global pandemic has taken a heavy toll on Mozambique’s economy. In 2020, the country experienced its first economic contraction in nearly three decades. COVID-19 (coronavirus) hit the economy as it was attempting to recover from the slowdown triggered by the hidden debt crisis and the tropical cyclones in 2019. Real gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 1.3 percent in 2020, compared to a pre-Covid estimate of 4.3 percent, as external demand declined, domestic lockdown measures...

The global pandemic has taken a heavy toll on Mozambique’s economy. In 2020, the country experienced its first economic contraction in nearly three decades. COVID-19 (coronavirus) hit the economy as it was attempting to recover from the slowdown triggered by the hidden debt crisis and the tropical cyclones in 2019. Real gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 1.3 percent in 2020, compared to a pre-Covid estimate of 4.3 percent, as external demand declined, domestic lockdown measures...

In Mozambique, development programmes have traditionally drawn on music as a means to promote social transformation by educating citizens on key social development issues. Shifting the focus from music as a teaching medium to music as a rich source of information can provide vital insights into public opinion and political ideas, and significantly impact the development of citizen engagement projects. Maximum gains for development and civil society agencies can be achieved by mainstreaming...

The Bank Group’s Country Strategy Paper (CSP) 2018-2022 for Mozambique was approved by the Boards of Executive Directors in June 2018. The CSP was prepared in a context of economic downturn triggered by the deterioration of the country's financial situation and scaleddown dialogue between the Government of Mozambique (GoM) and Donor Partners (DPs). The CSP was anchored on two pillars: (i) "Development of infrastructure to enable transformative, inclusive growth and job creation", and (ii)...

No âmbito do processo de Revisão da Política Nacional de Terras e para responder aos consensus alcançados na IX Sessão do Forum de Consulta sobre as Terras (FCT) que incluiam a viabilização da transmissibilidade dos títulos de uso e aproveitamento da terra (DUAT) tornando este processo mais flexível, foi encomendado o presente estudo que tem como objectivo aferir, dentro do actual quadro legal, a viabilidade, sob o ponto de vista de oferta e da procura, da possibilidade de se implementar um...

A actual Proposta do Orçamento do Estado (POE) 2021 é a segunda para o quinquénio 2020-2024 e foi elaborada num contexto de transformações económicas e sociais impostas por um novo “normal” provocado pela pandemia da COVID-19, que resultou na maior recessão mundial estimada em cerca de -4.9% para 2020. Essa recessão foi causada pelas medidas de contenção que resultaram na paralisação da actividade económica em grande parte das economias. Em linha com as actuais tendências da economia...

Este relatório de pesquisa buscou especificamente identificar no contexto mundial, regional e nacional as estratégias e as políticas públicas relativamente à situação das raparigas e mulheres, analisar as narrativas e discursos das organizações da sociedade civil e instituições de pesquisa, tanto as que têm como foco os direitos humanos, como as que definem como objecto a promoção da igualdade de género, e analisar o conteúdo dos media nacionais sobre a Covid-19, com destaque para as...

This report builds on the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research project Navigating Civic Space, which seeks to analyze the extent to which COVID-19 is contributing to the opening or closing of space for civic action in three countries, namely Mozambique, Nigeria and Pakistan. Focusing on Mozambique, the report uses theoretical and methodological tools produced by the work stream and is essentially structured around the three main research questions: What is known about...

The 2021 edition of the African Economic Outlook focuses on debt resolution, governance, and growth in Africa. Chapter 1 examines Africa’s growth performance and outlook amid the COVID–19 pandemic. The chapter emphasizes policy options to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the short, medium, and long terms. Chapter 2 explores the causes and consequences of Africa’s debt dynamics by showing how the changing structure and composition of debt create...

– O PSSB é um programa fundamental para redução da pobreza e da desigualdade em Moçambique. – O aumento do valor das transferências para os agregados familiares beneficiários possui capacidade de reduzir a pobreza e a desigualdade no país. – Outra forma de melhorar estes indicadores é através da expansão do benefício para todas as famílias elegíveis, pois apenas um terço delas são beneficiadas atualmente. – A atualização dos valores das transferências monetárias distribuídas através do PSSB...

As in previous editions, the Statistical Yearbook 2020 contains information that makes it possible to draw a synthetic profile of Mozambique ́s socioeconomic reality in its multiple domains. It is part of the series of publications that the National Institute of Statistics (INE), in its mission to provide Mozambican society with statistical information that allows the knowledge of the reality of the country, makes available to users and the general public as a vehicle for the dissemination...