Mozambique

In this video grab provided by Television Mozambique, people stand on Monday, April 8, 2024, next to a boat that local media say capsized on Sunday off Mozambique's northern coast in Nampula province. The makeshift ferry reportedly was overcrowded with residents fleeing a feared cholera outbreak when it capsized, killing at least 98 people including children, media reports say. (Television Mozambique via AP)

Overcrowded ferry capsizes off Mozambique’s coast, leaving at least 98 dead, media reports say

Media outlets in Mozambique say that a makeshift ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a feared cholera outbreak has capsized off the country’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people including children.

FILE - In this image made from video, a woman with children watch as Rwandan soldiers patrol in the village of Mute, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. A surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province has left more than 70 children missing, with fears they may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants as thousands of families fled the violence, local authorities and a group of aid agencies said. (AP Photo/Marc Hoogsteyns, File)

UN raises alert for 780,000 people displaced in Mozambique, most due to violence in north

FILE - In this image made from video, a Mozambican soldier rides on an armored vehicle at the airport in Mocimboa da Praia, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, Aug. 9, 2021. Aid agencies and local authorities say a surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in northern Mozambique has left more than 70 children missing and caused 100,000 people to flee their homes. There are fears the children may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants, the aids groups said in a report on Wednesday March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Marc Hoogsteyns, File)

New attacks by IS-linked group in Mozambique leave over 70 children missing. Thousands have fled

Egypt's Mohamed Salah wait to take a penalty, which he scores for his side second goal of the game during the African Cup of Nations Group B soccer match between Egypt and Mozambique in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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Illustration about the rise of Cholera cases. (Illustration/Amelia Bates, Grist via AP)

As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise

Mozambique ferry accident leaves more than 90 people dead including children, local media say

Media outlets in Mozambique say that a makeshift ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a feared cholera outbreak capsized off the country’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people including children.

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2 dead in Mozambique protests over local election results, watchdog says. Police say 70 arrested

A corruption watchdog group in Mozambique says a police officer and a civilian have been killed during protests over disputed local election results.

Illustration about malaria and mosquitoes transmitting the disease. (Illustration/Amelia Bates, Grist via AP)

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In this courtroom sketch Mozambique's former finance minister Manuel Chang, center, pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court, in New York, Thursday, July 13, 2023, in connection with a $2-billion corruption and money laundering scandal that prosecutors said defrauded American investors and threatened to further destabilize the economy of one of the world's poorest countries. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Former Mozambique finance minister pleads not guilty in US federal court over $2 billion scandal

Mozambique’s former finance minister has pleaded not guilty in U.S. federal court in connection with a $2 billion corruption and money laundering scandal.

FILE - Former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang sits in court in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Jan. 8, 2019. Chang who has been held in prison in South Africa for nearly five years was on Wednesday July 12, 2023 extradited to the United States to face a fraud and corruption trial over a $2 billion scandal involving fraudulent government loans. (AP Photo/Phill Magakoe, File)

Former Mozambique finance minister is extradited to the US to face trial over $2 billion scandal

Former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang has been extradited to the U.S. to face a fraud and corruption trial over a $2 billion scandal involving fraudulent government loans.

FILE - Former Mozambican finance minister, Manuel Chang, appears in court in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Jan. 8, 2019. Chang faces imminent extradition to the U.S. to face corruption charges after spending four years in a South African prison. Chang was in 2018 arrested in South Africa on a U.S. warrant of arrest for charges related to his role in a $2 billion debt scandal that plunged Mozambique into a financial crisis when it was uncovered in 2016. (AP Photo/Phill Magakoe, File)

Former Mozambique finance minister loses last appeal, set for extradition to US over $2B scandal

Mozambique’s former finance minister has lost a last-ditch legal appeal in South Africa and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned companies.

A mother prepares a meal for her family in a displacement camp on the bank of a flooded rice paddy near the village of Nicoadala, Zambezia province, Mozambique, Friday, March 24, 2023. Weeks after a massive cyclone hit Mozambique for a second time, the still-flooded country is facing a spiraling cholera outbreak which threatens to add to the devastation. (AP Photo/Tom Gould)

Mozambique works to contain cholera outbreak after cyclone

Weeks after massive Cyclone Freddy hit Mozambique for a second time, the still-flooded country is facing a spiraling cholera outbreak that threatens to add to the devastation.

FILE - Executive Secretary of the West African countries Mohamed Ibn Chambas attends a media conference at the EU Foreign Ministers meeting in Valkenburg, the Netherlands, Sept. 4, 2004. The goal of silencing the guns in Africa this decade is being challenged by climate change, terrorism, coups and the continent’s history, the head of the African Union initiative told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)

Climate, coups risk African goal of silencing guns by 2030

The goal of silencing the guns in Africa this decade is being challenged by climate change, terrorism, coups and the continent’s history.

Ghanaian soldiers conduct combat drills during Flintlock 2023 at Sogakope beach resort, Ghana, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. As extremist violence in West Africa's Sahel region spreads south toward coastal states, the United States military has launched its annual military training exercise which will help armies contain the jihadi threat. Soldiers from several African countries are being trained in counter-insurgency tactics as part of the annual U.S.-led exercise known as Flintlock. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

UN hears Africa, its Sahel region, are new terrorism targets

African nations are calling on the world to pay attention to how terrorism is targeting their continent, particularly its Sahel region.

Protesters take part in a march supporting rapper Azagaia in Maputo, Mozambique, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, whose real name was Edson da Luz, a popular protest rapper and fierce government critic who died last week. (AP Photo/Tom Gauld)

Mozambicans vow to keep marching for deceased protest rapper

Mozambican fans of deceased protest rapper Azagaia have vowed to keep marching in his honor, even though police violently dispersed demonstrations in Maputo and other cities last week.

Men transport their salvaged belongings in Chiradzulu, southern Malawi, Friday March 17, 2023. Authorities are still getting to grips with the scale of Cyclone Freddy's destruction in Malawi and Mozambique since late Saturday, with over 300 people confirmed dead and several hundreds still displaced or missing. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Death toll rises, locals pick up pieces after Cyclone Freddy

Authorities are still getting to grips with the scale of Cyclone Freddy’s destruction in Malawi and Mozambique since late Saturday, with over 370 people confirmed dead and several hundreds still displaced or missing.

Protesters take part in a march supporting rapper Azagaia in Maputo, Mozambique, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, whose real name was Edson da Luz, a popular protest rapper and fierce government critic who died last week. (AP Photo/Tom Gauld)

Mozambicans march to honor protest rapper after his death

Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, a popular protest rapper and fierce government critic, who died last week.

People receive food at a displacement centre in Blantyre, southern Malawi Thursday, March 16, 2023. After four days of destructive wind and rain, local communities and relief workers are now dealing with the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy which has killed more than 250 people and displaced tens of thousands of others across Malawi and Mozambique and may still cause further damage. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

After Cyclone Freddy, flood risk lingers for southern Africa

After four days of destructive wind and rain, local communities and relief workers are now dealing with the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy which has killed more than 250 people and displaced tens of thousands of others across Malawi and Mozambique and may still cause further damage.

Pallbearers carry a coffin at the burial ceremony for some of the people who lost their lives following heavy rains caused by Cyclone Freddy in Blantyre, southern Malawi, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. After barreling through Mozambique and Malawi since late last week and killing hundreds and displacing thousands more, the cyclone is set to move away from land bringing some relief to regions who have been ravaged by torrential rain and powerful winds. AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Cyclone Freddy wanes after battering Malawi, Mozambique

Monitors say Cyclone Freddy has dissipated after killing hundreds of people in Mozambique and Malawi but flooding still threatens both countries.

An injured man helped accrossin Blantyre, Malawi, Monday, March 13, 2023. The unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed more than 50 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Death toll climbs as Cyclone Freddy slams Malawi, Mozambique

An unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 56 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, authorities in both countries have confirmed.

FILE - The damaged roof of a school lies in the playground in Vilanculos, Mozambique, on Feb. 24. 2023. Still recovering from the effects of the first battering, the southwestern African nation of Mozambique is bracing for a rare second hit by long-living Tropical Cyclone Freddy late on Friday night, a regional weather center said Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Cyclone Freddy to slam Mozambique Friday in rare second hit

Still recovering from the effects of the first battering, the southeastern African nation of Mozambique is bracing for a rare second hit by long-living Tropical Cyclone Freddy late on Friday night, a regional weather center said Tuesday.

This image from Meteosat-9 satellite shows Tropical Cyclone Freddy, center right, and Mozambique on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique as the long-lasting weather system continues to wreak havoc across southern Africa, the United Nations weather agency said. (NOAA via AP)

Cyclone Freddy slams Mozambique with ‘dangerous’ rainfall

A damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique Friday as the long-lasting weather system continued to wreak havoc across southern Africa.

A man walks through a flooded road in the coast of the Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius Monday Feb. 20, 2023. Forecasts say Tropical Cyclone Freddy is increasing in intensity and is expected to pass north of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius and make landfall in central Madagascar Tuesday evening.It's feared that up to 2.2 million people, mostly in Madagascar, will be impacted by storm surges and flooding, according to the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System.(AP Photo/L'express Maurice)

Madagascar, Mozambique set for “dangerous” Cyclone Freddy

A cyclone which is intensifying as it approaches the southeastern African coast has been labeled as “dangerous” by the United Nation’s weather agency on Monday as nations brace for landfall.

33 million kids vaccinated against polio in southern Africa

The World Health Organization says that more than 33 million children in several southern African countries have been vaccinated against polio, part of ongoing efforts to eradicate the infectious paralytic disease that has been largely contained in much of the world.

In this photo supplied by the Mozambican Presidency, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, left, shakes hands with TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne at a meeting in Maputo, Mozambique, Friday, Feb. 3 2023. Extremist rebels in the county's northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for an international charity shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region. In March 2021 Mozambique’s Islamic extremist insurgency forced the France-based firm TotalEnergies to put on hold its $20 billion liquified natural gas project in the north of the province. (Photo Mozambican Presidency via AP).

Mozambique’s extremist rebels kill aid worker in north

Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region.

Video shows soldiers tossing bodies on fire in Mozambique

Officials say members of the Southern African Development Community military mission in Mozambique are being investigated after a video circulated on social media showing them throwing bodies on a pile of burning rubble.

CORRECTS NAME TO PEDRO COMISSARIO - Mozambique's United Nations Ambassador Pedro Comissário Afonso, left, installs his country's flag during ceremony for five newly-elected non-permanent members to serve on the United Nations Security Council for the term 2023-2024, Tuesday Jan. 3, 2023 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

UN Security Council welcomes new members; 2 are first-timers

Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland are getting a formal welcome into the U.N. Security Council.

This undated photo provided on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) shows people displaced by the conflict in Cabo Delgado Province Mozambique, next to a truck on the outskirts of Mueda, Mozambique, waiting to be transported to reach Palma, a coastal town that was attacked earlier this year and where some people have already gradually returned. Fleeing beheadings, shootings, rapes and kidnappings, nearly 1 million people are displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique. (Igor Barbero/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) via AP)

Mozambique jihadi violence spreads despite military effort

Fleeing beheadings, shootings, rapes and kidnappings, nearly 1 million people are displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique.

In this image made from video, Rwandan police patrol a road in Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, Sunday Aug. 15, 2021. A new offensive by Mozambique's Islamic extremist rebels in Cabo Delgado has increased the number of displaced by 80,000 and undermines the government's claims of containing the insurgency. (AP Photo/Marc Hoogsteyns)

Mozambique’s jihadis spread into most populous province

Extremists allied with the Islamic State group have spread their attacks further south into Mozambique’s most populous province, Nampula, including an assault on a Catholic mission in which an Italian nun was among those killed.

Wildlife veterinarian Andy Frasier darts a cheetah to be tranquilized and loaded into a crates, at a reserve near Bella Bella, South Africa, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. South African wildlife officials have sent four cheetahs to Mozambique this week as part of efforts to reintroduce the species to neighboring parts of southern Africa. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Cheetahs from South Africa go to parks in India, Mozambique

South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as part of ambitious efforts to reintroduce the distinctive spotted cats in regions where their population has dwindled.

In this image made from video, Rwandan police patrol a road in Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, Sunday Aug. 15, 2021. A new offensive by Mozambique's Islamic extremist rebels in Cabo Delgado has increased the number of displaced by 80,000 and undermines the government's claims of containing the insurgency. (AP Photo/Marc Hoogsteyns)

Mozambique’s jihadi rebels launch new offensive in north

A new offensive by Mozambique’s Islamic extremist rebels in the embattled northern province of Cabo Delgado has increased the number of displaced by 80,000 and undermines the government’s claims of containing the insurgency.

FILE - This Dec. 11, 2016, photo shows the Virunga National Park, taken from the rim of the crater of the Nyiragongo volcano and looking over the crater of another, extinct volcano, in North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Several oil and gas fields in the DRC, including some in the park, are being put up for auction starting Thursday, July 28, 2022, prompting outrage from environmental groups. (Juergen Baetz/dpa via AP, File)

Congo basin peatland rainforest oil leases up for auction

Sections of a renowned peatland tropical forest in the Congo Basin that plays a crucial role in Africa’s climate system go up for oil and gas auction in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday.

FILE - Somalis who fled drought-stricken areas carry their belongings as they arrive at a makeshift camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on June 30, 2022. African nations opened climate talks in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Wednesday, July 27, to identify their priorities and come up with a common position ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Egypt in November, known as COP27. The talks come as the continent grapples with devastating cyclones in the south and a debilitating drought across the east and Horn of Africa. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

African nations talk climate ahead of major UN meeting

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — African nations opened climate talks in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Wednesday to identify their priorities and come up with a common position ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Egypt in November, known as COP27.

Markings are shown made by children and adults in the basement of a school which was used as a bomb shelter for children and their parents, as their village was being attacked by Russian strikes, in Yahidne village, northern Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. A few months after Russian troops retreated from Yahidne in the northern Chernihiv region, the village has gradually returned to life. No one in the village yet plans to rebuild the school; they prefer not to mention the place at all. Most of Yahidne's residents — almost 400 people — spent a month in the school's basement. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

UN to monitor Ukraine war for violations against children

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations announced Monday it will start monitoring the war in Ukraine and conflicts in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Africa’s central Sahel region for violations against children, including killings, injuries, recruitment, rape and other forms of sexual violence.

FILE - A baby receives a polio vaccine during the Malawi Polio Vaccination Campaign Launch in Lilongwe, Malawi, on March 20, 2022. In neighbouring Mozambique, health authorities declared Wednesday May 18, 2022, an outbreak of wild poliovirus after confirming that a child in the country's northeastern Tete province had contracted the disease. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi, File)

Mozambique declares polio outbreak linked to Pakistan

Health authorities in Mozambique have declared a polio outbreak after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province had been paralyzed by the disease.