Security

Mozambique’s Interior Minister, Pascoal Ronda, has called for a multisectoral approach geared to tackle the scourge of kidnappings. Speaking on Wednesday in the parliament, Ronda said that the country needed...

Mozambican police (PRM) in the coastal municipality city of Angoche, in the northern Nampula province, on Thursday violently cracked down on the opposition Renamo demonstrators who are protesting the official...

The Islamist insurgents in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado on 10th November attacked the Novo Cabo Delgado village, in the Chai Administrative Post, in the district of Macomia,...

The Islamist insurgency in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado is said to be moving southbound, according to local media. Groups of insurgents heading south have been seen passing...

Three unidentified assailants kidnapped a young woman on Wednesday morning in the Maputo elite neighbourhood of Sommerschield, reported the local media. The assailants snatched Zakia Dassat, the daughter of an...

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has denied the accusation that the nation’s Defence and Security Forces (FDS) have occasionally perpetrated human rights abuses against civilian populations in the northern province of...

Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi argued that the country would have made considerable progress in the war against terror had it had received more resources. The statement was made during a...

Insurgents in the northern Cabo Delgado province attacked the village of Naquitengue, close to the Inguri river, in the Mocímboa da Praia district beheading between 12 to 17 civilians. According...

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has urged the incoming Minister of the Interior, Pascoal Ronda, to fine-tune the country’s policing strategies to combat terrorism, organised crime, including kidnappings and abductions, money...

Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi on Monday appointed former police general commander Pascoal Ronda to the post of Minister of the Interior. Ronda will replace Arsénia Massingue, who had been at...