Mozambique

January 18, 2020

Poor countries cut public spending in response to trebling of debt payments

Meeting Sustainable Development Goals to cut poverty and inequality requires large increases in public spending, but in many countries the opposite is happening.
January 10, 2020

Russian state bank sues Mozambique over loans arranged in London

Campaigners say the people of Mozambique should not have to pay one cent in debt arising from secret loans.
September 16, 2019

Six months after cyclone Idai 'farmers are fainting in fields because of hunger'

Hunger is escalating as the United Nations humanitarian response in Mozambique is less than half funded, warns Oxfam.
August 15, 2019

Call for protection of southern Africa people with albinism

Violent attacks are fuelled by the false and dangerous belief that body parts of people with albinism can make someone rich.
July 17, 2019

Aid agencies call for urgent action as food crisis looms in Mozambique

Four months after two deadly cyclones swept through northern Mozambique, the food security situation is increasingly worsening.
May 31, 2019

Aid agencies say more resources needed for women and girls following Mozambique cyclones

The humanitarian crisis increase the risks faced by women and girls in Mozambique and could widen gender inequalities in a country which even prior to the disaster, ranked in the bottom 20 nations on the UNDP Gender Inequality Index.
May 21, 2019

Investing in the 'blue economy' to accelerate sustainable development in Africa

The President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development will be in Mozambique for the Growing Blue Conference where he will speak to the need for greater investment in sustainable development for rural people whose livelihoods depend on aquatic resources including small-scale fisheries, aquaculture and coastal environments.
May 20, 2019

Mozambique campaigners visit London to hold banks to account for loans scandal

The loans have caused an economic crisis in Mozambique with rising prices for basic necessities and falling government spending.
April 29, 2019

IMF loan to Mozambique following Cyclone Idai 'shocking indictment' of international community

Emergency grants should be available to impoverished countries in response to disasters like Idai, especially those linked to the climate breakdown primarily caused by richer countries in the global North, says Jubilee Debt Campaign.
April 26, 2019

Number of malnourished children set to double in Idai-hit areas of Mozambique

The number of acutely malnourished children under five in cyclone-hit areas in Mozambique is expected to jump from nearly 60,000 to 115,000, after crops and livelihoods were swept away by the storm, Save the Children has warned.