Mozambique

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INFORMATION

Capital: Maputo

Government: Republic

Current President: Filipe Nyusi

Economy:

  • Dependent upon foreign assistance for more than half of its annual budget.
  • Subsistence agriculture continues to employ the vast majority of the country’s work force and smallholder agricultural productivity and productivity growth is weak.

Population: 30,888,034 (July 2021 est.)

Land Size: 812,379 sq km (313,661 sq miles)

Major Ethnic Groups:

  • Makhuwa
  • Tsonga
  • Lomwe
  • Sena
  • Europeans: 0.06%
  • Euro-Africans: 0.2%
  • Indians: 0.08%
Religions:

  • Catholic: 28.4%
  • Protestant: 27.7% (Zionist Christian: 15.5%, Evangelical Pentecostal: 10.9%, Anglican: 1.3%)
  • Muslim: 17.9%
  • Other: 7.2%
  • None: 18.7%

Language(s):

  • Emakhuwa: 25.3%
  • Portuguese (official): 10.7%
  • Xichangana: 10.3%
  • Cisena: 7.5%
  • Elomwe: 7%
  • Echuwabo: 5.1%
  • Other Mozambican languages: 30.1%
  • Other: 4%

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RECENT NEWS

  • Fri - Mar 29, 2024: INGD Monitors Tropical Storm 'Gamane' - AllAfrica News: Mozambique
    [AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGD) has deployed technical teams to monitor tropical storm "Gamane', which has swept across Madagascar, leaving a trail of destruction behind it.
  • Fri - Mar 29, 2024: Bank Cuts Its Reference Interest Rate - AllAfrica News: Mozambique
    [AIM] Maputo -- The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Mozambique (CPMO), meeting in Maputo on Wednesday, announced a cut in its main interest rate of 75 base points.
  • Thu - Mar 28, 2024: TotalEnergies At 100 - a Legacy of Destruction in Africa - AllAfrica News: Mozambique
    [African Arguments] Displacements, environmental damage, and CO2 emissions from projects in Mozambique and Uganda are just the latest chapter in a long story.
  • Thu - Mar 28, 2024: Solar Panel Problems - AllAfrica News: Mozambique
    [Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] There are solar panels in registration posts which are off the electricity grid. But they do not generate enough electricity to power the Mobiles. This is the case with the posts at the Nhambonda EPC and the Nhambia EPC, in Gondola district, Manica province.
  • Thu - Mar 28, 2024: Nampula Recorded Breakdowns and Power Cuts - AllAfrica News: Mozambique
    [Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Equipment problems plus power cuts and rain continue across the country. This is a report of Nampula province on the seventh day of voter registration, Thursday 21 March. Nampula province faced problems of machine breakdowns, power cuts and rain.