Afriques en Lutte / Mozambique

Unemployment and low wages are a major challenge for Sintime, IMF’s affiliate in Mozambique. Through a renewed focus on organizing and collective bargaining the union is getting stronger and is gaining higher wages for its members. It’s a hot day (...)

On 1st and 2nd September, in popular neighbourhoods of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, and in the town of Matola, in the industrial belt of Maputo, there were extremely violent demonstrations and looting of both public and private property by (...)

Les récentes émeutes de la faim, début septembre, ont éphémèrement mis le Mozambique sur le devant de la scène. Cette ancienne colonie portugaise, située en Afrique australe, a gagné son indépendance en 1975. Un an plus tard, les tenants de l’apartheid en (...)

Rioting continued in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city, for a third day on Friday in response to increased bread prices and the general rise in the cost of living. At least 10 people are dead, including a six-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, (...)

"Existing social inequalities and regional asymmetry could endanger the climate of peace, calm and social harmony that is the basic prerequisite for balanced and self-sustaining socio-economic development," Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi (...)

Jorge Rebelo, former Mozambique’s Information Minister, said in Maputo on Wednesday that there is a strong opposition to criticism within the ruling party Frelimo. Rebelo, who is one of the most influential members of the ruling party, was (...)

La police a ouvert le feu mercredi à Maputo sur des manifestants qui protestaient contre la cherté de la vie, tuant au moins six personnes dont deux enfants, a-t-on rapporté de sources policières et médicales. Il s’agit des violences les plus graves (...)

Des manifestations contre la vie chère ont fait plusieurs morts ce mercredi dans la capitale mozambicaine. Les manifestants qui entendaient protester contre les prix des produits de première nécessité ont été pris à parti par la police qui selon (...)