Conflict Weekly

Conflict Weekly No 32-19 a 25 de Junho-22-FINAL

ENG:

Dialogue, Reconciliation and Peace are three issues off the Mozambican political agenda. This week, we didn’t find any news related to these three issues, and looking at previous weeks, concerns about peace or dialogue only arise when there are attacks by insurgents. For a society constantly at war, the absence of sustained domestic and international concern on the matter shows that for both the government and the international community, the well-being of ...

Conflict Weekly No 31-12 a 18 de Junho-22-FINAL

ENG:

Roads remain unsafe in Mozambique, due both to the recklessness of private and the negligence of public regulatory authorities. Public authorities have missed by 30 days a 10 days deadline for the publication of the report of the Commission of Inquiry on accidents involving buses that caught fire without any apparent reason. The continued lack of policy measures against road accidents seems to show that the government is not paying enough attention ...

Conflict Weekly No 30-05 a 11 de Junho-22-FINAL

ENG:

In this Weekly, we highlight the fact that shortly after the submission of the proposed revision of the anti-terrorism law, which penalizes the disclosure of classified information related to, for example, national peace and security issues, government officials come to the public to spread false news about the conflict in Cabo Delgado. The police were caught denying the occurrence of an attack in Ancuabe, while the President confirmed it. Under the proposed ...

Conflict Weekly No 29-29.05 a 04.06-22-FINAL

ENG:

In Mozambique, it seems as if it is not only the police who resort to public displays of violence to discipline citizens, but also teachers and school leadership. This week, 50 students at a school were physically punished in public for being late. They had to kneel during the singing of the national anthem and later crawl to their classrooms. This kind of punishment was delivered at a secondary school in Malhazine, in Maputo ...

Conflict Weekly 27 15 a 21-Maio-22-FINAL

At a time when Mozambicans relies entirely on the media to stay informed about terrorism in the country, the government submits, and the parliament relying on votes from the majority party, approves an anti-terrorism law that harshly punishes information disclosure. According to the law, anyone who discloses, by any means, classified information is punished with a prison sentence that can go from 12 to 16 years. Setting something as a state secret is sometimes ...

Conflict Weekly No 26 08 a 14-Maio-22-FINAL

The Government wants to tighten the legal framework in force in the country, regarding the fight against terrorism and organized crime. To this end, the parliament approved this Thursday, in general, the proposal to revise the law on preventing and combating money laundering and financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. On the basis of the Law, the Minister of Justice for Constitutional and Religious Affairs explained that ...