Sources: IOL
Human Rights Watch reports that at least 120 children have been abducted by Islamic State-linked Ansar al-Sunna insurgents in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, this year. The children are used for labor, conscripted as child soldiers, or forced into marriage. 2025-06-24
Canada, the EU, Israel, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, and the U.S. ban flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, and Eswatini due to the Omicron variant. 2021-11-26
Rwandan president Paul Kagame announces during a press conference in Pemba, Mozambique, that Rwandan troops will continue to be stationed in Mozambique for the reconstruction of areas affected by the extremist insurgency. Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi thanks Kagame for the country's commitment to fight terrorism in the region. 2021-09-24
The cabinet announces that 20 of South Africa's land borders with Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe will reopen on February 15. 2021-02-13
A suspected drunk driver loses control while fleeing police in Maputo, Mozambique, strikes a crowd, and kills 21 people, injuring 30 more. 2018-03-25
A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and 146 hospitalized. 2015-01-10
Suspected Renamo rebels kill 7 Mozambican soldiers in an ambush near Gorongosa. 2013-10-17
South African President Jacob Zuma cancels his scheduled trip to Mozambique after a visit to the critically ill former president Nelson Mandela in a Pretoria hospital. 2013-06-26
Death of Mido Macia: Eight South African policemen are arrested on suspicion of murder after dragging a Mozambican man behind their police van earlier in the week. 2013-03-1
39 people are killed in South Africa and thousands of homes are destroyed in Mozambique following widespread flooding. 2011-01-17