Grand corruption and petty corruption in Mozambique's courts

Welcome to Zitamar's Daily Briefing for 1 December 2022

Good afternoon. Mozambique’s doctors are facing down the government, as they continue to threaten a three-week strike starting next Monday. The government will do all it can to avoid it, but so far has been unable to mollify the doctors who are unhappy with changes to their salaries under the new and highly problematic unified pay scale for public sector workers.

The ‘hidden debts’ trial verdict reading continues today; we have a summary of Day 1, below, and you can follow live on STV here. For some lighter relief, we have published today the comedy video causing controversy in Chimoio, with three children acting out a scene of traffic police corruption. Watch it now on our Telegram channel, with English subtitles, here.

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The latest from Zitamar News:

EU to announce €15m package for electricity projects in Mozambique
An EU initiative to support private sector electrification projects has set aside €15m for up to 10 projects in Mozambique

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From the Zitamar Live Blog:

WATCH: The children’s comedy video that all Mozambique is talking about
The controversy over a comedy video starring three children acting a scene of Mozambican traffic police, continues today, with the journalists' union trading accusations with the provincial prosecutor in Manica.
The Zitamar Live Blog has subtitled the video in English for our readers to see what the fuss is about, as well as published the back-and-forth messages between journalists' union SNJ and the Manica PGR.

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Also in the news:

• Ndambi Guebuza facing heavy sentence as ‘hidden debts’ verdict begins

• Kagame says Rwanda increasing troop presence in Mozambique

• Doctors say three-week strike will start on Monday

• World Bank cuts support to INGD for misappropriation of disaster funds

• Emose wins sovereign disaster risk insurance contract

• Zambezia smallholders lose out to unscrupulous buyers