At least 90 people, including children, died on Sunday after an overcrowded fishing vessel used as a ferry sank near Mozambique’s northern coast.

Local authorities said the ship, carrying about 130 passengers on a voyage to an island near Nampula province, had difficulties leading to its sinking.

For his part, the Minister of State for Nampula Region, Jaime Neto, indicated that the technical condition of the boat was very poor, and it is not suitable for transporting passengers.

Neto explained that the motive behind the passenger flight was to escape the risk of cholera, based on misinformation about the spread of the disease.

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Rescue teams have recovered five survivors, while efforts to search for more have continued, despite challenging maritime conditions, and an investigation team is working to uncover the causes of the accident.

Mozambique has recorded about 15,000 cholera cases and 32 deaths since October, mostly in Nampula province, which has one of the highest poverty rates in the world.

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Reuters reported that Somali pirates released the hijacked ship “Abdullah” and its crew of 23 members after a ransom of $5 million was paid.

One of the pirates, Abdul Rashid Yusuf, told the agency that they received the money two nights ago as usual, then validated and divided the funds, before releasing the ship and its entire crew on Sunday, avoiding government forces.

Somali government officials did not respond to requests for comment.

The Bangladeshi-flagged bulk ship was hijacked in March while on its voyage from Mozambique to the United Arab Emirates, about 600 nautical miles east of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Waters off the Somali coast were in chaos between 2008 and 2018 due to pirate activity, and things remained calm until the end of last year, when pirate activity began to rise again.
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On Friday, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution renewing the authorization to inspect ships off Libya, with the aim of implementing the arms embargo for a full year.

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The resolution, which bore the number 2733, received the support of 9 members, while the remaining 6 abstained from voting: Russia, Algeria, Sierra Leone, China, Guyana, and Mozambique.

The mandate in place allows UN member states, acting at the national level or through regional organizations, to inspect ships on the high seas heading to or coming from Libya if they have reasonable grounds to believe they are violating the arms embargo.

Member States and relevant regional organizations are required to first seek in good faith the approval of the State whose flag the ship flies before carrying out any inspections.
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Algeria regained its balance in the African qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup with an exciting victory over its host Uganda, 2-1, in the fourth round of Group Seven competitions.

Uganda started the match strongly and scored the first goal through Egyptian Zamalek striker Travis Mutyaba in the tenth minute.

Algeria was able to turn the tables in the second half, as Roma’s Italian midfielder Houssem Aouar equalized the score in the 46th minute, before Said Benrahma, the English West Ham United striker loaned to Lyon in France, scored the winning goal in the 58th minute.

With this victory, Algeria achieved its first victory under its new coach, the Swiss Vladimir Petkovic, to compensate for its loss in its first official match under his leadership when it fell to its guest Guinea 1-2 last Thursday.
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The Chinese Ministry of National Defense announced its participation in joint military exercises with the armed forces of Mozambique and Tanzania.

The spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, Zhang Xiaogang, stated that the exercises will be held from late July to mid-August in Africa.

Zhang explained during a press conference that the aim of these exercises is to enhance military cooperation and mutual trust between the participating countries, in addition to developing capabilities in the field of combating terrorism on land and at sea, noting that this cooperation aims to support regional peace and stability.
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Russia’s relations with the entire African continent have intensified in light of the continuous rise of national liberation movements that found in Moscow an ideal partner with which to build balanced partnership relations, far from dependence and European colonialism that plundered the continent’s wealth.

Since 2009, from Libya to the Central African Republic, from Burkina Faso to Mozambique, from Niger to Sudan and Mali, Russia has returned strongly to Africa. To accumulate, day after day, more solid relations with the people of the dark continent, through its firm position to support the sovereignty and stability of African countries.
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