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Venâncio Mondlane
Venâncio António Bila Mondlane (born 17 January 1974) is a Mozambican politician and engineer. In the 2024 presidential election, Mondlane ran for President of Mozambique as supported by PODEMOS party. Prior to his presidential run, he had served as a member of the Municipal Council of Maputo from 2014 to 2015, where he also served as the head of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique's (MDM) bench in Maputo's municipal council from 2014 to 2015. He resigned from the seat in 2015. Mondlane later attempted to run again for the Municipal Council in 2018, but his campaign was annulled by the National Election Commission (CNE). He was later an MP as a member of the primary opposition RENAMO party from 2020 to 2024. He ran for mayor of Maputo City as a member of MDM party in the 2013 local elections, and again in the 2023 elections as a member of RENAMO. He again served as a councilman in Maputo briefly in 2024, as his 2023 mayoral run yielded him a seat, but his mandate was revoked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Mozambican General Election
General elections were held in Mozambique on 9 October 2024 to elect the president, the 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic and members of the ten provincial assemblies. The ruling FRELIMO party, which has increasingly become marked with growing concerns of authoritarianism and impunity amid the controversies surrounding the 2023 local elections and the 2019 general election, was declared the winner of the election, with its leader, Daniel Chapo, proclaimed as president-elect. This was disputed by Venâncio Mondlane, with his party PODEMOS claiming Mondlane had received 53% of the vote using data from their poll observers. The result was also questioned by the Episcopal Conference of Mozambique and the European Union, while deadly protests broke out over the election results, with at least 250 deaths, mostly demonstrators being killed by police and army forces. Background FRELIMO, which has ruled the country since 1975 when they created a one-party Marxist–Len ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assembly Of The Republic (Mozambique)
The Assembly of the Republic () is the unicameral legislative body of the Mozambique, Republic of Mozambique, established in 1977. The current parliament has 250 members, who are directly elected through a system of party-list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. Parties must receive at least five percent of the vote nationally to gain parliamentary representation. Parliamentary debates and business are conducted entirely in Portuguese language, Portuguese. Three parties are represented in the parliament: FRELIMO, RENAMO and the Democratic Movement of Mozambique. After the 2014 election, RENAMO MPs have refused to take office, since the party considered Mozambican general election, 2014, the electoral act had been Electoral fraud, fraudulent, but they resumed their duties in February 2015. Presidents of the Assembly The President of the Assembly is the second-highest figure in the state hierarchy of Mozambique, and will replace the President of Mozambique in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AP News
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used '' AP Stylebook'', its AP polls tracking NCAA sports, sponsoring the National Football League's annual awards, and its election polls and results during US elections. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice hourly newscasts and daily sportscasts for broadcast and satellite radio and television station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Department Of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy of the United States, foreign policy and foreign relations of the United States, relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nations, its primary duties are advising the U.S. president on international relations, administering List of diplomatic missions of the United States, diplomatic missions, negotiating international treaties and agreements, protecting citizens abroad and representing the U.S. at the United Nations. The department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building, a few blocks from the White House, in the Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.; "Foggy Bottom" is thus sometimes used as a metonym. Established in 1789 as the first administrative arm of the U.S. executive branch, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau Of Educational And Cultural Affairs
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the United States Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world. It is responsible for the United States' cultural exchange programs. As of February 4, 2025, Darren Beattie is the senior official and acting Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. History In 1940, Nelson Rockefeller began the exchange of persons program with Latin America, as the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Affairs for the American Republics. This program sent 130 journalists from Latin America to the United States. In 1942, The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was created out of the United States Government's need for a centralized location for information. OWI was disbanded under the Truman administration, though a small element of the original structure was maintained within the State Department as the Off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Visitor Leadership Program
The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is a professional exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The mission of IVLP is to offer current and emerging international leaders the opportunity to experience the richness and diversity of American political, economic, social and cultural life through carefully designed exchanges that reflect participants’ professional interests and the public diplomacy objectives of the United States government. The exchange brings up to 5,000 professional emerging leaders from around the world to the United States each year for programs of up to three weeks. The program is nomination only by staff at U.S. Embassies. History In 1940, Nelson Rockefeller was named the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Affairs for the American Republics. He initiated the exchange of persons program with Latin America, inviting 130 Latin American journalists to the United States and recog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Of Portuguese Language Countries
The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (; : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth or Lusophone Community (), is an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across four continents, where Portuguese is an official language. The CPLP operates as a privileged, multilateral forum for the mutual cooperation of the governments, economies, non-governmental organizations, and peoples of the ''Lusofonia''. The CPLP consists of 9 member states and 33 associate observers, located in Africa, América, Asia, and Europe, totalling 38 countries and 4 organizations. The CPLP was founded in 1996, in Lisbon, by Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe, nearly two decades after the beginning of the decolonization of the Portuguese Empire. Following the independence of Timor-Leste in 2002 and the application by Equatorial Guinea in 2014, both of those countries became members of the CPLP. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Televisão Miramar
TV Miramar, also simply known as Miramar, is a Mozambican free-to-air terrestrial television channel owned by Rede de Comunicação Miramar, which, in turn, is a member of Edir Macedo's Grupo Record. Since 2020, Leandro Pinheiro has been the current executive director of the Miramar group. It broadcasts its content terrestrially via TMT, on channel 3, to all provinces of Mozambique, and on analog terrestrial television until the shutdown of the network in 2021. Miramar is also present in the country's main pay TV distributors: DStv, TVCabo, GOTV, StarTimes, but not Zap, and also livestreams much of its output through its website. History TV Miramar was created in 1998 and was a de facto affiliate of the Record network since its inception. The name came from a network of radio stations set up in 1995 in Maputo, Beira and Nampula. Miramar historically operated thanks to contributions from local members of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the denomination Edir Macedo p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soico Televisão
Soico Televisão, abbreviated STV (styled in mixed case as Stv) is a Mozambican commercial terrestrial television network founded in 2002 by Daniel David's Grupo Soico. History Soico TV started on October 25, 2002, after a month of experimental broadcasts, by former TVM employee Daniel David. Initially, the channel's programming was entirely in English, due to an affiliation agreement with the South African pan-African television network TVAfrica (at the time CTV Africa), with which it established a strong partnership. TVAfrica owned a 20% stake in the station. Within months, the channel quickly consolidated itself as a competitor to TVM, in terms of programming, as it had more liberties in creating programs as opposed to TVM, which caused the public sector to rearrange its structure. The station was initially domiciled inside a makeshift facility in a rented apartment. One bedroom housed the control room, the other housed a solitary Apple Macintosh and mixers. The living room wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RDP África
RDP África is a terrestrial radio station owned by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal broadcasting to Lusophone African countries with programming such as Lusophone African music, as well as Portuguese music and Brazilian music, with update reports from the Lusophone African recording world. The station broadcasts on FM in Portugal (Lisboa 101.5 MHz, Coimbra 103.4 MHz and Faro 99.1 MHz), but also on most African Portuguese-speaking countries: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. RDP África was introduced to Lusophone Africa when RDP Internacional stopped its broadcast on 6 January 1998 and launched RDP África the next day. The radio station also serves the Portuguese populations of Lusophone Africa and African populations of both black, white, and mulatto blood of Portugal. History Before the creation of RDP África, RDP created an opt-out service called Canal África in 1994. The service was catering Portugal and the Lusophone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millennium Bim
Millennium bim is a Mozambican bank that was founded on 25 October 1995, the result of a strategic partnership between Banco Comercial Português, now known as Millennium bcp, and the Mozambican state. It is currently one of the largest banks in Mozambique. History In 2000, and in the process of changes to the levels of the structures surrounding shareholders in the Banco Comercial de Moçambique (BCM), the principal shareholder of Banco Internacional de Moçambique, the Banco Comercial Português would go on to become the shareholder of reference of the BCM and the Banco Internacional de Moçambique. This evolution determined the necessity that would proceed the merging of the two entities, which concluded in 2001. With this operation, the new structure of the bank maintained the designation of one of the banks of the Banco Internacional de Moçambique. In 2006, the Banco Comercial Português rebranded as Millennium in every region where it was present. /sup> In alignment wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SGS S
SGS may refer to: Acronym usage * ISO 639-3 code for the Samogitian dialect * ISO 3166 trigram for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands * FAA location identifier for South St. Paul Municipal Airport Companies and organizations * SGS Essen, a German multi-sports club * SGS S.A. (formerly ''Société Générale de Surveillance''), a Swiss company providing inspection, verification, testing and certification services * SGS-ATES (''Società Generale Semiconduttori – Aquila Tubi E Semiconduttori''), a former Italian company now merged into STMicroelectronics * SGS/SCN, regional television stations in Australia * Saudi Geological Survey, the national geological survey of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia * Serbian Genealogical Society, a learned society that is engaged in genealogical research * Sisters of the Good Samaritan, a Roman Catholic congregation of religious women * Styling Garage, a German automobile tuner and coachbuilder active in the 1980s Entertainment * Sahaba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
