Health & Environment

The World Bank Group Responds Speedily with $150 Million to Aid Mozambique's Post-Cyclone Freddy Recovery The World Bank Group has swiftly approved the disbursement of $150 million through the Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC), aimed at bolstering the Government of Mozambique's early recovery efforts in the wake of the devastating Tropical Cyclone Freddy. In response to the Ministry of...

Mozambique is in the grips of an authentic national emergency caused by an invasion of the Indian crow, a bird considered exotic and originates from South Asia. This dangerous and daring species has been present in the country since the late 1960s and early 1970s and returned at the beginning of this century, with the second wave proving even stronger than the first. Almost all...