According to Nyusi, who was inaugurating a Hotel on Monday
in Metangula, in the northern province of Niassa, Mozambique has established
itself as a leading player in the region's tourism industry, offering reliable
and trustworthy services.
"Today we are not just celebrating the hotel, but the
fruits of a struggle in which the sons of Niassa were major protagonists, along
with other compatriots. The hotel's entry into operation extends the
comparative advantage in the development of tourism in Niassa province, whose
potential is quite impressive, but still very little exploited', he added.
The hotel, named Jamine Bay and Spa, is budgeted at 120
million meticais (about two million US dollars).
Nyusi also encouraged the private sector and entrepreneurial
initiatives, including at community level, to exploit the rich cultural mosaic
as a source of income generation and development.
"The Jamine Bay Hotel and Spa closes the narrative that
the shores of Lake Niassa do not have quality tourist infrastructures, compared
to neighboring countries such as Malawi and Tanzania', he stressed.
In order to boost tourism in the region and in the country
in general, the President urged the government to increase the volume of
national and international tourists, stimulating the diversification of
products and services.
1001123E PGR PROMISES TO INVESTIGATE ANGOCHE SHOOTINGS
Maputo, 21 Nov (AIM) - The Mozambican Attorney-General's
Office (PGR) has promised to open an investigation into the police shooting of
demonstrators last week, in the town of Angoche, in the northern province of
Nampula.
The demonstration, on 16 November, was one of many organized
across the country by the main opposition party, Renamo, in protest against
what it regards as the fraudulent results of the municipal elections.
The clash reportedly started when the demonstrators marched
through the streets of Angoche, covering a coffin draped with a flag of the
ruling Frelimo Party. The police dispersed the demonstrators, seized the
coffin, and took it to the Angoche District Police Command.
The demonstrators went to the command to ask the police to
return their coffin. It is not yet clear exactly what happened next, but the
upshot is that several people suffered gunshot wounds.
The police used tear gas and live ammunition to disperse the
crowd, and some of the violence was caught on amateur videos later shown by the
independent television station STV.
The number of people shot is in dispute. Interior Minister
Pascoal Ronda said that two people had been injured, one of whom later died.
But other sources, cited by STV, put the number of people injured at eight.
The Provincial Chief Attorney in Nampula, Ribeiro Cuna, said
that police intervention in events such as demonstrations "should give
primacy to persuasion'.
The means used by the police should always be proportional
to the threat faced. So the PGR investigation, Cuna added, would seek to find
whether the police response in Angoche had been proportional to the threat
posed by the demonstrators.
He said that currently over ten criminal proceedings are
under way, arising from the Renamo demonstrations in the province. He gave no
details but it is known that two of the cases that have come to court were in
the port of Nacala. In one of the trials the accused were found guilty, and in
the other they were acquitted.
Asked about the members of the District Elections
Commissions who supposedly admitted to receiving 500,000 meticais (about 7,800
US dollars) as payment for committing fraud, Cuna preferred not to comment.
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