2021 in Mozambique explained

This article lists events from the year 2021 in Mozambique.

See also: 2021 in East Africa and 2021 in Southern Africa.

Incumbents

• President

Filipe Nyusi

• Prime Minister

Carlos Agostinho do Rosário

Events

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique

January to March

• January 14 – COVID-19 pandemic: The government tightens health restrictions as new cases rise to 422 per day. Two hundred five people have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.^[1]
• January 16 – The Bazaruto Archipelago National Park (PNAB) reports a 47.5% decrease in illegal fishing from 2019 to 2020.^[2]
• February 8 – The government conservation department and conservation groups announce the successful reintroduction into the wild of two male and two female spotted hyenas in Zinave National Park for the first time in forty years.^[3]
• March 24 – Jihadist groups attack Palma, Cabo Delgado Province, from gas fields worth US$60 billion.^[4]
• March 27 – A British expatriate is reported killed in an attack by jihadists on Palma, according to The Daily Telegraph. Dozens of expatriates are reported killed, and there are reports of beheadings of children as young as eleven years old.^[5]
• March 31 – More than 5,300 displaced persons seek refuge in Cabo Delgado Province after ISIS attacks in Palma. Forty-five people flee to Tanzania.^[6]

Deaths

• January 29 – Calane da Silva, 75, writer and journalist, COVID-19.^[7]
• February 22 – Daviz Simango, 57, politician (Democratic Movement of Mozambique), mayor of Beira; complications from COVID-19 and diabetes^[8]

See also

• 2020–21 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2021–22 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
• COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Al-Shabaab (militant group)

Notes and References

1. News: Mozambique: Mozambican Government Tightens Measures Against Covid-19 . January 16, 2021 . allAfrica.com . 14 January 2021 . en.
2. News: Mozambique: Illegal Fishing Declines in Bazaruto National Park . January 16, 2021 . allAfrica.com . 16 January 2021 . en.
3. News: Thornycroft . Peta . Conservationists hail re-wilding success as hyenas return to Mozambique park . February 8, 2021 . news.yahoo.com . The Telegraph . February 8, 2021.
4. News: Armed groups attack Mozambique town closest to gas projects: sources . March 24, 2021 . news.yahoo.com . Reuters . March 24, 2021.
5. News: British expat believed to be among dozens killed in bloody Islamist siege of Mozambique town . March 28, 2021 . news.yahoo.com . The Telegraph . March 27, 2021.
6. News: More than 5,000 find refuge after ISIL attack in Mozambique . March 31, 2021 . www.aljazeera.com . Al Jazeera English . March 31, 2021 . en.
7. https://www.vaticannews.va/pt/africa/news/2021-01/mocambique-morreu-o-escritor-calane-da-silva-vitima-de-covid-19.html Moçambique: Morreu o escritor Calane da Silva, vítima de Covid-19 em Maputo
8. News: Influential mayor of Mozambique city dies of COVID-19 . February 22, 2021 . AP NEWS . 22 February 2021.