Eduardo Mondlane University & Mozambican Association of Bakeries has signed MoU on scientific research aimed at valorization of biomass in alternative energy sources, supported by International Labour Organization under Sida-funded MozTrabalha project, which aims to promote job creation for young people.🇲🇿

Statement from SwedishPM against the background of the burnings of holy scriptures.

We are analyzing the legal situation – including the Public Order Act – with the purpose of exploring the scope for measures that would strengthen our national security

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Mais do que palavras, as acções! Partilho convosco exemplos e resultados da parceria UE-UA assente no diálogo, multilateralismo, e orientada para soluções e o futuro. A UE🇪🇺 é parceria solidária com África, pela paz, segurança e prosperidade. Saiba mais: tinyurl.com/yu3zv65z

Today is world wildlife day! 🦓🦒🐘
🇸🇪 supports the World Customs Organization to combat illegal wildlife trade in southern & Eastern Africa with the goal of improving customs administrations' capacity for preventing illicit wildlife movement.
Read more 👇 bit.ly/3yqnTHT

ILO Lusaka and Sweden in Mozambique have signed a USD$ 16, 349 million MozTrabalha phase II project to be implemented for 5-years in Mozambique. This is a testimony to strong relationship and partnership between Govt, partners, Swedish Govt and @ilo.

ILO Lusaka Director @GeorgeOkutho says the USD$ 17 million MozaTrabalha II Sweden in Mozambique funded project seeks to promote employement & decent work for Mozambican women and men living in poverty, using a systems approach with focus on structural transformation and just transitions.

.Sweden in Mozambique Ambassador to Mozambique Mette Sunnergren says the USD$ 17 million Sweden in Mozambique funded OIT_Moztrabalha II project will create sustainable opportunities for decent jobs for a large number of Mozambicans. She said this during the signing ceremony in Maputo today.

.ILO Lusaka Director @GeorgeOkutho says the USD$ 17 million Sweden in Mozambique funded OIT_Moztrabalha II project will focus on either unemployed or employed but earn less than what is needed to meet their needs through creation and expansion of productive employment and decent work.

.Sweden in Mozambique Ambassador to Mozambique Mette Sunnergren says ILO Lusaka is a longstanding partner to Sweden in Mozambique in the area of decent work. She said this during the signing ceremony of the USD$ 17 million Sweden in Mozambique funded OIT_Moztrabalha II project in Maputo today.

.ILO Lusaka Director @GeorgeOkutho says the USD$ 17 million Sweden in Mozambique funded OIT_Moztrabalha II project interventions will reduce unemployment rate which stand 17.40% (male) and 17.70% (female) to 13.40% (male) and 13.90% (female) by year 2026. He said at the signing ceremony.

Tack så mycket, #Sweden , for your voluntary contribution of SEK 3 million to DPPA’s Multi-Year Appeal, which will support the work of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for #Mozambique . #SupportDPPA dppa.un.org/en/funding

To provide tools for the implementation of #childgrant in #CaboDelgado , to benefit around 17k children, MGCAS/INAS-IP, w/ support from UNICEF,Sweden in Mozambique, UK in Mozambique 🇬🇧🇲🇿,NL Embassy in Maputo, @ulkoministerio & Canada in Mozambique, Angola, and Eswatini, is training the delegation of Pemba & Mocimboa da Praia.

Today, we mark the anniversary of the #UNCharter , which entered into force on 24 October 1945.

The UN Charter is clear.

#StandWithUkraine #UNday 🇸🇪 🇺🇳 🇺🇦

📣'We are facing the greatest foreign, security and defence policy challenges of modern times.'

Read the Statement of Government Policy delivered by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson here ⬇️

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As of today, 18 October 2022, Sweden has a new Government, led by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Read more about Sweden’s new Government on government.se

Today is International Day of the Girl!👭🎊 Let's continue to celebrate, respect and empower girls and young women to take control of their own lives, their bodies, to make their voices heard and actively participate in all spheres of society.

#DayoftheGirl #IDGC

#DayOfTheGirl celebrations underway!

Under the leadership of #CNJ , in partnership with Government 🇲🇿 & CSOs, & with funding from Sweden in Mozambique & Canada in Mozambique, Angola, and Eswatini, youth 👧🏽👦🏽 are taking part in a Nat'l Girls & Boys conference to 📢 raise awareness of issues impacting their lives.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises.”

Congratulations!👏

The Nobel Peace Prize🕊 for 2022 was awarded today to human rights defender Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Russian human rights organisation 'Memorial'and Ukrainian human rights organisation 'Center for Civil Liberties'. Congratulations to everyone! 🏅👏

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. Congratulations!👏👏👏