Maputo, 13\/02\/2026<\/p>\n
A new funding package made available by the Government of the Italian Republic will support the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in strengthening its assistance to Mozambique\u2019s National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) in the fight against organized crime, particularly drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday we are pleased to be here with UNODC and SERNIC to take a further step forward in the fight against drug trafficking in Mozambique, building on the extensive experience of Italy and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in this field,\u201d said the Ambassador of Italy to Mozambique, Gabriele Phillip Annis. \u201cThis is a far-reaching project. I am absolutely confident that it will lead to a significant and substantial strengthening of Mozambique\u2019s capacities in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe project strengthens both bilateral and multilateral cooperation. They are two sides of the same coin \u2014 that of international cooperation \u2014 against a phenomenon that is, in itself, international,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
Il\u00eddio Miguel, Director-General of SERNIC, recalled the exchange of experiences between Italy and Mozambique in recent years in the fight against organized crime and in the reform of the penitentiary system, including with the support of UNODC, highlighting the positive impact of these initiatives. \u201cIt is support that has made a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new project, generously funded by Italy, aims first and foremost to strengthen SERNIC\u2019s technical capacity, in particular its forensic capacity,\u201d emphasized Antonio De Vivo, Head of the UNODC Office in Mozambique.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough specialized training directly in SERNIC\u2019s laboratories and the provision of cutting-edge technological equipment, our goal is to enable SERNIC technicians to identify illicit substances and instruments of crime, such as weapons, more reliably and rapidly,\u201d explained De Vivo \u2014 a crucial effort to ensure that criminal groups are dismantled and brought to justice.<\/p>\n
The project also includes activities to improve coordination throughout the criminal justice chain \u2014 from the crime scene to the courtroom \u2014 with dedicated training on the digital dimension of crime, in light of the increasingly sophisticated use of digital tools by organized criminal groups.<\/p>\n
Throughout the implementation of the project, UNODC will coordinate direct cooperation activities with the Italian authorities, who will continue to share their extensive experience in combating organized crime and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maputo, 13\/02\/2026 A new funding package made available by the Government of the Italian Republic will support the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in strengthening its assistance to Mozambique\u2019s National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) in the fight against organized crime, particularly drug trafficking. \u201cToday we are pleased to be here with UNODC […]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11246,"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambmaputo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}