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Mozambique: Brazil and U.S. join in cooperative development program
Mozambique has lots of fertile land and access to the region’s major rivers. Yet the country imports most of its food, much of it...
Fuel crisis hits Southern African countries amid protests
Malawians are bracing for demonstrations countrywide by end February to protest against persistent chronic fuel shortage saying they are prepared to be shot at....
Maputo riots blamed on rising wheat prices in Southern Africa
Food riots in Maputo, Mozambique on Wednesday left at least six protesters dead including a female student as police sprayed bullets at demonstrators.
Reports from...
TV Brazil International bridges gap with Africa
Brazil Monday launched its international television network in the Mozambican capital of Maputo. TV Brazil International will be broadcast in Portuguese and beamed to...
Catholic sex abuse scandals uncovered in Africa
Recent sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in Europe and the Americas seem to be spreading to Africa. Alleged claims...
CAN 2010: Nigeria join Egypt in final 8
Nigeria needed a win against Mozambique. Not only to qualify for the quarter finals of the 2010 African Cup of Nations but also to...
CAN 2010: Egypt reach last eight
Egypt 2 Mozambique 0, the Pharaos have booked their ticket for the quarters.
Champions Egypt have secured their place in the quarter finals of the...
Zimbabwe-Madagascar: Mugabe pushing proposal to overthrow Andry Rajoelina militarily?
Zimbabwe leader, President Mugabe, is reportedly pushing for his military intervention in Madagascar to topple its president - Andry Rajoelina.
He is expected to further...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe and Tsvangirai prepare for confrontation in Maputo
Zimbabwe's long time ruler President Mugabe and his political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will attend Thursday’s regional summit in Maputo, Mozambique, in a...
Madagascar: Who will head the transition government?
The current strong man of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, alongside three former presidents of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy met Wednesday in...
Mozambique Constitutional Council dumps two-thirds of presidential candidates
Mozambique's Constitutional Council (CC), the body in charge of verifying the nomination papers of presidential candidates, has rejected six candidates who had submitted their...
South Africa-Mozambique: One man’s fight against human trafficking
A casual conversation in a Pretoria, South Africa, café launched a dangerous investigation by Inácio Sebastião Mussanhane, a lawyer from Mozambique who was studying...
Mozambique: Health workers killed for cholera spread
A mob angered by rumors in Mozambique that health workers there are spreading the deadly cholera virus has killed four people have ...
A new stadium for Portugese speakers at 2010 World Cup
China is set to build a massive $60 million soccer stadium in Mozambique in a bid to tap into the Soccer World Cup in...
Mozambique: Many killed as rains threaten population
Mozambique has witnessed a season's amount of rain in a week which has caused flooding, killed 26 people and left thousands of others homeless....
Half of Mozambique’s 2009 budget faces a deficit
More than half of the Mozambican 2009 Budget introduced in the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, is dependent on foreign aid.
The estimated...
Zimbabwe cholera spreads to Mozambique, Mugabe says no
With reports of a growing cholera crisis having killed about 800 people as well as spreading to neighbouring Mozambique, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has...
National official blames HIV/AIDS on homosexuals
The Deputy Executive Secretary of Mozambique's National AIDS Council (CNCS), Diogo Milagre, has denied making remarks earlier this week that accused gays and bisexuals...
A national cultural heritage site for the late Samora Machel
The Mozambican government has decided to grant the town of Chilembene - the birthplace of the country's first president Samora Machel - in the...
Mugabe is a ‘political criminal’ says top foreign politician
Alfonso Dhlakama, head of the opposition Renamo party in Mozambique at the weekend branded Robert Mugabe a "political criminal".
Weekend reports say Dhlakama said Mugabe...
Passenger arrested for threatening to explode plane in mid-air
Paulo Estevao, otherwise called Dangerman, one of the six men acquitted 1 July in the case of the attempted murder of popular Mozambican lawyer...
Progress on Mozambican bridge
The Mozambican government is satisfied at the pace of work on the new bridge over the Zambezi river at Caia, even though it will...
President Guebuza favours stiff competition between Mozambicans, Malawians
Mozambican leader Armando Guebuza has warned his people to desist from any attempt to prevent Malawian traders from operating in the country.
Addressing a rally...
Mozambique gets debt relief from Portugal
Portugal has cancelled Mozambique's remaining debts to Lisbon, estimated at US$ 393.4 million, accumulated from independence until 2005.
Portugal has cancelled Mozambique's remaining debts to...
HIV Positive Mozambiquans faring better
In just over three years, Mozambique has increased the number of HIV-positive people receiving the life-prolonging anti-retroviral therapy by over 1,500 per cent.
Speaking on...
Mozambique demands compensation for South African xenophobic attacks
A number of Mozambican civil society organisations insist the government should demand compensation from the South African authorities for the damage suffered by Mozambican...
Arrests of xenophobic criminals in South Africa
Two South African miners accused of intimidating their African colleagues, mostly Mozambicans at the East Rand Proprietary Mines (EPRM) at Boksburg, near Johannesburg, have...
Mozambique : Macau and Portugal invest in banking
A new Mozambican bank with capital from China's special Administrative Region of Macau, as well as from Portugal and Mozambique, will open later this...
Mozambique murder trial continues
The trial before the Maputo City Court of six men accused of the 1999 attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva took an unexpected turn...
Zambia negotiates electricity from Mozambiquan dam
Negotiations are under way to supply electricity from the Cahora Bassa dam, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, to Zambia, according to a...