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National official blames HIV/AIDS on homosexuals

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

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...
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Mozambique’s largest food processing company on strike

About 400 workers of the Matola Industrial Company ( CIM), Mozambique's largest food processing company, went on strike Monday demanding higher wages and better...
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Fare reduction announced by Mozambique airline LAM

Reacting to the recent fall in international oil pri ces, Mozambique's publicly-owned airline, LAM, Saturday announced a fare reduction for its flights. According to...
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Mozambique : politician admits to being a dictator

Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has admitted that he is "a dictator" within his party, but...
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Aircraft from South African city of Durban crashes in Beira

Six people are known to have died when a light aircraft crashed in the central Mozambican city of Beira on Saturday. According to a...
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Thieves sabotage pylones in Gaza Province, Mozambique, leaving residents in darkness

The city of Xai-Xai, capital of the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, and the towns of Chibuto, Manjacaze and Chidenguele, went without electricity for...
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Zimbabwean Fidelity Life Assurance company to open branches in Mozambique and Swaziland

Zimbabwean life assurance firm Fidelity said Friday it had been granted a licence to open a subsidiary in Mozambique, and had also applied to...
Mugabe is a ‘political criminal’ says top foreign politician

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

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

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

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

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...
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Armed robbers in Mozambique shoot and kill and make away with sacks of cash

Four armed robbers Tuesday attacked a vehicle belong ing to a private security company along the Maputo Airport, shot dead one of the guards...
HIV Positive Mozambiquans faring better

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...
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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...
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Football : Côte d’Ivoire silences Mozambique in 2010 World Cup – African Nations Cup qualifiers

The Ivory Coast national team Sunday afternoon beat their opponents from Mozambique by a single goal in the 2010 World Cup / African Nations...
Arrests of xenophobic criminals in South Africa

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...
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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

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...
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Mozambique cuts power supplies to Zimbabwe

Mozambique is to cut power supplies to Zimbabwe by half to 100 megawatts from Friday (9May) due to maintenance work at its power station,...
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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...
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Crime on the rise in Mozambique

Crime in Mozambique is on the increase, according to Attorney-General Augusto Paulino. In his annual report Tuesday to the country's parliament, Paulino said the...
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Amnesty International raises alarm on Mozambique police killings

According to AFP Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday showing that Mozambique police were torturing and killing suspects without being bothered by the...
Murderer changes journalist killing story and blames another

Murderer changes journalist killing story and blames another

The man who led the death squad that murdered Mozambique's foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000, Monday changed his story and claimed...
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Africa to refuse cargo flights from China to Zimbabwe in their airspace

South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Thursday called on the governments of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia to deny overflight rights to cargo...
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Mozambique wants more time for demining

Mozambique is to present to the November meeting of the parties to the Ottawa Convention against anti-personnel land mines, a request to extend its...
Chinese arms ship not welcome in Africa

Chinese arms ship not welcome in Africa

Zimbabwean authorities yesterday said the cash-strapped government has a right to buy arms from any legal source as long as they are needed to...
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Zimbabwe minister admits Chinese arms import

Zimbabwe Monday confirmed a Chinese ship that was refused permission to unload its cargo in South Africa this week was carrying arms. Justice Minister...
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Mozambican and six others win environmental prizes

A Mozambican musician, Feliciano dos Santos, is one of this year's winners of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. A statement from the prize jury, received...